The Jockey Club Launches New Mobile App

The Jockey Club has launched a new mobile application--The Jockey Club Naming App--and updated The Jockey Club Identification App.

Both apps are targeted to Thoroughbred owners and are available free of charge in the iTunes store.

According to a release, The Jockey Club Naming App enables Thoroughbred owners to submit name claims, name changes, and reserve names with the breed. A name generating feature is among the components of the app.

“The Jockey Club receives more than 45,000 name requests each year, and we know that owners spend a lot of time coming up with just the right name,” said Rick Bailey, registrar of The Jockey Club, in a statement. “The name generator provides potential horse names from a database of hundreds of thousands of previously used but now likely available names.”

“In addition, we’ve included filters on the naming app that will make it much easier to find names that meet an owner’s respective criteria,” he continued. “For example, they can request the naming app to return only single-word names or use filters such as ‘contains’ or ‘starts with’.”

The Jockey Club Identification App, which was unveiled in February 2011 as The Jockey Club Registry App, enables owners and breeders to use the camera within their iOS devices to take and submit identification photos for foal registration. Registry customers can now record and transmit markings descriptions for registration by entering text from their keypads or selecting from a list of commonly used phrases pertaining to markings.

Both apps are for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) and were developed by The Jockey Club Technology Services Inc.