\u201cI was like, \u2018You know what, I\u2019ll name this one after Johnny,'” Conanan told the Associated Press. “Because Johnny as a kid, he wasn\u2019t the biggest player, but he had the biggest heart. So, I was, like, ‘This horse, I think he\u2019s going to be the one.'”<\/p>\n
In the same race on Saturday, Devon Bradley entered his horse, Johnny Hockey, from Bradley Thoroughbreds out of Columbus, Ohio, where Gaudreau spent two seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe needed a strong name. We needed a name that has some meaning, something to kind of give your horse just an extra oomph,\u201d Bradley told the Associated Press. \u201cWe just felt like it fit, and I guess the rest is history.\u201d<\/p>\n
The two horses were born just about a month apart when both men decided to honor one of the best American hockey players of all time. They were running 1-2 into the final turn before Johnny Hockey faded out of the pack and Gaudreau was overtaken for first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI was like, \u2018You know what, I\u2019ll name this one after Johnny,’” Conanan told the Associated Press. “Because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-870583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}