Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's Day. Show all posts

February 14, 2011

Love Horse Names

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! In honor of the day of Love today's post is all about horses who have Heart, Sweet, Candy,Chocolate, Flowers and/or Love in them. Since there are many, many horses with those words in their names, I'm going to be focusing on a handful of these horses.

Here they are!

Love (IRE) 1998 gelding Royal Academy x Kentmere (FR)- there are several horses named Love, but I chose this one since well the Irish are lucky. Love started 23 times between England and his native Ireland. However, he wasn't that successful with only 2 wins in those 23 starts and only could manage hit the board once with a third place finish. His sire of course is a half to Terlingua the dam of Storm Cat.

Flower Bowl 1952 filly Alibhai (GB) x Flower Bed- What can be said about this wonderful filly other then not only was she a good race horse, but excellent in the shed. She ran 32 times winning seven of those including the Delaware Handicap. As a broodmare, she threw Hall of Famer Bowl of Flowers, and supersires Graustark and His Majesty.

Sweet Life 1996 filly Kris S. x Symbolically- A decent runner with 13 starts and 4 wins including a win in the Providencia. However, like Flower Bowl it would be as a broodmare where she would shine. She is one of the few mares (Primal Force being another one) to throw two Breeders' Cup champions. Sweet Catomine who won the 2004 Juvenile Fillies and Life is Sweet who won the 2009 Ladies Classic.

Chocolate Candy 2006 colt Candy Ride (ARG) x Crownette- The one horse whose name is made up of two words that are required to be on this list. It's interesting to point out that he was bred and owned by Jenny Craig, as in yes THAT Jenny Craig. Dispite his undiet name, he comes from a very regal pedigree. His sire was undefeated in his native Argentina and here in the US. His dam is out of an Alydar mare who happens to be a half sister to Alydar's arch rival Affirmed. To top it off his broodmare sire won the Triple Crown undefeated (the only one to do so). CC has started 17 times with 4 wins, however 3 of those wins came in stakes races. An announcement to where he will start his 2011 season should be coming soon.

Heart Shaped 2006 filly Storm Cat x Twenty Eight Carat- A half sister to AP Valentine who finished 2nd in the Preakness and Belmont. Heart Shaped won only once in her 6 starts, but did finish second in the inagural Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

Honorble Mentions: Candy Ride (ARG), Life is Sweet, Sweet Catomine, Hearted.