The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-30
HORSEMEN WORRIED
Busy Picking Names for the
Young Racers.
HARDER THAN It APPEARS
In Case of u Duplicate Name Is Re-
turned and Owner Requested 10
Common Sense system Il Popular
as Names are Always vel Chosen.

Washington racegoers know little Of
some highly important proceedings. which
are being transacted at the Jockey Cubs
headquarters in New York.
Aany stakes TO close on Tuesday arc
receiving the attention of horse owners,
but il is the matter Of naming their COM
ing two-year-olds that is causing horse
men no little time and worry. There are
about 1900 thoroushbreds registered with
the Jockey Club euch year Most OF these
are given names. The rules Of racing say
that all horses must nave "a name 10y
March Of each year, under penalty Of "a
fine Of $50
Naturally. hOrsemen try TO comply with
the rules, and they are now and viii be
for the next ten weeks sending 20 the
Jockey Club Office names which they or
their friends think appropriate Very
often q duplicate to the name OF some
horse now or for the last FIVE years on
the turf IS chosen. This IS sent back to
the owner. who is requested 10 select an
other. Perhaps the substitute name is
also already claimed. In such cases the
name OF the horse IS left blank until he
may start. OF else the registrar is request
ed to exercise his discretion and confer a
suitable name on the youngster Very
often these efforts are good. but some
times they are open 10 criticism. SIN,
when the great multiplicity Of horses each
year is considered. the labors OF both
horse owners and registrar are commend
able
Keene's Names Appropriate.
August Belmont almost invariably
names his youngsters early in life. some
times before they are a year old. James
r. KeeHe. is also prompt with his names.
and a glance over the list of 1868 two
year-olds viii show that either Mr.. Keene
or some one close 10 him expends no little
time and thought in the matter Of names.
Stepping Stone out Of Running Stream
IS one OF the neatest Veil by Disguise is
another. Yorkist. out Of White Rose, Is
still another. Then come very good in
stances In Zambesi, out Of Rhodesia:
Claude DUval out of Starlight; Court
Dress. by Disguise. out OF Hampton Court.
Fichu, by Collar. GTcua Green, out Of
Runaway Girl, Grimaldi, out Of Calico,
and "a score Of others The publication Of
the names o. Mr.. Keene's two-year-Olds
IS always awaited with pleasurable autici-
patton. as they are always well chosen
Harry Payne WhiJueys list Of young
stess also furnishes some weIl-u8med
ones. such as Old Faithful. out of Semper
Fide.e. Meddlesome Boy, by Meddler.
Diula Ken. out Of Forget. Little Boy
Blue. out OF Bonnie Blue, Ptarmigan. out
OF Partridge. Rh0d0dendrOn, by Nasrur-
uum; Siper out OF Cinderella, and others.
IT is not easy season after season 20
confer entirely satisfactory names. and
a suggestion made by T. G. Patuson, of
Toronto. that the Jockey Club should re-
tain the service Of two or three bright
young college graduates and let them eX-
ercise their arts and their education by
appropriate names for suggested young
STEERS is not a bad scheme Il need not
follow that their names should be adopt
ed; their vocation would be 20 furnish q
list OF appropriate ones 10 the owners,
who would do the selecting
Name Of a Friend.
BY this means some Of the atrocities Of
the Western turf would never achieve
immortality. The late Mr.. Withers was
happy fin many Of the names NE con-
ferred upon his horses. Very often, when
man hopes that some particularly prom
Using colt IS given the name Of a friend
or the name Of his home farm. his hopes
arc dashed. and the expected world beater
turns out "a bitter disappointment.
MT. Pattisou relates that be sat next
70 a titled English lady at dinner one
night recently who had been IN the habit
OF naming her friends race horses. just
before she left England this lady had
named "a colt by Wise Man OF Red Prince,
out of Acceptable Wise Child" She
then paused for Mr.. Pattison's comment
He caught on then caught his breath,
and blushed as he murmured, Very good
indeed" Then he wondered what The
grand danes of a previous generation
would have thought
Many Of the names OF race horses Of
the day have no meaning although they
of course, at once Indicate their breeding
as in the case with Salvidere by Belvi-
Gcre, out of SaIHe NIcCleuand. An 81
stance Of the far fetched In nomenclature
is given in the name of a colt called Bad
Potato lie was a son OF BOdsw0rth and
Beehive. A beehive is a bee holder \
behOlder is a spectator. \ specked later
is a bad later.
The real reason why the name OF
HUitZilOpOChtI was given 10 a colt by
Russell. out Of CcTtameu. was because each
one of several names which had been Eug-
Eested Tor him had already been taken.
Then it was that the Messrs Morris de
cjded to call him by name which was
destined to crack the jaws Of the book
makers and to cause poor Jack Adler.
the official announcer. many a sIeep.eSs
night whenever he saw the name iu the
list of entries.
In old days of the English turf the
layers made "Abscess-of- the-Jaw," out OF
Abbess de Jourard, and called Chatta-
noOga "Chat-and-NO-GO." Some awful in
stances of turf nomenclature of old days
is Here / Go With Ny Eye Out" Need
less TO say, under the vigilance OF the
jockey clubs IN both countries. such