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Potoooooooo ?
Potoooooooo (1773 – November 1800) was a famous 18th-century Thoroughbred racehorse who won over 30 races and bested some of the greatest racehorses of the time. He is now best known for the unusual spelling of his name, pronounced Potatoes. Potoooooooo was a chestnut colt bred by Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, in 1773.
Abingdon intended to call the young colt "Potato" and instructed the stable boy to write the name on a feed bin. The stable boy spelled the name as "Potoooooooo" (Pot followed by 8 "o"s), which so amused Abingdon that he adopted the spelling.
In The Jockey Club's online database equineline.com, the name is spelled as Pot8O's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo
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