General Franco - Offensive or Not ?

General Franco was very impressive yesterday.

But his namesake, General Franco, was a Spanish Dictator of note. This has been highlighted supposedly by a Spanish person on twitter in reply to Racing Guru video of the win.


Fabián
@fbarrei
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En concreto, la aceptación del nombre “General Franco” por parte de
@weatherbysltd
infringe el art.14, IV, 6 del International Agreement on Breeding, Racing and Wagering de la IFHA

Difficult call in these days of PC
I am at the stage where i feel sorry for just "normal" people. They could now be in the minority. Lol

Back to your post Naresh
I am thinking they probably thought that the horse would dictate over others on the turf?
Ontheotherhanddarren Adolf Hitler may be pushing it .

Good punting

would have to say should be re named

Especially with the owners being breeders

If causing the death of 400 000 people is too PC and considered normal then I cant be normal.

...... sure there are horses with names of similar war mongers and other generals.....Stalin Napoleon, Amin ,Robert E lee even Jackson.....lets not get too PC on this matter.....as Franco had his supporters too.... as did Hitler.... but cannot see people wanting to buy and race a horse called Hitler.....unless one is a ultra right wing f@ck n@t.....:ohmy:

Franco had no good points muhit

......that may be so .....but it's not up to the public to judge.....the name has been used here before without objections and thus a precedent stands.....besides who is going to challenge the very connected guy that forked out ZAR4 BAR......all I heard is how the trainer, racing manager and jock talked with the upmost respect for him and how he wanted the horse to be raced.....few owners even with bigger financial clout have not had that much respect....:huh:

Bob Brogan wrote: Franco had no good points muhit

.....on the contrary....a little unknown addition to his Wiki profile credits him(his government) for saving approx 45 000 Jews during WW2....

If your going to name your dog or fish Hitler, Amin or Franco then no problem however when your using the name in the public domain there is a different set of rules.

This name definitely qualifies as publicly offensive.

Just my opinion, all disclaimers apply ....

We’ve had here Emperor Napoleon.


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.....and we also had a General Franco a 7 time winner by Northern Guest out of Spanish Treaty....owned by Andre Macdonald and trained by Buddy Maroun....:whistle: