In Spike Milligan’s version of Black Beauty, the famous horse is given an altogether less elegant name. Spike’s characters deem to call her Nigger on account of her blackness.
And while you’d be surprised to hear a commentator mentioning a thoroughbred called Nigger passing the post at Ascot, it has happened in the past, although a man who recently tried to register his thoroughbred as Nutzapper had it rejected as obscene. Interesting Slate article on horse names here.
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