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Hi, I want to change Arnie's passport name, Armarni, for a couple of reasons:
1) I hate it
2) There is already a horse registered with BD with the name
3) It is spelled 'wrong' (note the daft extra r!)
4) It doesn't suit him

Now I kinda want to keep it simple, but then I have flashes of wanting something funny, these are my initial thoughts (quite poor, I have no inspiration, any others?

Mr Arnie
Mr Arnold
Arnold Horsanegger (tee hee)

He is the horse in my signature, he is a big 17hh slightly stupid warmblood :)
 
Personally as a breeder I would be fuming if anyone was able to change the passported name (but I have a prefix and want to be credited with having paid for and bred the foal).

A lot of horses have weird spellings as you have already pointed out there are other horses with similar names, so adding letters means they are not identical (not something I would do myself, I don't like weird spellings).

It should actually be illegal to change passported names - but I know it happens, some studbooks won't allow it though thankfully.
 
Thanks, not particularly helpful though. I work at a Stud yard and wouldn't change a prefix, his name is nothing to do with his breeding at all, you wouldn't guess it from his parentage and I want to change it as is my right as his owner.
 
Will the passport issuer permit you to change his name? I have a filly registered with SHGB - I hate her registered name but under no circumstances will SHGB change if.......have you checked you CAN do this?
 
Sometimes it says in the actual passport or if you knwo the agency check on their website, that's what I did (I can even do it online and they will send me a label for his passport) :)

I have had a suggestion of Hey Arnold which I quite like...
 
Batgirl said:
Sometimes it says in the actual passport or if you knwo the agency check on their website, that's what I did (I can even do it online and they will send me a label for his passport) :)

I have had a suggestion of Hey Arnold which I quite like...
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Sounds like typical HPA rubbish when you can do something so serious as a name change on line and they send you a sticker; very security minded of them but seeing as it is a HPA one that means you don't have the registered breeding in it so you are not going to upset the breeder too much if they couldn't be bothered to get a decent passport for it.
Bad luck to change a name though.

Isn't Armani expensive? http://www.armani.com/gb
 
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The only horses I've ever kept the original names for have been bad one's/gone wrong so now everything gets changed. Her name puts you in mind of a pretty little show pony of welsh a size. But she's a 14.1hh connie x cob. Also it says she is piebald but she is now grey. So that needs changing too.
 
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when I bought my youngster (registered with horse passport agency) and I contacted them to change owner details i was asked if I wanted to change his name! (they must have thought caspian was a bad name!) Just ring the company yours is passported with and ask
 
Maesfen said:
Sounds like typical HPA rubbish when you can do something so serious as a name change on line and they send you a sticker; very security minded of them but seeing as it is a HPA one that means you don't have the registered breeding in it so you are not going to upset the breeder too much if they couldn't be bothered to get a decent passport for it.
Bad luck to change a name though.

Isn't Armani expensive? http://www.armani.com/gb
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But it's not Armani its a copy (boom boom):D
 
When I bought my Haflinger, he was passported with the Cleaveland Bay Society!

His passport name was Kodie, but the dealer I bought him off called him Ben. I called him Benji and seeing as I was already sending off his passport to change ownership and as his colour, height and breed were wrong, thought I'd change his name too! Ill add its definitely him as he has a strange shape stripe on his face that is bottom shaped (OH calls him bum face!)

So now he has a correct passport and I love his name :D
 
Superstition has it that it is bad luck to change a horse's name.

Who is superstitious? Who believes such rubbish?

I have changed a horses name just twice in nearly 50 years. Both horses met with major accidents, one fatal and one never able to be ridden.

I won,t be changing a name again!
 
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