Giving horses new competition names.

ycbm said:
Can I help Popsdosh? I can tell you anything you want to know about the advert. It was on Dragon Driving, you'll find it easily if you Google it.
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Keep your nose out its nothing to do with you! Didnt quote you. If you had asked you would know good trotters dont throw their legs behind them ,hope he doesnt start pacing it does nothing for your dressage marks! :-)
 
popsdosh said:
Keep your nose out its nothing to do with you! Didnt quote you. If you had asked you would know good trotters dont throw their legs behind them ,hope he doesnt start pacing it does nothing for your dressage marks! :-)
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What a lovely man you are :)

If you say so, PD, though I did say I know nothing about harness racing, I only find pictures of trotters looking like this at full stretch, or even more extreme extension backwards of the hind leg.

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Just ignore me like im trying to with you! However as per usual you cannot help yourself if you cant handle it dont poke the fire (2Xs today)so go on keep making a prat of yourself ! I think my time will be better spent starting an unpopularity pole guess you will win hands down if my PMs dont lie
 
I hate my share horse's registered name, as does his owner. It is, frankly, far too girly for a 17hh chunky monkey of a gelding. We never used it until I started doing some BRC with him and we had to use his passport name as the rules demanded. Within a couple of days of results being published online, my riding club got an email from his breeder (as it happens, I look after the email account). She'd been trying to track him down for years and regularly googled his name in the hope something would ping up sooner or later. She now visits us about twice a year, has given us loads of baby pics of him and filled in the relatively small gap we had in his history. As much as I hate it, I'm really pleased we never changed it!
 
I think it’s a bit unfair for people to think removing credit from the breeder is ok because “they didn’t produce/train it” – no they just put their time, effort and money into selecting and keeping their breeding stock, breeding the foal, raising and keeping a it safe and healthy until it was sold (and probably not for much, if any, profit). I don’t really like my horses passport/show name but I use it in competition and registered events in order to keep his prefix as credit to his breeder (and for anyone wishing to look up his breeding) and like it has been said if it bothered me that much I didn’t have to buy him. Personally I think the naff show names that the owner has obviously just made up themselves are worse.
 
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(Edited in line with a change of wording in post replied to)

Interesting, though, that it has been suggested earlier by Popsdosh that big reputable studs don't put their prefix on stock that don't come up to standard. If that's true, that somewhat destroys the argument that other people buying related stock need to know the horse's relatives' histories.

I'm struggling to think of anything worse than the breeder assigned 'Head and Arse' someone mentioned earlier :D
 
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Have updated to avoid confusion but i'm sure the point was understandable. I don't breed any myself, but do work within the breeding industry and that's not something I have ever personally come across and probably not a relevant reason to someone choosing not to use the studs prefix for simply not liking the name which was the point of this thread (not for personal reasons or as a stand against the ethics of a breeder).
 
Reading through I see you’ve had much food for thought, good luck with your new horse and if he’s out there doing well I’m sure no one will laugh at his name when it’s top of the board (that’s what I tell myself anyway)!!
 
Merlod said:
Reading through I see you’ve had much food for thought, good luck with your new horse and if he’s out there doing well I’m sure no one will laugh at his name when it’s top of the board (that’s what I tell myself anyway)!!
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Thank you. I thought it had been an interesting discussion. I love the horse, anyway!
 
Just wanted to say, sometimes a breeder's prefix can be added by mistake.

My horse has a generic white Irish passport. His prefix is BVS. I've been in touch with Brosna View and they told me they didn't breed my horse, they only had him in for breaking & selling.

I'm not keen on BVS Raheen, but it's better than just Raheen :D

I actually wouldn't mind a spotty horse called 'Patch'. I find the irony quite cute.
 
DHI add DHI to whatever they can and want to brand as theirs, whether they bred it or not. It really brings into question the value of a registered prefix to the buyer, that's purely a marketing name if all they did was buy the horse and name it. Depends on the prefix, I suppose.

The irony is growing on me. Patch is also the name of a101 Dalmatian puppy, but a naughty one!
 
Embo said:
Just wanted to say, sometimes a breeder's prefix can be added by mistake.

My horse has a generic white Irish passport. His prefix is BVS. I've been in touch with Brosna View and they told me they didn't breed my horse, they only had him in for breaking & selling.

I'm not keen on BVS Raheen, but it's better than just Raheen :D

I actually wouldn't mind a spotty horse called 'Patch'. I find the irony quite cute.
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That’s not uncommon. Just standard branding.
I had a Cooley horse that wasn’t bred by Richard Sheene
 
I wish I could trace Alfs breeding - but with a replacement passport, and at least two name changes, I've had to accept that it's not going to happen. Seems a shame, as he's such a superstar that I'd give my eye teeth to get my hands on a younger brother! It would be interesting to find out if his talent is down to nature or nurture
 
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