THE Cheltenham Festival opens on Tuesday – and racing commentators are hoping the horses’ tricky names won’t trip them up before the first fence.

With runners including Teahupoo, Live Conti and Kala Conti, there’s plenty of scope for slip-ups, and if the tongue-twisters don’t cause problems, some naughtily named nags just might do.

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One, Wear The Fox Hat, was twigged by a race official on his debut outing and had to run identified as “Noname” at Nottingham, Sandown and Wolverhampton back in 1995 and early 1996.

Aussie thoroughbred Fuchu — aptly the son of All Too Hard — won at Kensington racecourse in Sydney in May 2019, while Irish gelding Noble Locks was a favourite flutter back in the Nineties.

Punters expected the French-trained filly Big Tits to be way out in front, but sadly she only finished unplaced in six races in July 2003.

There were also runners called Slippery Dick, Passing Wind, Sheila Blige and Geespot in the Noughties.

Fifty Shades Ovhay, a ­seven-year-old bay gelding, last ran at Market Rasen in March 2023.

And while Whykickamoocow may sound like a reasonable question, it was also a winner at Australian race course Redcliffe last October.   

Meanwhile Maythehorsebewithu proved a force to be reckoned with when it clocked up six wins over an impressive career in the mid-Nineties.

Ha Ha Ha may have had the last laugh in May 2022 when she took part in her most recent race, at Dundalk in Ireland.

One of the biggest mouthfuls for punters, bookies and commentators was Doremifasollatido, in a nod to The Sound Of Music.

It had a string of victories in the US in the 2010s.

One horse name that went viral was Aarrrr, after US racing commentator Tom Durkin pronounced its name “pirate-style” during a race, later racking up millions of views online.

And in 2018 the naughtily named Bofa Deez Nutz won a US race — and presumably avoided the knacker’s yard for a long time to come.

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