Help Please - Wedding Table Plan

hucklebuck

Hi folks,

I am getting married in July to a lucky, lucky lady:P and I have been allowed to do the table plans. As people are funny creatures so a lot of weddings don't number tables as some people take offence if they are at table 20.

With this in mind I am going to name the tables after horses that have won me a few bob and given me great memories/ shivers even now, along with a few greats. Only a few of the guests watch racing so I thought it would be a good idea to do a montage which we can loop on the tv, where the pre dinner drinks will be so people can put a long face to the table name!! The problem will be getting the footage of the older horses, I am starting with these and would appreciate any suggestions:

Sea The Stars (top table)
Arkle
Kauto Star
Denman
Monets Garden
George Washington
Lough Derg
Mon Mome
Zarkava
Gallileo
Northern Dancer
Nijinsky
Imperial Commander
Hurricane Fly
Moscow Flyer
Shergar
Quija Board

Your suggestions please .

I will gladly share the footage I root out with people who help.

UrbanSea

Is it links you're looking for hucklebuck?

decies

The most obvious one for wedding ??????? Beef or salmon!!

trebor28

Istabraaq?
Dawn Run.
Best Mate.

hucklebuck

UrbanSea wrote: »

Is it links you're looking for hucklebuck?

Just names thanks Urban, I am a patient hoor so I will find them if they are out there.

LFC5Times

Montjeu
Rock of Gibraltar
Giants Causeway

Nulty

Nearly

Nulty

I like sires -

Eclipse
Saddlers Wells
Northern Dancer

Urban Sea?

Morgans

Desert Orchid needs to be there. Dayjur's nunthorpe and Arazi Breeders Cup are still the two most electrying performances that Ive seen. Frankel not too far behind.

Urban Sea was a mare, a proper one at that.

Dayjur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gjSz4xaUak
Arazi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNZn919v6BU&feature=related
Desert Orchid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6FfMeDkiw
Moscow Flyers tingle Creek also.

Nulty

I know she was a mare, just sticking her in with the sires cause she is arguably a more successful broodmare than a race horse despite winning the Arc. To produce 2 horses of Galileo and STS calibre, She'd want to have been STS to better that achievement.

UrbanSea

I second Urban Sea.

Try a few names that people won't be able to pronounce after a few beers.
Jumbajukiba comes to mind.

UrbanSea

Nulty wrote: »

I know she was a mare, just sticking her in with the sires cause she is arguably a more successful broodmare than a race horse despite winning the Arc. To produce 2 horses of Galileo and STS calibre, She'd want to have been STS to better that achievement.

Black Sam Bellamy wasn't a half bad horse and will be a nice national hunt stallion aswell I'd say. Samain already looks good.

trebor28

how about 'Dont Be Bitin', for the laugh obviously!

but still fits the bill!

Morgans

Nulty wrote: »

I know she was a mare, just sticking her in with the sires cause she is arguably a more successful broodmare than a race horse despite winning the Arc. To produce 2 horses of Galileo and STS calibre, She'd want to have been STS to better that achievement.

amazing achievement.

Technophobe

..a true great....

fr wishy washy

Norfolk and Chance.

UrbanSea

You should put the people that you don't particularly like at tables named after some horses who get beaten about 50 lengths in sellers and they'd never know.

hucklebuck

UrbanSea wrote: »

You should put the people that you don't particularly like at tables named after some horses who get beaten about 50 lengths in sellers and they'd never know.

I am going to call the Kauto Star table "French Nag" and stick one of my pals on it. We were out October 09 talking about the Gold Cup, I was saying I though Denman would beat Kauto and I would not be surprised if Imperial Commander beat one or both of them. My mate was getting more and more agitated so I threw in "he is only a French Nag"!! I though he was going to punch me in the face, he then went and told all the rest of the lads what I said and they knew I was taking the pish, he will go nuts at the wedding too.:D

hucklebuck

Nulty wrote: »

I know she was a mare, just sticking her in with the sires cause she is arguably a more successful broodmare than a race horse despite winning the Arc. To produce 2 horses of Galileo and STS calibre, She'd want to have been STS to better that achievement.

And Galileo ain't a half bad sire and Sea The Stars first foal looked absolutely perfect, if he runs 70% of how he looks like he will he will be a very decent sort.

eilo1

Red Rum!
Limestone Lad,
Istabraq,
Bobby Jo
Paddy the Plasterer not that he was a great great horse but he was so well loved!

Sprouts

And the missus is fine with this idea? The makers of dont tell the bride missed out on you

Juwwi

For the laugh have a Transvestite table.


http://www.racingpost.com/horses/horse_home.sd?horse_id=599105

byhookorbycrook

Solerina
Danoli

Nulty

Born To Sea

kincsem

How about a few English Triple Crown winners?

Ormonde
Common (for the wife's family )
Isinglass
Galtee More (Tipperary people)
Flying Fox (I don't give a ... )
Diamond Jubilee (appropriate)
Rock Sand
Pommern
Gay Crusader (no comment)
Gainsborough
Bahram

Orby (first Irish winner of English Derby)

How about the best horse of the 20th century?
Sea-Bird

Sceptre (a great filly who won four of five English classics)
Pretty Polly (great Irish mare from Kildare: 22 wins; 2 seconds from 24 races)

The Byerley Turk, (c.1684-1706) was the earliest of three stallions that were the founders of the modern Thoroughbred horse racing bloodstock (the other two are the Godolphin Arabian and the Darley Arabian).
The stallion is believed to have been captured by Captain Robert Byerley at the Battle of Buda (1686), served as Byerley's war horse when he was dispatched to Ireland in 1689 during King William's War and saw further military service in the Battle of the Boyne.

Other interesting names
The Flying Dutchman
Birdcatcher
Kincsem (54 wins from 54)

RichieLawlor

War of Attrition, Long Run, Big Bucks or Get me out of here

gscully

Name a table after that Hungarian sprinter - Overdose.

You can decide what people to put there

hucklebuck

eilo1 wrote: »

Red Rum!
Limestone Lad,
Istabraq,
Bobby Jo
Paddy the Plasterer not that he was a great great horse but he was so well loved!

Padytheplasterer?? You must be joking, has he won a race :P

Thanks for the rest

hucklebuck

Sprouts wrote: »

And the missus is fine with this idea? The makers of dont tell the bride missed out on you

It was her idea, I decided to do the dvd. She has a degree in equine science and worked for the Aga Khan and in Windfields Farm(Northern Dancers yard), she left it though and do you think I would be able to get her to watch them in the paddock? We watched Zarkava's Arc, I was delighted with my 7/1 slips and she picks Its Gino out as her pick of the paddock (150/1 dead heat 3rd)

Thats a crap show, you would have to do something crazy like an underwater wedding!!

hucklebuck

robbie1977 wrote: »

For the laugh have a Transvestite table.


http://www.racingpost.com/horses/horse_home.sd?horse_id=599105

Lol, he is a gelding, all he needs is the homones :eek:

hucklebuck

RichieLawlor wrote: »

War of Attrition, Long Run, Big Bucks or Get me out of here

Cheers Richie, get me out of here? Do you rate him?

Duh, just twigged that :eek:

AhrSkidar

Had my biggest ever betting pay day on him when he won the 2000 Gold Cup (backed him at 25s after his King George flop) so you should def consider having a table called Looks Like Trouble.