From Octagonal “my favourite horse and my best name”, and his son Lonhro, to the more recent Darley and Godolphin runners like Long John, whose dam is Hosiery and, from her latest crop, Demerera, a filly out of Rum Cruise, Suzanne has been an inexhaustible source of wit and wisdom.

Having just finished naming the 167 two-year-olds to be registered by Godolphin in Australia in 2016, Suzanne took time to reflect on her 29 years of searching for the names she has bestowed with almost parental devotion.

Suzanne, who is also Godolphin’s statistician in Australia, began naming horses in 1987 for Jack and Bob Ingham’s Woodlands Stud, and continued in the same role after His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum acquired Woodlands in 2008.

One her earliest “big names” was Octagonal who was out of Eight Carat, so the theme is obvious. Lonhro, however was less straightforward.

“When his foaling sheet came down from the farm it described him as ‘tiny but perfect’,” Suzanne says.

“At the time I used to read a magazine called Private Eye which always had stories about this businessman called Tiny Rowland, CEO of the London Rhodesia Mining Company, and always described him as “tiny but perfect”.

“I tried to get “Tiny” and “Rowland” for the colt, but they weren’t available, so I used his company’s stock exchange code LONRHO and made a deliberate mistake with the spelling.”

Thanks to the quality of the horses she is required to name, Suzanne has put her mark on most of Australia’s great races.

Apart from Octagonal and Lonhro which stand out as the best racehorses she has named, she has applied her talent to such Golden Slipper winners as Forensics (out of Prove It) and Guineas (Foreign Bank).

Other of her more inspired choices are Unworldly, a champion filly was out of the mare Spirit; Crawl out of Traipse; Freemason, by Grand Lodge; and Escoffier (ex La Melba) was named after the chef who invented the dessert peach melba.

Suzanne also likes to follow themes.

Like Strategic, Clang and Destruct, all foals produced by the mare Sudden Impulse. Or Light Work, More Haste and Less Speed which are the progeny of Many Hands. Or Le Mans, Suzuka, Imola, Magny Cours and Interlagos, all F1 racetracks and all out of the mare Road To Glory.

From the 2014 yearling crop that is about to begin racing she has come up with Caffeine, out of Pure Energy; Deity (Divine Madonna); Manicure (Trim); Deft (Dextrous); and Digress (Detours).

Others, like the latest filly from Accessories, will race as Maquilla, which is Spanish for cosmetics. Previous foals from the same mare, all named by Suzanne include, Helmet, Bullbars, Epaulette and Pearls.

“It’s got to the stage where now I’m looking at horses from families I have named for eight or nine generations,” she says.

Suzanne agrees with the notion that good horses can add an aura to an ordinary name.

“I could have named Lonhro “Jones’s Dog”, he was such a great horse everyone would have thought it was a good name,” she says.

But she will never settle for the mundane.

“I’m always looking for a name with meaning, something that will be memorable. I generally have a pen and paper handy in case something comes to me,” she says.

“But really, I just hope the horses can run well.”