Badly Named Horses Thread

What a fun and interesting thread. Everyone has different ideas of ‘nice’ names but I am surprised anyone would object to Dusty. I bought a just backed and unnamed dun youngster. He had black points but not that many dark hairs in his coat. We called him Sandstorm , so Dusty was his stable name.
We bought a beautiful young event horse called Little Lofty! That had to be changed!
Finally the worst of all, one we still have now and just had to be changed….
You Will Go Walking! Where on earth did that come from?!
 
smolmaus said:
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 ?
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I used to ride a wee trotter called harriet at rs! She dumped me at every jump at a show ?
 
Barton Bounty said:
I used to ride a wee trotter called harriet at rs! She dumped me at every jump at a show ?
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I rode a big coloured mare called Harriet years ago as well and she was a bolshy *rse of a horse! Its not a well omen-ed name!! This Harriet was well on her way to being a bolshy *rse before she was sent off to a lovely foster home with a lady who won't take her nonsense!!
 
Not bad names at all, just a tad eccentric but we had a Teacup and a Rattlebox at my childhood RS, both welshies and I loved them both so much, other notable names include:

Pewter
Wilfred
Noddy
Albert

I also was once at a show and had an entry called Daddy's Overdraft which I loved, very tongue in cheek.
 
A horse I knew and then had on loan for a while was called Baby!

My beautiful skewbald mare was called Apache, thankfully whoever had her in-between her breeders and myself changed it to Lottie which I always loved!
I did name my 16.2hh ISH 'Mouse', as when we arrived to bring her home my mum said "she is a quiet as mouse" and so Mouse stuck!

I currently ride a Vodka too!
 
ester said:
My vet did think that Frank was called spanky when he came to vet him as that’s what had been written on the notes ?
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Haha, that's reminded me of the vets writing a previous horses name down as Happy instead of Hattie! Happy, what a name!
 
seaofdreams said:
A horse I knew and then had on loan for a while was called Baby!

My beautiful skewbald mare was called Apache, thankfully whoever had her in-between her breeders and myself changed it to Lottie which I always loved!
I did name my 16.2hh ISH 'Mouse', as when we arrived to bring her home my mum said "she is a quiet as mouse" and so Mouse stuck!

I currently ride a Vodka too!
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First nation names were really common for coloured horses, as well as Apache, have also known a Commanche, Cherokee, Tomahawk, Sioux and Cheyenne.

Have met a Vodka, not sure that works but there's lots of Whiskeys Sherrys and Brandys around.
 
We had several horses at uni with the same name so ended up with:

Grey Tim and bay Tim
Big billy, Little billy and King Billy
And a horse called Brian who was so grumpy, he used to scare the new students.
 
We had a Mr Brown and his full brother called... Mr Brown's brother! We bred a foal, the thelwell pony went to a palomino stallion and the embryo was christened custard. Fortunately it came out dun so the name fitted. I used to hunt a tb horse called Ian. It really didn't suit him either
 
We have a chicken we refer to as 'the hooker' as she 'sits' for all the cockerells. We have 2 sheep called maureen and margaret.
We met a farmer up the road who has a sheep called Julia, apparently when he first got her she was called f##king Julia. She is often found in the village pub beer garden ?
 
criso said:
First nation names were really common for coloured horses, as well as Apache, have also known a Commanche, Cherokee, Tomahawk, Sioux and Cheyenne.

Have met a Vodka, not sure that works but there's lots of Whiskeys Sherrys and Brandys around.
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I ride a Tequila and a Brandie :)
We had a Killur (pronounced killer) in at the riding school once, quite a bolshy cob but I don’t recall him as being particularly savage to justify the name

My friends (human) babies are called baby Naan and baby poppadum - she showed her pregnancy quite quickly so before she was ready to tell people, she blamed her tummy on her gluten intolerance and love of naan breads. So first one became baby naan and so baby two was baby pops/poppadum in keeping with the theme ? they have proper names too but these ones have stuck
 
While we were undergrads, one of my friends got a weanling warmblood and could not decide on a name, so we all called him “Weensie.” Because foals are cute and little. That stuck for far too long, well after his third birthday, but my friend wasn’t going to live with that forever. In a moment of terrible Tolkien geekery, she officially named him Valaraukar, an obscure word for Balrog in one of the Elvish languages. Quenya, for the geeks. Then we all left uni and became adults in the real world -- well, some of us did -- where reading The Silmarillion a bunch of times isn’t something you always confess. She felt a bit mortified by the prospect of explaining the name, now that she was a respectable adult with a proper job (teaching high school English), and the horse became known as simply “Volly.”

I still think of that horse as Weensie.
 
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We had a foal born at our old instructors stables years ago and he was Spindles (for his very long spindly legs) to everyone. He's been sold now so I dont know if he's still Spindles but I hope he is! This is a bad post for this thread tho as it is a very good name.
 
I like human names for horses and for period of time all horses were Dave - no to their face just generally as in, it's the dave racing on TV. This came about as OH thought there were so many show horses with over the top names, they should just be Dave.
 
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