Unbelievable Winning Name, Daily Racing Form, 1949-06-11

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Unbelievable Winning Name LEXINGTON, Ky., June 10.— Domingo Bures, 308 Canada Street, Havana, Cuba, submitted the "winning name for the suckling full brother to Citation in the contest conducted by The Thoroughbred Record, the local weekly breeding journal. The infant son of Bull Lea — Hydroplane II., by Hyperion, will be known as Unbelievable. More than 20,000 names were submitted from every state in the country and many foreign lands, as well, among them Italy, Germany, England, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Australia. Bures was the only person offering enngaerWarrenrjgl wif e of the proprietor of the Calumet Farm breeding establishment and racing stable, was sole judge of the contest. The name has J?een .approyedjjjr The_ Jockey Club


Persistent Link: https://drf.uky.edu/catalog/1940s/drf1949061101/drf1949061101_6_2
Local Identifier: drf1949061101_6_2
Library of Congress Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/unk82075800