The NHA bunch of clowns.

Flirting Around

Flirting Around (5 February 1971–1993) was a Kentucky-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A specialist sprinter, he showed some promise when winning one of his three races as a two-year-old. In the following year he established himself as one of the best sprinters in France, winning four races including the Prix du Gros Chene, Prix de Meautry. As a four-year-old in 1975 raced only twice, but was rated the best sprinter in Europe after winning the Prix de Saint-Georges on his seasonal debut and then travelling to England to record a five-length victory in the King's Stand Stakes. He was retired immediately after his biggest win and became a successful breeding stallion in South Africa.

now we have a three yr old filly making a debut.

dunno how the owners got this thru???

Sylvester certain things just boggles ones mind this not the only one

Over The Air is running race 6 Worcester

...just saying

The mighty Wolf Power by far the best offspring of Flirting Around. Who can ever forget his devastating turn of foot and how he was disposed of under instructions of a top trainer in Kzn only for Ricky Maingard to condition the horse into one of the greats of the S.A. turf.

It was with a tinge of sadness that I discovered courtesy of pedigreequery that the great grey Wolf Power died in the USA in 2002 at the age of 24.

BIG BUCKS 15 time grade1 winner in the uk as recent as a year ago and some midden running in KZN

In the US you have ABC news network
In Australia there is ABC TV
then in SA you have the ABC racing forum

Everybody has a right to name what they own what they want

Bob Brogan wrote: BIG BUCKS 15 time grade1 winner in the uk as recent as a year ago and some midden running in KZN

Aah, but Big Buck's, UK's retired jumping champion, is Big buck's with an apostrophe .

Today, Golden Horn, was also big bucks to some .

Check out on Pedigreequery - in Australia there was a Sea Cottage registered not too long after ours and they had the audacity to vehemently complain about our Black Caviar.

There are lots of Nijinksy's and some Frankel's who made it onto Pedigreequery and probably many more who didnt.

I'm not saying its OK but it happens the world over not just SA.

Below is a link for all protected horse names

www.horseracingintfed.com/resources/NP_2015.pdf

The list of Protected Names is updated as follows :

1.- Racehorses :

a) Automatic addition of the names of the winners of the following 11 most important international races
for 3 y.o. and upwards :


South America (2) : - Gran Premio Carlos Pellegrini
- Grande Premio Brazil.

Asia (4) : - Melbourne Cup
- Dubai World Cup
- Hong Kong Cup
- Japan Cup

Europe (3) : - Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
- King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes
- Irish Champion Stakes.

USA (2) : - Breeders’ Cup Classic
- Breeders’ Cup Turf.

b) Countries can propose to the IFHA Executive Council for approval, a maximum of 3 additional names
per year of racehorses whose form justifies such a protection. Each such request must be supported
by the following information:



the name of the horse
sex
colour
country of birth
the year of its birth
the name of the sire
the name of the dam
the name of the dam’s sire


with the suffix


Justification for the request
Race record.


2. - Breeding stock :

Protection is given to :


-Broodmares who have produced at least two Group 1 winners and one other Black Type winner.

-Stallions who have produced at least 15 individual Group 1 winners.

Only those Group 1 races listed under Part I of the International Cataloguing Standards would qualify for consideration.

The Secretariat of the International Stud Book Committee will update this list on a quarterly basis.

b) Countries can propose to the ISBC for approval, a maximum of 3 additional names per year of broodmares and stallions whose record at stud justifies such protection. Each such request must be supported by the following information:
- the name of the horse
- sex
- colour
- country of birth
- the year of its birth
- the name of the sire, with suffix
- the name of the dam, with suffix
- the name of the dam’s sire, with suffix
- Justification for the request
- Progeny record

technically the horse can have the same name if he is born in a different country and out of a different sire+dam.
But if in the same country, you can only use the same name again once the original horse has died (exact spelling match).
Special cases such as BLACK CAVIAR or FRANKEL etc have to be applied for via route already mentioned above.

ahem, WOLF POWER and OVER THE AIR can hardly be deemed global legendary horses that justify a security on the name?

ps, can anyone shed light on why horses change names once they go racing in the East?

Don wrote: technically the horse can have the same name if he is born in a different country and out of a different sire+dam.
But if in the same country, you can only use the same name again once the original horse has died (exact spelling match).
Special cases such as BLACK CAVIAR or FRANKEL etc have to be applied for via route already mentioned above.

ahem, WOLF POWER and OVER THE AIR can hardly be deemed global legendary horses that justify a security on the name?

Wolf Power is on the protected name list, but I dont know if it is the South African one. End of the day our NHA suppose to submit the names in. I never go through the whole list but, Horse Chestnut and Pocket Power not in there. I did see Empress Club and Politician though.