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THE NAMING OF RACE HORSES HORSESThe The naming of race lioraes has always been per ¬ plexing to turfmen Annually several thousand colts and Billies have to be namvd and the Jockey Club requires that names for these youngsters must be tiled for registration on rMsirch 1 of their twoyear old season Failure to comply costs an owner 50 when he does apply after that late lateThe The Jockey Club also does not permit the use of a name that lias been registered within five years but back of this period an owner can take any name for present use that is within the lids of the stud books if he so chooses choosesOf Of late years none of the great stables has had the uniformity in names that marked the strings of the noted turfmen of days long since past and gone The late Pierre Lorillard the millionaire tobacco manufacturer l estowed on his great horses Indian names such as Iroquois Parole Sachem Pappoose Pequot and Powluittan while J W Hunt Ueynphls the noted Kentucky clubman chose famous musicians and musical terms for names for his most brilliant race Itorses of vvhich Falsetto the sire of The Picket ami Sir Hnon and Mendelssohn were falrr samples Feu stables have ever raced that were as fitly named as the horses owned l y the late Charles Fleischmann of Cincinnati and his son Julius for1 iner mayor of the Queen City It has always been understood that Mrs Julius FleischtiKinn performed this service for her fatherinlaw and husband Some of the names she selected were surely hard to heat For Instance she called a colt out of Prome ¬ nade Stroller and Smart Set was picked by her for a colt out of Fashionable FashionableJ J E Madden has at times selected names that fitted as well as those selected by Mrs Fleischmann as above noted For example he named the produce of Blissful Single Life Good Luck was another bright name lie selected as that son of Sandringham is out of Pockctplece and Skilful Jackfull Acefull and Wltfnll the get of imported Mirthful were all well named namedJ J R ICeene has also struck it happily in naming some of the get of Ben Brush Birch Broom Brush By and Sweep all being by that Suburban Handicap winner winnerThe The late Major B G Thomas once owned the stallion King Ban and he adopted the form of naming the get of that English horse with a Ban prefix and Ban Fox Ban Chief Ban Himyar Ban bridge iBanburg and others of their like are as a result recorded in the racing guides and stud hooks hooksIt It perhaps is not known to racegoers of today that there was an early Hamburg of about as much racing reputation in his day as that enjoyed in more recent years liy Harry Payne Whitneys celebrated tx n of Hanover of tin same name The early Ham ¬ burg raced In 1809 and a season or two later and sold as a threeyearold for 10000 an enormous figure for a colt of that age to fetch in those days St Louis GlobeDemocrat
