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Why Are Racehorse Names So Bad?

In this paper we shall do two things. 1) prove that race horse names are unforgivably lame. 2) conclusively determine, through deductive proof, why 1) is true.

The below table of actual horse names is proof of 1)

Name notes...
Buckpasser
Al Hattab
Danzatame
Precise End
Thunder Puddles
Tomorrows Cat
Talc
Unadilla
Coxsackie
Vice Regent
Corsage
Third Wife
Love From The Air
Spectaculardynasty
I Be Classy
Thrillerfrommanila
Michael's Lead
Moment of Space
Snifter
Iodine
Referee Bob
Glenda Smile
In Newt's Corner
Sovereign Rip Torn
Boots On Sunday
Adif
Hamatress
Bartok
Fabulous Champ
Free House
I Can Fly
Mountain Bike
Phonetics
Undercover Man


And now to fulfill 2). In an earlier paper by Moreau (1995), it was shown that the idle class is statistically the least creative and most myopic population, and it was further shown in a paper by Kendrick et al. (2000) that in certain closed systems, successive generations of a taxonomy become increasingly more lame. By proving that race horse naming is not such a taxonomy, I will show that its members are so fucking stupid solely due to the Moreau Effect (1995).

Click here to see a completely random computer generated list of corresponding race horse names that kick these names' ass!

 


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