Let’s Hope Baby Doesn’t Have Namesake’s Nose

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An outraged Italian mother has gone to court after her husband furtively named their newborn son after a prizewinning horse while she was still in the hospital.

“He said his wife agreed,” said an official at the records office in the small southern town of Boscotrecase, where the boy was registered as Varenne Giampaolo.

Varenne is a 7-year-old horse who is a national hero and Italy’s 2001 athlete of the year. Giampaolo is his jockey’s name.

When the mother discovered that she couldn’t change the baby’s name to Christian, she went to court. A ruling is pending.