Badly Named Horses Thread

[HashRouge]

I must be weird. Most of these names sound fine to me!

Yes same, not seeing anything odd about "Frank", "Dusty" or "Tina"!

I love old man names for horses - Barry, Dennis and Colin were particular favourites. Barry was one of the nicest looking horses I've ever seen.

I did once ride a riding school pony called Bush, which I thought was a bit odd. I think it was because of his bushy mane rather than being an homage to an American president! And I always find it funny that my Welsh is called Legend when he's been retired since the age of 10 and he has achieved absolutely nothing of note in his 20 years.

 

[spacefaer]

Steve, Colin, Alan, Eric - all ex racehorses.
17.2 RID gelding called Buttercup - sweet story to it relating to his birth and his name has stuck.
Wizzard- tall black wb gelding
Kelvin - tall bay wb gelding
Turnip - hwt 18hh ISH

I'm not a fan of human names for horses, although I've known plenty and my best horse ever was originally called Justin Thyme and my new one is called Jack

 

[fiwen30]

The most spoilt rotten homebred (not mine!) 2 year old gelding, pushing 16hh already, with a rotten temper, zero manners, a permanently pissy expression, who had been allowed to walk over everyone and everything all it’s life. The breeder thought it could do no wrong, and it was unironically called ‘Handsome’. Blehh.

 

[CrunchieBoi]

Daughter had a wee shetland pony as a girl and decided to call him "Plop". Never ever was allowed to live that one down.

 

[ihatework]

Daughter had a wee shetland pony as a girl and decided to call him "Plop". Never ever was allowed to live that one down.

Best name ever for a Shetland!

 

[CrunchieBoi]

Best name ever for a Shetland!

I can even recall the reason behind it, she was in primary school at the time and the class novel was about a baby owl called Plop who was afraid of the dark.

I'm sure our first hamster had the same name as the hamster who lived at her nursery school as well.

 

[MereChristmas]

I'm not a fan of human names for horses, although I've known plenty and my best horse ever was originally called Justin Thyme and my new one is called Jack[/QUOTE]

Justin Thyme… Rosita’s?

 

[Lexi 123]

My horse is named Lexi I always hated the name I wanted to change it but I couldn’t because she wouldn’t respond to any other name. Turns out she was called this name since she was a foal. It’s to human for a horse in my opinion. It’s also a gypsy name and my horse is a Irish draught so it makes no sense.

 

[jumbyjack]

Sugar Plum! A 13 hand pony with the temper of a mad alligator. Some fool climbed two fences to put his very small child on her back. Result could have been a lot more nasty than it was! A few days later she flattened a silly bloke who tried to feed her grass. Surprisingly she was a great kids pony once caught.

 

[MereChristmas]

A mare was the breeder’s mare’s first foal. Before birth the foal was known as Bump. Apparently this metamorphosed into Bumble.
The filly was registered as Lady Bxxxxx
I couldn’t change the passport but I did change the stable name.

 

[Iznurgle]

A very cute and TINY riding school I rode at in Belgium had two Belgian Drafts who drove as pairs, called Fanny and Willy!

 

[rabatsa]

Daughter had a wee shetland pony as a girl and decided to call him "Plop". Never ever was allowed to live that one down.

I knew a Plop about 45 years ago, the lady then called her next pony Plip.

 

[Parrotperson]

One of the best horses I ever rode. You could have ridden her down the motorway and she wouldn’t have batted an eyelid. Jump anything. Turn her hood to dressage. She was simply brilliant.




She was called Karen. ????

 

[Poingsettia]

My little Shetland is passported Comanche, but I call him Munch(ie).

 

[Hepsibah]

I have known a Spud, Turnip and my favourite, Woman.

 

[The Bouncing Bog Trotter]

First pony was called Ort, that was his registered name with the Arab Horse Society and was the initials of sire and dam.

 

[HashRouge]

A mare was the breeder’s mare’s first foal. Before birth the foal was known as Bump. Apparently this metamorphosed into Bumble.
The filly was registered as Lady Bxxxxx
I couldn’t change the passport but I did change the stable name.

I think Bumble is a nice name!

 

[nagblagger]

I have a Jack, Jacob, Betty and Molly, because they all came with their names they sort of suit them.

 

[Shooting Star]

I once knew a Turnip - owner bought it with that name but was convinced it was named due to its liking of whipping round & taking a chunk out of its handler

 

[smolmaus]

I have known a Spud, Turnip and my favourite, Woman.

Spud is another great name! There is a Spud (short for Sputnik) still kicking from when I learned to ride on him 30 odd years ago, had his 43rd birthday this year!

 

[ihatework]

Nothing wrong with the name Turnip! I have a little angelic 3yo here so named, and she has a queue who would like her

 

[Gloi]

I had a stallion called Richard who I called Dicky at times for various reasons ?.
I went to view a mare to run with him who fortunately I didn't end up buying. Her name was Fanny.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I had a stallion called Richard who I called Dicky at times for various reasons ?.
I went to view a mare to run with him who fortunately I didn't end up buying. Her name was Fanny.

????

 

[spacefaer]

I'm not a fan of human names for horses, although I've known plenty and my best horse ever was originally called Justin Thyme and my new one is called Jack

Justin Thyme… Rosita’s?[/QUOTE]

No - he had a different competition name! And was just Justin at home

 

[blitznbobs]

I have a mini poodle called wolf…

not a horse tho

i had a 18 hh wb called gerald and a mare called wtf is alice ( alice for short)

 

[HorseMaid]

My uncles horse is called Baby - he never got around to giving her a proper name when she was born! I had one called Disgrace, and he really was.

 

[Lurfy]

I know a TB called Neal which makes me chuckle.
When the kids were little my daughter named her hen Fleather Flatonxious Shannonderra the Third. Feather for short.

 

[Elf On A Shelf]

At one time in the yard we had a Thomas, Tom, Tommy, Tim, Timmy and a Tam. All of the owners wanted their horses called Tom or Thomas so we had to get inventive. With the exception of Tam, he was always Tam. We are back to having a Thomas and a Tommy again.

I don't like human names for horses either really but we have a few of them in the yard. Hank, Henry, Jess, Ronnie, Lou, Dora, Maddie, Ivan, Joe, Jeremy, Douglas, Hugo, Mary, Max, Bruce, Humphrey, Marty and Donald.

 

[rabatsa]

At one time we had to change the names of a lot of RDA ponies as they all arrived called Bill or Billy. Merlin the one I took on retirement had been known as Bill in his previous home, I think that he was the seventh to arrive so named. The first Billy is still with the group.

 

[smolmaus]

To be honest most of the horses at the sanctuary have human names. We had a little family of Charles, Annie, Harriet, Edgar and Violet all of which I hated at the start but they grew on me. Except Edgar, calling such a beautiful, perfect little colt Edgar was a crime ?