“Free to Good Home,” “Sir Limps-A-Lot,” “Why’s Everyone Running So Fast?”
All excellent names for not-so-excellent race horses. (You can see the full list that Tom recently read on the show, right here.)
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Your in avoiding the glue factory,
Tom, Ray, and all of us at Car Talk Plaza
Baby Steps
Hesitation
Just Grazing
Group Hug
Asthmatic
Hop-along
Lead Belly
Today’s Special
Uphill All the Way
Coal Miner’s Daughter
16 Tons
Rotunda
Fiat/Chrysler and his stable mate Government Motors
Actual name of a horse which raced, Half Fast.
FLATLINE
DOGCHOW
THESE
Glue Factory
Hoof Hearted
Old Card Table (legs fold under)
you win.
For a harness-racing horse: “hugs+kisses.”
(For those who’ve read a racing form, “X” means “broke stride,” and “O” means “ran outside”–i.e. wide. So this would be a horse that was always breaking stride and/or running wide on the turns.)
Eighth Horse
Aren’t they limited to 13 letters in the name?
Daddy’s Little Tax Deduction
Ivana Tinkles
Hooves o’ Concrete
Spell It : "Hors D’oeuvres"
Pronounce It: "Horse Doovers"
CSA
Jockey Itch
CSA