Daft passport names

Recently bought a horse whose green book name is Hi Man. Fortunately, the BS let me register him under a different name taken from his dam and sire after I pointed out that anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of human anatomy might find his name ‘amusing’ when announced by a commentator.

BS wouldn’t let me have my preferred name though, ‘Norfolk In Chance’.
 
Slightly Foxed said:
Recently bought a horse whose green book name is Hi Man. Fortunately, the BS let me register him under a different name taken from his dam and sire after I pointed out that anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of human anatomy might find his name ‘amusing’ when announced by a commentator.

BS wouldn’t let me have my preferred name though, ‘Norfolk In Chance’.
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A racehorse got through with Bonkyl Knight. Ran twice before the BHA noticed. The owners didnt even notice! They had to change it after that.
 
I’ve always said if I got to name a horse, I would call it ‘Like a [insert suitable noun] just so it could be announced “here’s X riding Like a Sack of Spuds/Beginner/Plank/etc”

Slightly off-topic but the thread is going that way: Hoof Hearted is still my all-time favourite racehorse name.
 
Friend has just waved bye bye to a weanling sports horse, whose new owners asked her to passport it as 'Zip It Shrimp'.. she did so through gritted teeth 😂
 
I had a Chocolate Mint Lover when I was a kid. He was a lovely pony and it quite suited him. I also had an ex-racer called Antiguan Smile which for some reason rarely seemed to get produced correctly.

I also had a None The Wiser - my first dressage horse - and it pretty well summed the pair of us up.
 
My young mare is called Staceys Girl, so I call her Princess Stacey or Our Stace lol. She is named after the girl who bred her and Staceys a nice human name but a bit different for a horse but she does quite suit it lol. Ive had that much bad luck with horses I didnt dare change but was initially thinking of changing it to Grace. My horse of a lifetime was called Greenhow Johnny The Joker :)
 
I couldn't have a Stacey. My brain would insist she is Stacey's Mom, who's she's got it going on!

My ponies both have nice, traditonal Scottish names, which are fine - except Morrich Darach doesn't work well south of the border - MorriCK DaraCK really annoys me! Though not as much as a previous yard where he was known as Darack Obama...

The mare is called Tiptoe Firedance. She's a fairly agricultural animal, so I've no idea what they were thinking... She's a QH x hairy cob - I also have no idea what they were thinking there either - she's a lot nicer than she ought to be!
 
I have bought a new ID who's passported name is Only Fool & Horsey which I absolutely hate but have found out its £87.00 for name and owner change so will have to leave it for the moment
 
A friend's horse's passport name was Chagall. Unfortunately, announcers at shows could rarely get it right and the result often was 'And next into the arena we have XX XX riding Chag All' !!
 
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