Name Your Derby Horse

Living pretty close to Louisville, KY the Derby is a big deal around here. Like many who live in this area though, I haven't actually been to Churchill Downs (and don't have a big desire to go)

However, I usually partake in Derby Party festivities with close family. Basically it's an excuse to get together, hang out, eat good for you food and watch the races (unless we're sick like we were last year)

And like many people we choose our horse to root for based on the horse's name (hey, who needs statistics when the horse has a cool name?) Remember the year Silver Charm won? 1997. Yep- he was my pick because his name is pretty.

Yesterday I ran across a list of the Derby horses for this year's race and read them to Marcus.

Black Onyx
Charming Kitten
Falling Sky
Fear The Kitten
Frac Daddy
Giant Finish
Golden Soul
Goldencents
Itsmyluckyday
Java's War
Lines of Battle
Mylute
Normandy Invasion
Orb
Overanalyze
Oxbow
Palace Malice
Revolutionary
Verrazano
Vyjack
Will Take Charge

We started wondering the story behind some of these names and began coming up with names of our own. Of course many of them stemmed from old inside jokes between us. Yanno- the ones so old that the joke origin is fuzzy now and all you know is they make you giggle?

Here's our Derby horses:

Random Concrete
Knitster
Mama Moo
Functional Dysfunction
The Situation

And my favorite....

Zombie Jellyfish

And of course- who can forget the horse lovingly named "Hoof Hearted"? Because...well...watch....

What would you name your Derby horse???