Redmond v. Jockey Club

ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2.

What’s in a name? To Garrett Redmond, who desires to name his Thoroughbred race horse “Sally Hemings,” everything is in the name. When the Jockey Club, acting on behalf of the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority (KHRA), denied his request to register his horse under that name, Mr. Redmond protested and eventually filed a 42…