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My sister and I call our horses lemons!
This started as a bit of banter in the pub, quite a lot of our horsey friends have OHs who are keen fishermen, this leads to much competition as to which pastime is the best; fishing or horse riding (obviously there is no contest!)
The banter led to one of the fishermen informing us that horse's brains are the size of lemons! Although we know this is technically inaccurate, the horses became known in the pub as "lemonheads" for a while. This has been shortened to lemons!
The stables, yard and paddocks are known as "lemon land".

Anybody else got a daft, made up name, collective noun etc for their horses?

Just nipping out to check the lemons have hay, back shortly!
 
A racehorse trainer i knew called her kid's ponies (shetland types) 'runty-legged manure makers'.

Another trainer I knew had a youngster from a stallion whose stable name was Rover, out of a mare whose stable name was Turd (don't ask!!!) and called the off-spring 'Doggy-doos'. Strange but true. Fortunately she ended up being called D.D.
 
wkiwi said:
A racehorse trainer i knew called her kid's ponies (shetland types) 'runty-legged manure makers'.

Another trainer I knew had a youngster from a stallion whose stable name was Rover, out of a mare whose stable name was Turd (don't ask!!!) and called the off-spring 'Doggy-doos'. Strange but true. Fortunately she ended up being called D.D.
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My kind of humour, this has brightened up Sunday morning. My brother has a cat called Turdy.
 
My cobs and sec A are collectively referred to as 'the chunks' and Anglo and sec B referred to as the 'the skinnies'. Quite boring but when you have a few it's easier to just group things into types for feeding instruction purposes
 
When I go into the american barn, and they're all looking at me, I often say 'alright kids'?' (Maybe i expect some to respond ''not really, never enough food around here!'' or something like that! lol
'Twinkle toes' is often said to anyone who dare fidget...
 
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When I go into the american barn, and they're all looking at me, I often say 'alright kids'?' (Maybe i expect some to respond ''not really, never enough food around here!'' or something like that! lol
'Twinkle toes' is often said to anyone who dare fidget...
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Mine ALWAYS replies with 'not really, never enough food around here!' - you do have to translate the wuffling nostrils, but I'm 100% certain that is what she says - LOL

Flying Circus - I did do this to one gelding after having a very 'princess-y' mare for a while, so maybe that is how it started??
 
wkiwi said:
Mine ALWAYS replies with 'not really, never enough food around here!' - you do have to translate the wuffling nostrils, but I'm 100% certain that is what she says - LOL

Flying Circus - I did do this to one gelding after having a very 'princess-y' mare for a while, so maybe that is how it started??
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I've never had a mare! Haha. I think his lack of wanting to get his feet wet or muddy (though happy for the rest of him to be covered..) has contributed haha
 
My OH calls one of my mares 'The Ginger Duck' because she is all still and serene on top (of the water as it were) yet below her little legs are going ten to the dozen :)
 
I used to call my boy 'Little toasted sandwich' - it had to be said in an exaggerated French accent though, which of course made it quite normal. I've no idea how it came about - maybe I checked whether he was warm in his rug one day?
 
Mine get opposite names, I don't know why or how I started I don't even do it consciously!

My old mare was fatty (she was impossible to get weight on)
My event mare is loopy (she is so laid back is unbelievable) she's sold & the name has caught on with her new owner already & they are only picking her up today! Haha
1 of my 3 year olds is trouble (she's an absolute angel)
The other 3 year old hasn't got 1 that has stuck yet!
 
My very non-horsey OH called my mare lasagne-face one day as she ruined the lawn and ran rings around him. He tried to get her back in her field and he said she was laughing at him. He never heard of the magic "follow the bucket" technique for a fat mini.Now it's used as a term of endearment. Other people are prob shocked at it but we don't mind. We know she's with us forever.
 
My gelding and his two best friends are referred to as "the Musqueteers", as they always move together and are all very distinct characters...or, when they all demand feeding, they become the Three-Headed Dragon.
 
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Haven't got any collective names for ours but at one point, I had a palomino gelding who answered to 'Lobster.' His real name was Rob; I think the process was something like 'Robbie, Robster, Lobster.'

I also knew a gelding called Rosie (real name Ambrose, but when he arrived at the school, there was already an Amber.) years later, a mare called Rosie arrived, so he became Skewbald Rosie and she was Roan Rosie.

A relative had a Welsh D stallion called Colt, so named because he was the only colt foaled that year at the stud. The breeders referred to him as 'the colt' and it stuck for 29 years. He won at least one veteran class under that name, and a foal of his was papered as 'Son Of A Gun.'

Enfys, your Pasos are gorgeous!
 
I have loads- Madonna ( aka miss piggy ) and Beyoncé ( both geldings) Pinky and Perky, Eric and Ernie, Grant and Phil and Billy, Tweedledee and Tweedledum.

Basically names change depending on their and My mood.
 
I refer to my lad as donkey, the amount of people that think I own a donkey is becoming a problem, he has various other abuse shouted at him when being daft captain wimpy britches (when he poops himself at nothing), pretty princess (when he refuses to step in mud or puddles), fluffernutter (I don't know why!) and occasionally he gets his real name Tea :-)
 
I call all horses 'tozi's' lol Do it so much I might say to someone 'where that tozi place is' or 'those tozis over there' before I realise they have no clue what I'm on about! Can't remember exactly how I started using my own personal noun instead of 'horse' but comes from my horse's proper name 'tosca'. but she is called 'tozi' or 'toz'
 
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