An owner is "distraught" at being ordered to change his horse's name dubbed "inappropriate" by racing chiefs.
Nick Rhodes called his two-year-old colt Buggerlugs, in memory of his late father Les. Rhodes senior, who took his son to his first race meeting at York at the age of ten, used the word in an affectionate manner during his childhood.
The 'informal, old-fashioned' term is 'for referring or speaking to someone in a slightly insulting but friendly way' according to the Cambridge Dictionary. However just a day before the juvenile's debut at Beverley on Tuesday, Rhodes was told he would have to think of new name for Buggerlugs.
