If you sold a horse and the buyer changed its stable name....

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.... Would you be miffed/upset/offended?

Totally hypothetical question I have just been pondering.

I changed my last horse's stable name but I got her through a dealer. Unfortunately it turned out that I know the people who imported and named her and I could never bring myself to tell them I'd changed her name. :o I always felt a bit bad about it. I think my mum may have told them. :D

I don't think I'd mind as such, but it would make me a bit sad.

If you have sold a horse and the new owners re-named it, did it bother you?
 
I changed my foals name when i bought him, i couldnt bring myself to tell his breeder because she said to me 'oh i'm so glad your keeping his name.' eek oh well she never has to know i guess. It wouldnt bother me particularly i guess everyone has different tastes in names :)
 
i changed my horses name when I got him as he never rsponded to it anyway as where I bought him from has an accent (yorkshire) where as I am down in the south east so I couldn't replicate it anyway :) He will now come to call so can only assume it was a good thing . Haven't told his previous owner even though we are still in contact .
 
Dont think it would bother me as long as horse was being looked after and was happy.Would like to no incase some was was talking about the old horse and I did not reconise it cause the new name would not ring a bell if you get me! we got one called weetabix was very tempted but it sort of suits him, did change the dogs name from tiny pop to tilly as no way was shouting that accross the fields lol
 
ive changed horses names in the past, two i told the seller i was changing the name and they werent happy tbh, but heyho

my gelding, i applied for his passport myself and i put his stable name in brackets next to his other name, in case he is ever sold.

if his new owners choose to change it fair enough, but he as long as he has his passport the new owners will know what his name was, as i know a lot of horses 'lose' their names along the way and get given a new one as the old one isnt known
 
I changed my boys name from Romeo :eek: to Bentley and told the old owner before I even had him loaded in the trailer to bring him home :D ...we had already discussed how terrible his name was it wasn't a great surprise :D
 
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I like Romeo. :o :D
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It seemed like a perverse joke at the time...
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and even now he's filled out I still think Bentley suits him better :p :) (gratuitous photo alert :p )
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I've bought horses and changed their names if they didn't answer to the first one. I've also altered names slightly if I have hated them! One that springs to mind was GoGo which was changed to FloJo.
 
Bentley's gorgeous, what a improvement you wouldn't think he was the same horse!

I had a coloured cob that i bought as a 4 yr old called Fergal! hated the name so changed it to Floyd as i really liked the name and it suited him better! he came to the name floyd as well! told his previous owners ......just said i always wanted one called Floyd so i had changed it and they liked it too!
 
previous horse was Kerry - I called her Kezi but old owner knew her by Kerry, New horse I have kept her name - Aoife - pronounced ee-fa - I like it even though no-one seems to be able to say it right!!!
 
I did fairly recently, the old owner still has a pony at the same yard and even though I always refer to the horse as Mia she still refuses to accept her name has changed and continues to call her by her old name.
I wouldn't mind so much if she had the horse years but she sold it to me 3 weeks after buying it herself because she was scared of it!
 
moses06 said:
Not at all - their horse...
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Quite.

I always register my youngstock so their papered name can't be changed, barn name, well, that's up to them it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I know for a fact that some of last years changed, Apollo 1 is Billy Bullet, Baby is Willow, Dessie is Ruby, Cougar is Simba and Persephone is Sephie.
 
My horse didn't have a stable name when I bought him, only a long, clinical sounding racing name. There were several names that he was being called, and I chose Claude for him. He likes it :D, and he definitely knows that's his name now.
 
kezimac said:
previous horse was Kerry - I called her Kezi but old owner knew her by Kerry, New horse I have kept her name - Aoife - pronounced ee-fa - I like it even though no-one seems to be able to say it right!!!
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Mouse's original name was Kerry, as he was born in 1994 (all Eriskay foals began with a 'K') but we thought it would confuse people in England to gave a gelding called Kerry!
 
Well I sold an Andalusian called Mr.Turnip so no, I wouldn't be offended!! It was a horrible name for a beautiful horse. I think his new owner calls him Mr.T, I just called him Turnip or Tiddler (He was only 14.2! Much too small for an Andalusian) Unfortunately she hasn't kept in contact :( I'm starting to worry...
 
I've changed a couple if it doesn't suit them. I have only ever sold one and I have to say I'm glad they kept it. I chose a nice name for him and would have been a bit surprised had they not liked it, too.
 
She didn't come with a name! She was just known as 'big brown mare' at the dealers :o

I hummed and harred for ages about changing Piper's name - I wanted to call him Friday or Marmite but I was overruled by my friends :o By the time I'd thought of anything else Piper has stuck.

Mine you he's exclusively called Pipsqueak nowadays :o
 
We've had a horse recently come to the yard that I knew when he was 4 - 6. Since then his stable name's been changed and I find it ever so weird!
 
well when i go my mare she didn't come with a name from the dealer, so we called her jazz when i found the previous owner i found out she was called pinknose glad she didn't come with that.

my friend had the same thing named her horse ralph and found out he was called minnie!! we decided ralph was more suitable!

if either hadn't been silly names the chances are we would have reverted back to there previous names.
 
I have never changed a horses name, I wanted to change Taffys but was told ohhhhh no its bad luck.
So for all those that changed the names, did you get any bad luck?
 
I would never change a name, no matter how bad! I think its very unlucky and also very confusing. Often horses develop nicknames after being with us a while that tend to stick though!
 
The horse I bought this year has a very nice stable name (Swift) and I haven't officially changed it and most other people use it but I only ever refer to her as Nitty (because she had lice) or Boris (because she looks like a spider at the moment).

However, I suspect she thinks her name is 'pack it in you idiot pony' or something like that anyway :)
 
Mine didn't have a stable name when he came so I got the OH to choose one-had to throw him a bone!

So far, I haven't changed his passported name as it costs 65 Euros and I just haven't bothered.

Ultimately, it's the voice of the owner that the horse reacts to and routine, so he shambles over no matter what I call him.
 
I've changed my yearling's name slightly and not told his old owner. She named him Albert (she also had a Del-boy and a Rodney) but from the moment I went to see him, a fortnight before I actually collected him, I started referring to him as Albi. I've only changed his name to Albion, which I prefer, so he's still Albi and that's how I refer to him on FB. I don't actually think she'd be bothered anyway.

I bought Ludo from a dealer and changed his name from Splash without a second thought - and told the dealer too... didn't think there was the same emotion involved there.
 
Wow what a change in Bentley/romeo! he looks gorgeous! I have sort of changed names in the past. I bought my old pony off a dealer, the dealer said his name was Romany Blaze (full name) so I decided his stable name was Blaze plus he had a blaze on his face). But when I got in touch with old owner, it turned out he was just Romany, and the other horse he went to the dealer with was Blaze (even though other horse had a stripe for a marking). Anyway, I sold him on as Romany Blaze as that was what I put on his passport, and is still called Blaze.
Plus, the people I bought my current horse from bought him without a name and called him Bobby/Bobby Dazzler. But now when I go to shows I have people asking me 'is this horse called George? I think I know him!'. So i'm not sure what his original name ever was.
 
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