Horses with "human" names

armchair_rider

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My Mum also believes that animals should have human names. She wanted to change the name of one of our rescue cats because she thought Simba was a stupid name - and it is in his case, he's a right wimp! She didn't like Sammy much either so he mostly gets called Sam.
 

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Met the most gorgeous Colin a few weeks ago. He is an integral part of the team at Tom Dascombe's Manor House Stables. He's a strapping grey hunter, who hunts all season but once its finished helps out with the racehorses.

Here he is ponying a somewhat stroppy recruit as they all return from the gallops. He won't take any nonsense, apparently.

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(Colin is second from the right).


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Prior to going out to Dubai to win the Gold Cup earlier this year, Brown Panther went to Wolverhampton Racecourse for a practice at being ponied to the start, with Colin doing the ponying. Smashing horse.
 

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My ISH/TB is known as Syd.

He was Polo when we got him, and changed his name to Sydney because my wife was born there.

He is Sydney Smith in his passport
 
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In the racing yard we have a lot with human names - once you get through so many horses you start running out of names to give them!

Of my own I have a Jeff, Max, Lucy, Pippa, Gerry and Lance but Lance is short for Lancelot. Certainly not named after the drug addled cyclist like one of the yard horses was - before the deugs story came out I hasten to add!
 
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