How did your horse get his name?

Alfie was apparently named after 'Gandalf the Great' as his first owners husband was reading lord of the rings when she bought him. His first passport said Gandalf although always stable named Alfie. When he went through a breeder/dealer yard he was repassported as Arclid Alfie (arclid is a well know breeders prefix in heavy horse world).
His nicknames are many and varied but the one that sticks is fluffbum/fluffy/fluff which was fine when he had a mammoth full winter coat but is not so cool being that he's a manly 18.2 with a full clip now...
 
One of mine got his stable name Jack after the vet who saved his life, as a newborn he apparently got to his feet rather too quickly and went head first into the stable wall knocking himself out, I think it was touch and go for a while but he is a tough lad and made it, so was named to thank the vet.
 
I never thought to ask, ffw, it was only after I heard two cute storeys in a row yesterday I realised how many I'd heard.

The horse I have primary custody of right now is named after the vet who did his dam's AI and was a good friend of the breeder. Neale died a few days before the horse was born, young and unexpectedly, although I'm not sure he'd be pleased to have this particular horse carrying his legacy! :D
 
Bailey was named because he was the same colour as the liqueur when he was born; sadly, he quickly turned orange.

However, he is often called Muffin when he is being exasperating due to his close resemblance to a Spanish mule - it has a lot to do with the ears. This is a typical Bailey face taken in 2008.

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I was a teenager when I got my current horse and convinced my mum and dad when they were drinking at a bbq to buy her for me, they had been drinking Scrumpy Jack so that was her name!
 
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Bailey was named because he was the same colour as the liqueur when he was born; sadly, he quickly turned orange.

However, he is often called Muffin when he is being exasperating due to his close resemblance to a Spanish mule - it has a lot to do with the ears. This is a typical Bailey face taken in 2008.

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Brilliant ears! :)
 
I bought mine from his breeder and I haven't the faintest idea where either of his names came from! That's pretty bad isn't it?! I really hate his stable name, love his registered name, it's really fitting with what I do for a living.....but it has nothing to do with either his dam or his sire's names so goodness only knows where it comes from!
 
Both mine came with their names.
HP is Hercule Poirrot as he gets a big curly moustache in winter.
The dealer who imported Jason from Ireland named each batch either beginning with the same letter or same theme. Jason was from the J batch. I hated the name when I went to see him, but wouldn't decide on another name until he was vetted. By then I was used to it & so it stuck. I do want to think of a show name though.
 
My Connemara's registered name is his stud prefix and then 'Lee' so he was called Lee when I got him. Vom.
So I went back to yard where I worked and we had a rule that all horses had our name plates on doors so it all looked matching and good etc. I got all the old or spare ones out spread them on a table and picked one.
So now he's Bally at home... or more often than not Balls - good old Balls :D
 
Peej was named (by his racing owners) after their best friend who sadly died aged 46 playing rugby, Peter Joy, hence Peter's Joy.

I love that i'm carrying on a legacy and feel very priviledged.
 
Mine is called Socks. At a guess.. I'd say they named him that because of his socks?? Lol :D Previous owners spelt it 'Sox', but I didn't like it that way.

His 'proper' name is Mlini (I think it's a place/country?...) And apparantly when he was in racing they called him Trigger.

He answers to absolutley nothing... I mainly call him Ginge :) Here is the dude...
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My mare is a 2002 KWPN so she had to start with a V. Her dam was Annie, grandam Dannie, then Wannie, Hannie D etc - all the mares have been ---anni since around the 1920s - so she is Viannie.

Her stable name is generally Annie - Viannie's her Sunday name or when she's in trouble!

She's very pretty and acts like a princess, so she gets called princess. She's got massive ears and when she's naughty she also gets called donkey.
 
French was at the yard before I brought her and was passported 'Lyla de Barbiere' and the owner called her Lyla, but the YM was far to manly to being yelling Lyla across the field and seeing as her owner/her were both French she became Frenchie and it stuck. Though if she is being a pain in the butt (not an uncommon occurance) she does get full named! lol
 
Fugly is pretty self-explanatory I think.

(for those who haven't come across it before it's short for F'ing Ugly..... ;)). I didn't name him but I saw no reason to change it either.

Re. veterinary names we had a colleaugue who died very young and his last visit on his way to his final trip to hospital was to a young horse who was subsequently named 'Last Call'.
 
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Mine was just the logical shortening of his racing name. He's called Cody. Really did want to call him Pip though for some reason..toyed with the idea of calling him pip then naming him great expectations for shows in order to fit :D
 
One is called Patch, he is patchy colour (skewbald!) and the other is called Magic because he is MAGIC... cough cough!! Im kidding, well that is there names but i didnt name them, came with them and dont you know its bad luck to change a horses name!! ;) :D

P.s MAGIC!! is also called "the little b*****d!" a lot of the time!! ;)

Edited to add, Patchs posh name is "Stroodle Doodle!" after his old owner was skiing in Austria and went past a cake shop and there was one the same colour as him called... Stroodle Doodle!! ;)
 
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My boy looks like a clydsdale so mother wanted to call him 'clive' unfortunately it stuck ... He is in fact a Belgium warmblood named Fiko R!
 
For a stable name when I bred my welshie, i wanted something related to heaven as sire was called Dark Angel...

as a foal, she was mental and used to gallop flat out around her mum and my OH jokingy said, 'why don't you call her Luna short for lunatic?' - I liked Luna...it was kind of related to the heavens and therefore it stuck!!
 
My little horses' breeder had a mare called Gem, so when she foaled a filly, it seemed apt to her to reverse the letters and get Meg. Meg's sire was a TB called Type Edition and while being born on April Fools day she gained the name Fools Edition.
My NF filly came with the name Penny, I saw no reason to change it. I just gave her the 'posh name' of Fools Gold - she too was foaled on April 1st and fooled her breeders with her colour - they said strawberry roan. (she is grey)!!
 
I had been reading some Greek Mythology a few days before - a story of a horse called Arion - quick synopsis from internet below

"Arion was an Immortal horse. He was the offspring of Poseidon and Demeter. Poseidon lusted and chased after his sister Demeter, not long after Persephone's abduction. Demeter tried to hide from her brother, by changing herself into a mare, hiding among the other horses in Arcadia. Nevertheless, Poseidon found her, transformed himself into a stallion and mounted her. Demeter gave birth to a girl named Desponia, and the colt known as Arion.

Arion was owned by Oncius in Arcadia. Arion was fabulously swifter than any other horses, which Heracles won from Oncius. However Heracles gave up Arion to Adrastus, the king of Argos.

In the war of the Seven Against Thebes, when Theban defeated the Argives, Arion saved Adrastus' life by carrying the king from the battlefield, and brought him safely to Athens."

When I went to see my horse for the first time, the story just popped into my head and I thought he suited it - so he was named Arion. :)
 
Farma said:
I was a teenager when I got my current horse and convinced my mum and dad when they were drinking at a bbq to buy her for me, they had been drinking Scrumpy Jack so that was her name!
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I love this story! However, I am curious about what you would have called her, had they been drinking Screaming Orgasms?
 
I was seriously imaginative with mine. Winnie is named as Allwin on his passport, He's a 2005 baby and registered kwpn. kwpns have the first letter of their name according to the year they were born so in 2005 they went back to A. I had great ideas of something majestic and grand but got as far as winnie from Allwin. It sort of suits him though! Winnie the wally!
 
One of mine is named (not by me) after the horse sales he was bought from in Ireland, fair enough I suppose although a little unimaginative! My mare I have no idea why she was called Lily but saw no reason to change it, it does suit her in a way :), however she does often get called Moomee on account of her cow like colouring :D and lilybean etc for no apparent reason! Her passported name has Princess in it though, yuck! on account of her mum having Queen in hers :( oh well can't win them all!

Mine all get weird variations on their actual names or are called nothing to do with it! :D

My favourite however is my newest addition who came with no stable name, my big ginger filly who is passported as Wonderland which I was not shouting up the field! so Alice she became :) it does seem to suit her somehow too :D
 
Most of mine have come with their names.

The foal we bred was named Kismet and registered as Cappuccino Dream as she was liver chestnut with a "C" for a star. No hidden meaning but Kismet suited her.

My current horse came with the name "Doobie" as, despite being an ex-racer, is the most laid back horse ever; so much so the people who took him on out of training thought he'd been smoking on a doobie... His racing name is Domesday and I couldn't think of a good alternative so Doobie he is :)

My one in a million mare I named Tanith as just before I was due to go down to view her a girl named Tanith was interviewed on the news on her opinion of Gordon Brown (randomly) and the name stuck in my head. I googled it and liked the meanings then as soon as I seen "Squeals", as she was known in training, I knew she was my Tanith.

My chestnut arab mare was named Siham which is arabic for Arrow but, even after my mum getting her arabic friend to list lots of nice sounding foreign names, we ended up with Shiraz!
 
]I have a 'Selvaggia' which means wild in Italian..despite the fact she's the calmest babe in the world...but I hate the name so she often gets referred to as 'the big fat grey one'. And I always call her gorgeous so we can avoid using her name ;)

Ptolemy's Puzzle...Ptolemy was his Dad and he's a coloured but I don't really like the name Puzzle..but he's shortened down to Puz or other names which shan't be repeated on here..

Tuscan Bunny Girl...she was born in Tuscany, around easter and is a girl..But she gets shortened to Bunny or Bun..yes I think I could be one of the only ones to have a horse called Bunny...

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