Grand names for horses that don't live up to the name?

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I have always wondered how many horses end up with a show name they don't live up to so grand, and these days chosen at a very early age for a passport.

So you might have a foal with excellent breeding and call it (and I am just making these up so don't be offended if yours is actually called this ) Dream Dancer and then when its actually starting its competetive career its about as much as a dream dancer as a frog with gum on its feet.

I had a naughty pony growing up who we always said would have a proper show name when she behaved - she always just had her stable name, she was very naughty and occasionally brilliant!

So has anyone name a horse then regretted the BIG name, or is there a name you have heard at a show that has made you smile when you see it get eliminated at the first?
 
Some people just aren't good at naming horses or have limited choices, ie my mare is a dutch warmblood born in 2000 and the names had to begin with the letter T. Her name is Tictac. It's a stupid name! but that's what she's called. Her personality far outweighs her name though and she is better known on the yard as princess or Diva lol
 
TicTac said:
Some people just aren't good at naming horses or have limited choices, ie my mare is a dutch warmblood born in 2000 and the names had to begin with the letter T. Her name is Tictac. It's a stupid name! but that's what she's called. Her personality far outweighs her name though and she is better known on the yard as princess or Diva lol
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Same mine is restricted by E for the year 2009. WB and has a nickname of Donkey or Diva too lol.

Would love a show name for her but alas nothing worthwhile has come forward... so she will be Eliza.
 
Years ago, I used to take part in a jumping league, and there was a horse that used to turn up every week, called "A Touch of Class". It was an underweight TB with a mane about a foot long, and looked as if it had just been pulled in from the field. The girl couldn't ride either. If you're going to call your horse that, you could at least groom it before you go to a show!!

Used to make us laugh every time we saw it tho.................
 
Not a horse but a dog. Our black lab came to us already registered and I don't know if it was the breeders or the kennel club who gave her her official name, but nothing could be more unlike Poppy's real personnality than "Pagent Queen". She was a good solid labrador whose looks did not match the name, and *hated* the once or twice I tried to show her! She was also from gundog stock, so quite how many shooters would have admitted to owning a dog named that I don't know :D
 
Mine was named on his Passport as Okie Dokie!

I wish he was a quarter as good as the late Oki Doki of Albert Zoer's! They have in common that they are/were both big bay geldings with a white star. No relation in terms of breeding though!

unfortunately the BSJA wouldnt let me call him anything else so he is registered as Okie Dokie V

Basil in the stable though
 
Fany is Fany Du Champ De La Petite Ville! That is an awful lot of name for a a 14-2hh horse! Actually its not really as grand as it sounds, just means Fany of the field by the little village. All but the Fany bit is a suffix used by an Ardennes show breeder.
FDC
 
Heard a horse being called in the ring as "Red Alert", I was expecting to see a fizzy, fiery chestnut, but instead saw a lumbering bay.

A delicate part arab called, for no understandable reason, Jumbo and a heavyweight hunter who'd been called Dinky.

Were they being ironic?
 
Not horses, but dogs - my bonkers, clumsy, noisy, licky, lovable, adorable, fizz bucket of a Golden Retriever has the show name...."Clear Paige".
So not her personality!!!
K x
 
Pitch Black said:
Heard a horse being called in the ring as "Red Alert", I was expecting to see a fizzy, fiery chestnut, but instead saw a lumbering bay.
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Likewise a point to pointer called Silver Monarch. He was by Silver Patriarch but then SP was grey, SM was a great big chestnut!

My first yorkshire terrier pup was called something along the lines of Daleas True Blue of Rendrag, I mean really?!

While horse hunting I have found a Beckham, a Love Toy (just no!), a Poster Boy and several completely unpronounceable continental names - how would you ever be able to write their names on entry forms?! :)
 
rhino said:
Likewise a point to pointer called Silver Monarch. He was by Silver Patriarch but then SP was grey, SM was a great big chestnut!

While horse hunting I have found a Beckham, a Love Toy (just no!), a Poster Boy and several completely unpronounceable continental names - how would you ever be able to write their names on entry forms?! :)
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I can see where they came up with the name Silver Monarch even if it wasn't a grey, mines is called Barons Maiden Crest (Father Baron B VII, Mother Maid of Crecy, so again I can see where the name came from).
Can you imagine telling someone that you're going to get your love toy in from the field, or worse going to ride it!!!!

My friend did call her horse Dick so you can imagine the innuendos about that one!!!
 
Mine is called Cado - french for gift the only one he has gifted is my vet with lot's of my cash !

Years ago before the days of every horse having a passport I used to work at a yard where we had horses coming in from dealers quite often with no name. We used to have a theme for the month e.g bar drinks so the horses that arrived that week would be Martini, Mohijto (sp), J20 etc
 
I had a pointer years ago who was called Edged Weapon - though known on the circuit as "Lethal Weapon" because he was not exactly a safe mode of transport :eek:

Recently I was naming one of my youngsters. We usually give them a stable name that's something derived from their parentage, so this one was called Logan. Then I find out the meaning of the stable name (Google is handy for this) and we came up with Lord of Morgallion - at which point we all fell about laughing because lovely though he is, this horse wouldn't be nearly so grand or scary sounding as that :D So we went for an alternative meaning which was Little Hollow, which suits his personality far better;) Not his shape though I'm happy to say :)
 
I've been lurking here for a while, but couldn't resist posting on this one...

A few years back we were at a local horse trials (I think it was Poplar Park) and saw a horse called "Walk on Water" dump it's rider... No prizes for guessing where!

It still makes me chuckle now! :D
 
MarinaBay said:
My mare is Angel as her stable name - Angel she is not!
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Reminds me - my friend named her dog Rogue, because all the horses she knew who were called Angel etc were no angels, so she decided to try a bit of reverse psychology. It worked, he is a very good dog! :D
 
My first pony was called lucky, but I would never buy a horse called this now. Generally as I feel their names have arisen through some mishap, and the owners have gone 'that was lucky....'

Horses called lucky are generally anything but!
 
Stencilface said:
My first pony was called lucky, but I would never buy a horse called this now. Generally as I feel their names have arisen through some mishap, and the owners have gone 'that was lucky....'

Horses called lucky are generally anything but!
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My friend called her dog Lucky :rolleyes: First of all he got hit by a car and lost the use of a back leg. Then a couple of years later he got his eye pecked out by a goose, and then lost the sight in his other eye.

He's still going strong and seems happy, but lucky he ain't :(
 
rhino said:
I've yet to meet a 'z' horse who wasn't very good :) Out of interest, who is he by?
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You haven't met mine yet then haha!! He does have a scopey jump but nappy to hack! He got the name Zorro as "he's a lover, not a fighter"..so much a lover that he'd be mounted by another gelding when they were put in same sex fields..!!
 
x Suffolk Lass x said:
I've been lurking here for a while, but couldn't resist posting on this one...

A few years back we were at a local horse trials (I think it was Poplar Park) and saw a horse called "Walk on Water" dump it's rider... No prizes for guessing where!

It still makes me chuckle now! :D
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I remember that, it was "Walking on Water" with Matt Ryan riding, iirc... fell in the water at Poplar Park, didn't he, or is my memory faulty on that part?

I have a lovely mare called, unfortunately, "Perfect Ten"... I really do have to try to get permission to change her name, that is just TOO bigheaded to try to do dressage on, however good she might be!
 
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