Skinny bird
Mar 1st, 2009 by Bert
It was a busy day with the kids today, although I did manage to find the time to back a couple of losers.
We took the boys to the theatre to see the pantomime “Pirate School” - all good fun. At one point the pirate captain asked the audience which countries they had been to. One little boy shouted out “Germany” - “Arrr - we’ve been there” he said. The next little boy shouted out “Ireland” - “Arrrr - been there”. The third little boy shouted “Butlins”! The captain did well to keep a straight face.
Later I was watching Mary Poppins with the girls, and it got to the bit where Jane and Michael have gone to the bank with their father. Michael starts shouting and he triggers a panic run on the bank. Dora, who is 6, asked what was going on. “They’re scared of a credit crunch” explained Maddy (8), knowingly.
I got a photo through of Peintre D’Argent this morning;
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There are a couple of things to look at here.
Firstly she is a skinny type, consistent with the theory that she will be a stayer.
Secondly her legs. From this picture she looks to have a pretty long stride (as suggested by Nicky) and she’s bending her knees plenty. Her hooves, front and back, are almost horizontal to the ground. I’m no expert but it looks like a decent soft ground action, and again that’s consistent with the feedback we have from Nicky.
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Bert,
Off to Toms on Saturday to see our Captain Rio filly. I’m very excited to see her progress, Tom reports she is finding her work easy and may be an early two year old. We need to name her also…. the blood line from her Dams all have V’s as a start so I’m not sure if we should follow this, are there any rules you follow when naming Bert?
Hopefully some of your string we’ll be working with her for me to have a look at. Particularly Max One two three as I was very interested to hear your hope for it this year.
Jon,
I see what you mean about the Vs, although none of the siblings have names beginning with V.
I don’t have any hard and fast rules for naming horses. If there’s a nice way to combine dam and sire in one name then go for it, but often it isn’t easy. I generally come up with a quick shortlist, chew on it for a day or two and settle on the one that feels best. Verio or Rarefy are possible choices on the name combining basis.
Max is quite tricky and she normally works on her own - she’ll be out early, perhaps on the first day of the season proper.
Jon
I don’t suppose the horse’s dam is German bred? It’s a little known fact that all horses bred from a German dam have to have a name starting with the same letter as the initial letter of the Dam’s name.
If the dam isn’t German then just ignore me!
Good luck with the horse anyway.