Babbitt, son of Nakayama Festa and the most perverted graycoat lover out there. SS, Heart's Cry, Justa, Shion, C.B. et al. are nothing before him.
Stallions and geldings only though. Mares are nothing to him. He completely ignored Koganeno Sora, a gray mare, during a race, so fans started joking he'd rather prefer her dad Gold Ship instead. He wasn't not horny that day either; during the same race he got so excited with a gray gelding (the lead horse guiding the racers from the paddock to the gates) they had to pull him to the side for a bit.
He also happens to be a Gold City-tier handsome horse with the same beautiful flaxen mane.
(Babbitt was always a horny horse but the "gray stallion" preference is a relatively recent development, according to his handlers. Previously it was some other distinct set of preferences.)
Note : Bobaa probably comes from the word Shuboba (種牡馬) which means stallion
It just comes from boba/牡馬 meaning "male horse". Shuboba ("breeding male horse") itself is derived from boba.
The o/bo/牡 part means "male" and is used pretty much similarly as osu/雄 in compounds except 牡 is generally limited to four-legged livestock like cows and sheep and horses (that's why it has the 牜 radical). So you get 牡馬 (stallion), 牡牛 (bull) and 牡羊 (ram) but something like 牡犬 (instead of 雄犬) would look weird. A similar comparison can be drawn between 牝 and 雌.
The slightly tricky part with translating is that "stallion" (and bull and ram) excludes castrated males in English while the Japanese equivalents usually don't.
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