How did your horse get his name?

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I know, this is very New Lounge, but one of the side effects of my experiment has been finding out how horses got their 'everyday' names. So many of the stories are really lovely - named after people, favourite childhood book characters etc.

I thought it might be a nice cheery festive topic!
 
Well mines stable name came from the great aunt of the girl who came to look at my horse with me when I went to look at her
 
Pilfer was because his posh name was Steel Falcon so it was a play on words with steel/steal. I liked that but some people didn't get it??

Millie is because she is Millitiger (Mum= Give An Inch so Milli for measurement. Dad= One More Tiger, hence the tiger ;))

Vinnie is so called just because I like the name; he tends to be V Man or Big V now though!
His posh name is Primitive Phoenix but you can't really shout Phoenix down the field!
 
Lucky is Lucky as she has a funny swirl on her neck in the middle of her neck which is very unusual and apparently "Lucky"... she came from someone who deals a bit, and does come up with some strange names ;) She gets called Loops regularly, as she is Loopy Lu... :p
 
My friends daughter is called Mali, which I think is a lovely name. So I pinched it and swapped it for the Irish version! He wasn't too happy when he found out my horse was named after his daughter :D
It also works as a mix of her sire and dams names, MAckney clover and Laura LEE and is a shortened version of Malarky which is in her passport name.
Of course she is actually called Moot more than anything, as in Mally-Moot (malamute!) :D

Henry was already named when I had him, contrary to what most people think -that I named him after my second name. Purely coincidental!
 
Aw you didn't ask me this :).
Jae got his name because when I got him he was called JT. He was owned by a man who liked football and his mother was called Chelsea so he was named JT after John Terry the England captain.
I hate football and it was after the John Terry cheating scandal and I didn't really like JT anyway so when I bought him I shortened it to J or Jae.
It would have been Jay but my late mare I called Vay and that was a bit too similar so Jae it was. And Jae is a bird and my boy flys like a bird (sometimes when I don't want him too! :p).

His 'posh' name is 'Hi Hopes', that was his racing name. He was called that because they hoped he would be as good as his group one winning dad.

I will never change Hi Hopes. Not because that is what his passport says but also because I like it and it's important he keeps that name :).
 
Ria was called Gloria when i bought her but i had to shorten it - she did not look like a Gloria! She didnt have a full name so we called her Festive Glory. Glory from Gloria and Festive because i brought her home on Christmas Eve.

Mouse is called Mitsibushi Mouse because she is a funny rose grey roany colour like a little fieldmouse and Mitsibushi because she used to fall asleep propped up against the Shogun!

Ive never had to name any of my others!
 
The one that means the most to me was rescued near to death from starvation. Vet though he was too far gone to survive, but he did, thanks to the wonderful woman who nursed him back to health in those early months.

He then came to me and I named him Malachy, it means 'My Angel'. And he is.
 
Oh also I wanted him to have a proper name. JT isn't a proper name, it's shorthand and John Terry is someone elses name.
I wanted him to have his own, proper name because that's what he deserves :).
 
One of our homebred's stable name is Flossie because my Dad (who is Scottish) used to call me Flossie McGlossie when I was little. Her posh name is TNT, because when she was born she was like a stick of dynamite and sharp as a nail (chestnut mare;)), however now she a dobbin :p
 
Jaffa because it looked like someone has thrown one at her face! ha ha!! :)

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(oh and we did eat a ALOT of them driving round the country horse hunting! ;) :)



Her nickname round the yard is "Pudding"!! Poor girl is never gonna have a small waistline is she??!!
 
Her passported name is Jurata. Apparently this is a polish beach where a lot of amber is found.

I call her Jay as Jurata is too much of a mouthful. She's often called Jaybo, Poojay, Jaybear (she's got a black bear kind of look about her in the winter) Pooj, PJ, JB. I'm a bit bad for sticking to one name to be honest. A lot of the time i just call her twinkle toes, madam or s**t for brains if she's being particularly mischeivous! :p
 
We were thinking of a name for Billy - he's big, brave and coloured - so what better than a big brave name (ie. An Indian cheif type name) so he became geronimo - except someone else had that name so he became gironimo :p
 
My girl had two names really when I got her, I got her from work (racing yard) so she had the name her owners gave her (not a racing name though) and the name work gave her. Her owners had called her Joy as her mum is Kallistas Pride, so they had Pride and Joy. At work she was named Ethel because as a baby she made friends with another filly who they'd named Dot. In Eastenders Dot Cotton had a friend called Ethel, so my horse is named after an old lady in Eastenders :p I decided to keep the name Ethel as I'd known her as that for 6 months before I was given her and liked the name anyway :) Not often you meet a horse called Ethel :D Dont have a show name for her though :(
 
Genie - because her name is Miss Congeniality and that was what her previous owners decided on.

Titchy - because she was! She's not anymore but it's stuck!
 
Mine is called Solo because after having a 17.3 and getting a 15.1. He was so low I could get on. His show name was Goingsolo because he had a habit of throwing massive bucks and me hitting the deck.
 
I have no idea why Molly is called Molly - she was named that when I got her but I like it :)

She also gets called :deepbreath:

Mollymoo
Mollymoomin
Mooey
Mollycob (her 'showname' despite the fact we do about 3 competitions a year)
Mollymoomoo
Stinks
Grotbags
Cobbington
Cobbette
Cobley
Ponyhorse
Big Old Horse
Or just simply - The Cob.
 
Moja already had her name when I bought her. I really liked it, quite un-usual and distinctive but never had a clue what it ment. When I traced her previous owners the girl told me that she was bred by a guy who worked in Kenya alot. Turns out Moja means number one in swahilli (kenyan language) and her 2 foals Mbili and Tatu mean number 2 and 3 in swahilli. I know Tatu is called pip for short. Im lucky Moja's name is simple :D

I love the story behind her name, I was amazed I found out lol

I often call her ginge though (she's a chestnut) haha...cruel mum I am :D
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He was un named when the dealer bought him over, his Sire is Quantum so they called him Quarter as it started with the same letter as his sire (some kind of tradition or something? No idea) Anyway he was QTee for short and i just couldnt bring myself to shout that accross a field so shorten it to Q :D

The best one was my last mare, she was a job lot over for a dealer and came with 2 other horses, a small Forest type and big black cob and mine somewhere inbetween. The small Newfy was called Itsy (can you see where its going :D) mine was called Bitsy and the wacking great cob was Teenie :D. I think i got the best horse but with the worse name. She got called Titsy at a large show once so i thought up the show name of Just a Bit to avoid that again :D
 
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One of mine is named after both Keanu Reeves (:rolleyes:), and another forumer. He's KP for short, though I mostly refer to him as the turnip these days...
 
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