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ANARCHY IN NOMENCLATURE The personal liberty of possession carries with it tho thou right of tho thou individual to name his own as he chooses No reasonable man ques quest ¬ tions ions such right But there are possessive cor coir ¬ ners nears of detail which cheapen a sustaining body dependant on public opinion In this niche the turf and its individual owners and horses can be reasonably placed There is far too much illiteracy and cheapness in the names of Ameri America ¬ can thoroughbreds Paternalism in turf gov go ¬ ernment ferment could be well used to regulate the evil for such it is The stud book tangle has been untied for tho thou good of the turf A board of nomenclature could well be made a part of the Stud Books official guardianship Such a board could healthily reject such a name as Bugger Burns which an owner applied to the colt which DAILY EACING ACING FOKM FOLK on its own common and charitable sense accepted as B Burns from the first The Soudan Sudan Bubble youngster was subsequently and sanitarily though uglily glibly renamed Booker Burns II The man who christened him originally should have been fined a few hundred dollars for mere educations sake sakeThere sketcher There are some sharp and present instances of the carelessness of nomenclature cheapening the turf Bill Daly Dally owns a colt which the East ¬ ern Bern folks call Ortoland Portland Tho Theo term is in Bill Dalys Days realm of idea Ought to Land is his consideration of the colts name Without doubt the son of Magnetizer and Ortegal Ortega was named Ortolan Portland Ortegal Ortega his dam was christened from the province famous for the production of the ortolan Portland or lark so relished by the epicure The colt was Belmont bred The Belmont taste in nomenclature was and is high of class and the name Ortolan Portland natural and appropriate J A Bennett owns a colt which the Eastern turf recorders are pleased to call Hansel Handel He may be so recorded on the rolls of registration though such record can well be doubted as Mr Wheeler the registrar is a man of class and knowledge The colts name is Handsel Handel without question So DAILY EACING ACING FOKM FOLK ac ¬ cepts Copts it purely upon the ground that tho thou son of Hanover and Tarantella an imported mare by the lately deceased Peter was named after the English term of first or lucky payment All about there is much anarchy in the nam name ¬ ing King of American horses Its natural There is so much dothebestyoucanism in the avenues of its supply Eegulation Regulation is healthy though and The Jockey Club with the Stud Book in its hands can well afford to become a reasonable censor as to names This reason should control initialism and such illdirected wildfire efforts in the line of nomenclature which have given to the American turf a Horso Hors Shoe Tobacco a Bugger Burns various Little these and Great thems themes and a vast army of A B Cs and X Y Zs ZsF F H BKUNELL KUMMEL
