Awful name! Registered name on Horse passport, can I change ?

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Good news. New horse finally found and vetting passed. Bad news, the name he is registered under is truly awful! Ping Ping! They will think he is some sort of Panda!I Want to change it but not sure if I can. Its an Irish horse passport . Anyone done this?:eek:
 
I believe you can change the name, the phone no. or e-mail address of the IHB (Irish Horse Board, or now Horse Sport Ireland) should be on the passport, or you can Google it. They will be able to advise you.
 
He he! I've got an Irish pony with a god awful name, I can't even remember it' so My Little Pony, but I'm just ignoring it until he needs to affiliate, I v
Call him something else.
 
I think you have to pay an admin charge to change the name. I need to do one of mine. I refuse to have a commentator announce and here we have Mrs xxxxxxx riding Hairy Mary.
 
AdorableAlice said:
I think you have to pay an admin charge to change the name. I need to do one of mine. I refuse to have a commentator announce and here we have Mrs xxxxxxx riding Hairy Mary.
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Hairy Mary is awful, why do people do it, do they not think of the future when they fill in the forms to name the horse. I did have a Mary once and she got called Hairy Mary but not in public.
 
Having had Hairy Mary for a few weeks and found out that she can open any door and escape, open the feed room and consume beef nuts and chicken feed, I have called her some very unsavoury names.

Put back into a reinforced stable she put her ample arse on the back wall and pushed it off it's footings.

She remains un-named with a leaning towards Dora the Explorer or Miss Marple. Or, as my OH calls her -
that Fecking Carthorse you bought without asking if we could have another one !
 
I'm pretty sure Ping in Chinese means peaceful or safe (or something along those lines) so maybe that is a good sign about your new horse. Though I do agree, its not a particularly nice sounding name.
 
Well,I must be the only one but I don't think Ping Ping is that bad! (I wouldn't change it from that,at any rate.) I like different or unusual names. It may grow on you,yet!
 
My lad was called Pickles which I changed when I sent off the passport to have it put in my name. I don't think it cost me anything extra?
 
AdorableAlice said:
Having had Hairy Mary for a few weeks and found out that she can open any door and escape, open the feed room and consume beef nuts and chicken feed, I have called her some very unsavoury names.

Put back into a reinforced stable she put her ample arse on the back wall and pushed it off it's footings.

She remains un-named with a leaning towards Dora the Explorer or Miss Marple. Or, as my OH calls her -
that Fecking Carthorse you bought without asking if we could have another one !
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Lol, my husband suggests Baroness, after the villainess fron GI Joe!
 
I have a terrible name too...Diva is Direct Pleasure! You can hear the sniggers as it's announced. It sounds like something out of an Ann Summers catalogue!
Sadly she has competed internationally so I can't afford to change it with the FEI and Westfalian breed society :(
 
I've just had a bash at the Chinese to English translator, on Google and on your behalf, and apparently Ping Ping means Mediocre! You're right, change it!

Alec.
 
I'm glad to have read this post as I bought LL off my old yard owner, who I subsequently fell out with & who's memory leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.. She registered her passport before selling her on (before it was even considered she might become mine) & the name she gave her was just AWFUL! Really hoping I can change it now :D
 
Arizahn said:
Lol, my husband suggests Baroness, after the villainess fron GI Joe!
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I quite like that name, it would suit her. I told my OH and he has just suggested Blunderbus. Possibly due to the amount of breakages he has had to mend since I bought her. She has sat on the rails at the back of her box and turned them into kindling, they are being replaced with scaffold poles. OH half reckons a rhino would be easier to house.
 
We changed the name of one of ours with the Irish Horse Board at the same time as we did the change of ownership. I think it was about £85. The only mistake we made was sending it to the Northern Irish office as we thought it was easier to pay in sterling. Turns out they send all change of name applications to the Eire office and it ended up taking 6/7 weeks. It would have been much quicker to pay in euros and send to the Eire office.
 
MY friend used to have a horse with a truly terrible name... but I did laugh when she got eliminated at an event and the commentator said "looks like 'Mummy's Little Helper' doesn't want to play today!'
 
When I was a teenager my friend wrote 'stupid idiot head' down as one of her reserves after much provocation from myself and another friend of ours. When the passport came back that was the name she had got - she didn't find it so funny in the cold light of day. We still found it hilarious.
 
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