Why you can't give your Thoroughbred racehorse an obscene name

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Why you can't give your Thoroughbred an obscene name.
By T.D. Thornton
Posted Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007, at 12:51 PM ET
Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty. Click image to expand.

Earlier this year, a man named Andy Hillis decided to christen his racehorse Nutzapper. A Tonight Show guest had used the term when referring, jokingly, to a male contraceptive; since his horse had been gelded, Hillis thought he had a good fit. But naming a Thoroughbred isn't as simple as coming up with a good double-entendre


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