Budweiser’s Clydesdale foal is named Hope

Anheuser-Busch said Tuesday that its contest to find a name for a foal born Jan. 16 at the company’s Clydesdale ranch in mid-Missouri generated more than 60,000 tweets, Facebook comments and other messages.

 
By JIM SALTER | Published: February 6, 2013   

ST. LOUIS — The three-week-old star of Budweiser’s Super Bowl ad now has a name: Hope.

Anheuser-Busch said Tuesday that its contest to find a name for the foal born Jan. 16 generated more than 60,000 tweets, Facebook comments and other messages. Hope was one of the more popular names generated through the social media effort.

photo - A 7-year-old Clydesdale, top, watches over her foal at Warm Springs Ranch in Boonville, Mo.  AP Photo
A 7-year-old Clydesdale, top, watches over her foal at Warm Springs Ranch in Boonville, Mo. AP Photo

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Other suggestions were nods to the song featured in the commercial, including Landslide — the name of the song — and Stevie — for Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks.

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