There was a Be Friendly which won the first two runnings of the Haydock Sprint Cup in 1966 and 1967 (race was originally called the Vernons Sprint Cup). It was owned by the BBC commentator Peter O'Sullevan.
He named his parakeet after a famous racehorse called Bluebelle...
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The horse the IRA kidnapped was a racehorse named Shergar.
Elizabeth Taylor
Cigar was named not for the tobacco product, but for a navigational intersection for airplanes. -Wikipedia
There was a horse named Go Fish born inb 1995.
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The friendly giant in Narnia is named Rumblebuffin.
A cheetah or another racehorse.
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He was an American thoroughbred named Secretariat (1970 - 1989) as was the first American Triple Crown champion in 25 years. His name derived from the horse being a large chestnut
Gunsynd was the racehorse known as the 'Goondiwindi grey'.