Chrome Period Drawings: Potoooooooo (cp_10)

Potoooooooo (cp_10) "Chrome Period Drawings" gif, 1280 x 1024 px. 2022

Ok, it's pronounced "Potatoes" (get it?)

Potoooooooo or Pot-8-Os was thoroughbred racehorse that won a notable string of victories in late 18th century England. Potoooooooo was a Chestnut Colt sired by an undefeated horse named Eclipse in 1777. The story behind the name goes that one of the child laborers that worked on the estate of Thoroughbreeder Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon, wrote out the name "Potoooooooo" on the baby horse's feed bin, much to the amusement of the Earl who kept the name, although it was often shortened to "Pot-8-0s" on official race documents. So, was the child laborer merely subliterate, or was the child a master punner? We may never know. But an interesting fact about Willoughby Bertie (besides his need to manage how horses fuck) was that he was also a music patron. Funding works by J.C Bach (the lesser Bach nepo baby) and Haydn (the blandest composer of the classical era, like the dude wrote 800 pieces and they all sound like wet saltine crackers). Way to go, Willoughby.

Regardless, Potoooooooo was a legend, a literal fucking tank. Besides winning over 30 races, he was capable of putting out housefires with his saliva, and would often eat field snakes like they were noodles. A total stud.

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