2 horses with same name run this week in south africa

ireland runs for bill human in kimberly race 3 tomorrow and ireland bred in brazil runs for gavin zyl tuesday night race 3 at turfontein...take the treble with ireland to win the 6 nations...must have slipped the attention of the nhra as ireland owned by mrs o could easily land up running in kimberly against the other ireland..

Confusing as hell for the punters aswell,we have a few in the UK plum pudding the 3m chaser and the other a front running listed class miler.

Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe, although the last i heard one of the Zimbabwe`s was running loose on an MOD shooting range..

Hibs, to be honest and with no disrespect to the owners......
I think there is probably only 1 Zimbabwe running in England now.

Yep Tommy,but lets hope its hiding in a wood somewhere

Its been a while now

Ireland must have slipped through the net as on occasions we have submitted a name to be informed "has already been used"

As far as Zimbabwe I am sure he/she is comparing notes with Shergar?

one leg in

If the horse from Brazil was named before the arrived in SA, and the South African bred horse had his name approved before the Brazillian horse arrived, both names will stand. The brazillian horse will have his country's abreviation as a suffix after his name.

However the NHRA recycles names every 20 years, so there could be two horses bred in SA, with the same name, but running 20 years apart. For example, George Tambourlas trained a little grey mare by Port Merion, called Grand National. In 2008, the NHRA approved the name for another filly, who is by National Assembley. Not sure if she's run yet though.

The NHRA publish a booklet every year of the names that are NOT available at that time. It's about an inch thick!

pirates, second leg in... hope you collect...

Good calls Pirates

Amazon memories ruined by the above policy

No2son will be gutted to see Wayward Lad running at Turffontein today