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FRENCH WRITER ON NAMES Viator Discusses Origins of Horse HorseCognomens Cognomens in Naming of ofRoyal Royal Colt Viator veteran turf commentator of La Jockey is deeply ntenested in the subject of horse nomenclature and from time to time has something to say in this connection which is of interest in otner countries than his own A few of his recent comments on this subject are reproduced below belowThe The King of England has just named one of his twoyearolds Runnymede This is the name of the sire of Morvich the fallen Idol of the American turf His Mnjesty hopes no doubt that this repetition wilt bring luck to his colt And he needs a little luck for the last year has once more been a dis ¬ astrous one for the royal colors colorsThe The new Runnymede is a son of Hurry On and Saints Mead and he seems to owe his name to a more or less ingenious adaptation of the consonantal sounds in the names of his sire and dam damIn In the same number of the English cal ¬ endar which records the naming of this colt another royal youngster is given a cogno ¬ men This is King Alfonsos Mail Coach a son of Great Sport and Vanish Coaching is indeed a great sport that has vanished But this is a repetition repetitionThe The first Mail Coach was an excellent Belgian horse owned by the Marquis de Buisseret and he sired some good colts himself notably Mail Top which should have won all the classics of his native turf but was regularly bepten by a head in each of them by Palmares thanks to the superior horsemanship of th ° latters jockey jockeyMail Mail Coach lived in the age of vehicles at Seneffe Some of bis contemporaries were Tapecu Troika and Fiacre All names for horsedrawn vehicles in different languages languagesA A recent name bestowed on a colt in Eng ¬ land is Valclar You do not know what that means and neither do I But the colt is by Clarissimus and Valkyr There are plenty of such names whose origin is difficult to find There was once a Merese This was a reproduction of the attempt of the breed ¬ ers grandson to pronounce the name of his aunt Therese Lally the celebrated Italian sire which was a favorite for the Epsom Derby derived his name from the nickname applied to Lionel Monckton the English mu ¬ sician Miss Anna Bibelott and Sillette were the nicknames of the grandnieces of Captain Williams Today all three lire great grandmothers the wives of Belgian senators I believe believePotSo PotSo the early forerunner of Pomme de Terre owed the bizarre orthography of his name to a stable boy who wrote it thus on the door of his stall the day the owner christened him
