Evening star., 1935-02-03

"lightning" in Javanese. And could Phar Lap
run to such a name?
Kerry Patch? Lee Rosenberg with excel
lent choice named him after the boyhood dis
trict across the tracks" in which he had lived
in st. Louis. And that he did SO rightly may
be suggested from the fact Kerry Patch's sire
and dam were Desperate Desmond and Polly
McWiggles.
CEVERAL years ago, the success Of Phar
- Lap caused a number of horses to be i'm
ported for Winter racing at Aqua Caliente
There was Pillow Fight, from Australia, son
Of Night Raid Phar Laps sire) and Week End.
Another was Boy Painter, an English horse
and son of the great Gainsborough Youu
remember that the great English painter.
Gainsborough, painted the immortal picture
which we call 1.-THE Blue Boy"
Cavalcade, Of course, was named for the play
and movie of that name. Mata Hari is q
daughter of War Woman she by Man O. War,
while Singing Wood came by his whimsical
title from the fact that his sire and dame were
imported Royal Minstrel and Glade.
What name could be more appropriate for
q son Of American Flag and Golden Melody
than National Anthem? Remember how long
Noah was in the Ark? Then what's the matter
with Forty Days as name for a son of Noah?
And will you approve Fountain Pen as a title
for a son of Scribble?
Some names often seem absurd. and yet they
may have been suggested by names Of the
son Of Apprehension. Fuss Budget is daugh-
ter Of Quarrel, the dam of Good and Hot Is
Pepper Tea, and Nutting is a daughter of Pea
nuts. Two ohsprings of the mare Pancake are
Hot Cake and Hot Griddle
One Of the easiest and most popular methods
OF selecting names is the invention of titles
through combinations with the names of sire
and dam. Invented names are not so apt to be
rejected, and also supply memory key to the
horses breeding
The rather awkward name, Huonoras Hat,
Is such title, and was suggested by her breed
ing, she being by Top Hat, out of Huonora.
And Huonora was, in her turn, daughter of
the stallion Huon.
. EVERSING the syllables in the name se
~ Sir Galahad III incidentally he is o
French stallion and the third of that line In
this country produced the name Hadagal for
his son. Happy Knot is a son Of Happy Argo
and Knot, and Etonardo Is q son Of the swift
Leonardo II and Eton Girl.
A sense Of humor often appears in the names
OF horses. Thus, Top Row is a son of Peanuts
and Ogle Is daughter of Sly Glance The
offspring of q mating between Happy Argo and
Good Gill was named Happy Find by a rather
cynical owner.
Then there is the story that went the rounds
about night foray by the imported stallion
Bright knight. which has his haras at the Aud
ley Farm, ancestral home of Nellie Custis
Washingtons ward. The story goes Bright
Knight escaped from his quarters one night.
jumped fence and went to court mare named
Ballet Dancer. We cannot personally vouch
for the story, but the offspring of their mating
was named Royal Blunder
Horses many times run to their names.
though some do not. AS examples of the former
consider that great trio of distance titans, Ex-
terminator, Crusader and Reign Count Great
names!-great horses! And there was Man o.
War, supreme horse of the twentieth century
born about the time of our entrance into the
Great War. His only defeat incidentally came
from horse named Upset.
England also had a Man O. War. He WAS
actually killer of the worst kind He could
never be trained, once killed a horse badly in.
jured number of handlers and was continu.
ally menace to man and beast. Yet, in tho
STUD, ne was an unsurpassed success as a breeder
OF steeplechase horses and was the sire of the
immortal Manifesto. ... ... a.. =.