Name for racehorse.

[Clodagh]

So you lot have come up with excellent suggestions over the years. Now I’m picking those brains!
I have a share in a store horse who will be going into training in the New Year and so it is time to think about a name for him.
He is a bay gelding by Elusive Pimpernel and out of Music on D Waters. As an aside many of the same owners had a horse called Pisgah Pike, who is his half brother.
Over to you…

 

[Clodagh]

Water Wolf is a nickname for pike. But no nod to Dad there.

 

[OrangeAndLemon]

Invisible Melody
Into the Fire (song from the Scarlet Pimpernel)
Wildhorn Rhapsody (Wildhorn is composer of Scarlet Pimpernel)

 

[Amy May In A Manger]

Elusive Waters

 

[Cowpony]

Missing Handel

 

[Carrottom]

Seeking a tune

 

[Amy May In A Manger]

Seeking a tune

I love that.

 

[Jenko109]

Clint.

 

[I'm Dun]

Water Wolf is a nickname for pike. But no nod to Dad there.

Elusive Water Wolf?

 

[Beausmate]

Barry

 

[Beausmate]

El Musod

 

[millikins]

Esox lucius is the Northern pike, can you do something with that? Unconnected but my chosen name for a racehorse should I ever own one would be Raskolnikov.

 

[Meredith]

Rhapsody in Scarlet

 

[Glitter is Fun]

Ceol na Mara

(Means music of the sea or waters)

 

[IrishMilo]

Elusive Waters

This was going to be my suggestion!

 

[ihatework]

Scarlet Sea

 

[FionaMc]

Elusive Catch / Elude the Catch

 

[HeresHoping]

Music on D Waters, when said out loud, sounds Jamaican although it is probably a play on Irish pronunciation. You could have
We Be Jammin

Sea Wolf
Lad in Red (boom tish!)

But...

So, the mare's name is a nod to a poem by Byron (her sire) called Stanzas for Music which compares a woman's voice to ''Music on the waters'

Byron mentions fish in Don Juan. But there are lots of them. However what about 'Childe Harold'? There are lots of references to water and music in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Which is also about a disillusioned young nobleman. A brooding, alienated figure who provides a means for Byron to comment on war ... bear with me... which brings me to that Damned Elusive Pimpernel.

 

[LadyGascoyne]

"They seek him here, they seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in heaven or is he in hell?
That demned elusive Pimpernel."


I suggest...


Where's Percy?

 

[rabatsa]

Shy music

 

[sky1000]

Secret sonata

 

[xDundryx]

Just off the subject of names, our gelding is by Elusive Pimpernel, his temperament is phenomenal! he is the sweetest, kindest, most chill horse we have ever had, with a massive stride and one hell of a jump! (He was just a bit too chill for pointing)

 

[humblepie]

Elusive Waters

My choice as my horse’s name is done the same way from his parents’ names.

 

[pistolpete]

Aquatic Melody