{"id":169,"date":"2007-03-31T09:15:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2007-03-31T22:37:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T04:37:38","slug":"in-spring-thoughts-turn-to-horse-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"In spring, thoughts turn to . . . horse names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"floatright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/bio_barbaro.jpg\" \/>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&#038;keywords=0970963947&#038;tag=fifthlegpublishi&#038;index=books&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Kentucky Derby<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=fifthlegpublishi&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> just around the bend, <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> senior writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2Fs%3Furl%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps%26field-keywords%3Dfrank%2Bdeford%26Go.x%3D0%26Go.y%3D0%26Go%3DGo&#038;tag=fifthlegpublishi&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Frank DeFord<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=fifthlegpublishi&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> invited National Public Radio listeners to suggest names for the younger siblings of 2006 Derby winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&#038;keywords=0061284858&#038;tag=sallyharrison-20&#038;index=blended&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Barbaro<\/a>. You can <a title=\"Naming Barbaro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=7381274\" target=\"_blank\">hear<\/a> how he encouraged listeners to play off the names of Barbaro&#8217;s sire, Dynaformer, and dam, La Ville Rouge, and how he planned to pass along any good ideas to Barbaro&#8217;s owner, Gretchen Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Horse owners often point out how hard it is to win a major event in any discipline. Breeders know that it&#8217;s not much\u00a0easier to come up with a good, original\u00a0name, especially considering that more than 5 million Thoroughbreds and Quarter \u00a0Horses have been foaled in North America in the past half century.<\/p>\n<p>DeFord announced his favorite names for Barbaro&#8217;s siblings\u00a0&#8212; from more than 2,000 submissions &#8212; in a <a title=\"Names for Barbaro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=7739104\" target=\"_blank\">follow-up commentary<\/a>. He received some good suggestions, but one of the best had to be one that stepped outside of DeFord&#8217;s guidelines: &#8220;Letmrsjacksondoit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Kentucky Derby just around the bend, Sports Illustrated senior writer Frank DeFord invited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horse-world","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}