As regular readers will know, we like to keep abreast of good names in this blog. For this reason, we should salute a winner at Wolverhampton on Friday night: Welease Bwian. His trainer Stuart Williams not only has the distinction of being one of the very best trainers in Britain, but also of having trained some very memorably-named gallopers over the years. And Welease Bwian, who was getting off the mark at the fifth attempt, has to go straight to the top of Stuart's charts, having taken his name from one of the funniest of the very many very funny scenes in 'Life of Brian'. Under normal circumstances, Welease Bwian would get a special names' chapter all to himself, but on this occasion he's going to have to share it, because The Broken Shore is set to make her debut at Gosford on Wednesday. She's a two-year-old filly
by Hussonet and is the latest foal of Shantha's Choice, a daughter of Canny Lad (pictured at the top) who is best known as the dam of the champion racehorse and champion sire Redoute's Choice (pictured in the second illustration) as well as of his Group One-winning full-brother Platinum Scissors and half-brother Manhattan Rain. And what's special about that (apart from the pedigree)? Well, as I hope that you know, The Broken Shore is one of Peter Temple's outstanding novels. If you haven't read it, I urge you to do so - and if you have, why not read it again? I enjoyed it just as much the second time around, and there aren't many novels which I've read twice. So let's hope that this filly goes on to be a champion, because her connections have certainly given her a mighty name to live up to.
As regular readers will know, we like to keep abreast of good names in this blog. For this reason, we should salute a winner at Wolverhampton on Friday night: Welease Bwian. His trainer Stuart Williams not only has the distinction of being one of the very best trainers in Britain, but also of having trained some very memorably-named gallopers over the years. And Welease Bwian, who was getting off the mark at the fifth attempt, has to go straight to the top of Stuart's charts, having taken his name from one of the funniest of the very many very funny scenes in 'Life of Brian'. Under normal circumstances, Welease Bwian would get a special names' chapter all to himself, but on this occasion he's going to have to share it, because The Broken Shore is set to make her debut at Gosford on Wednesday. She's a two-year-old filly 
by Hussonet and is the latest foal of Shantha's Choice, a daughter of Canny Lad (pictured at the top) who is best known as the dam of the champion racehorse and champion sire Redoute's Choice (pictured in the second illustration) as well as of his Group One-winning full-brother Platinum Scissors and half-brother Manhattan Rain. And what's special about that (apart from the pedigree)? Well, as I hope that you know, The Broken Shore is one of Peter Temple's outstanding novels. If you haven't read it, I urge you to do so - and if you have, why not read it again? I enjoyed it just as much the second time around, and there aren't many novels which I've read twice. So let's hope that this filly goes on to be a champion, because her connections have certainly given her a mighty name to live up to. 
2 comments:
Lets hope that The Broken Shore can cashin (pun intended) on lots of good fortune!!
I do not know if the welease bwian campaign was successful. If it was maybe we could have a wepeal the whip wules with wegard to the wecent new wegulations!
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