Most ridiculous horse names you've come across....??

And to think, I was a bit embarrassed by my New Forest being called Pete (so called by previous owner for the use of the phrase 'Oh, for Pete's sake ...!!). I hated it at first, but it has grown on me now :D

I've heard of

Fridge
Phantom (for a coloured?!)
Ethel
Mince pie
Ice (for a chestnut?!)
Little Man (17hh hunter type)
 
Here's my list (i've met all of these):
Shiney (my mare, who's a grey and is hardy every shiney!)
Beetle (16.3 ex racer)
Henry (16.2 ex racer)
Betsy (14.2 black cob)
Pacific (15.2 bay mare)
Lucy 2 (lucy 1 was the owners daughter)
Oscar (15.2 bay gelding)
Pony (16.3 racehorse)
Willma (16.1 racehorse)
Marie (15hh racehorse)
SP which stood for Sweet Pea (15.2 bay gelding)
Manchester (coloured sprorts horse type, bred, born, named in Poland)
Gucci (13.2 new forest x)
Ben (shettie)
Tinkerbelle (shettie)
Jam (16.3 SJ mare)
Dilly Doo (16hh bay gelding, you can imagine his nickname :) )
Franny (16.3 sj chestnut mare, quickly nicknamed ''ginger fanny'' :D )
Hop (14.3 RC mare)
Potato (dun, heavy percheron x, tbf she did look like a potato)
Orbit (16.3 bay mare)
 
Our cats would have been called Door and Window if my parents had actually listened when they asked my three-year-old self for suggestions :)

The yard owner where I learned had a thing for people names. There was Toby, Emma, Harvey, and more I don't remember. I was tiny at the time and didn't think it at all odd!
 
Worked at a dealers, we ran out of names quickly.
Mouse (16.2 Id), seagul, rabbit worse had to be the 3 that came in together Whitney, shakira and j-lo

I've one called lollipop though lol
 
Monday. Girl then got another pony and called it Tuesday. Lack of imagination maybe?

Beep. Who was actually the HIS Premium stallion BP.

Also Dolly, not a bad name as such but this was another stallion!
 
dobbin! my dad started calling him dobbin when he was a yearling as a joke, then he started coming when he called him, so it stuck! hes a smart hackney x and has been to BD and BE finals as dobbin!:)
 
one of ours is Hannibal on his passport (ex kings troop and that years intake all began with H
new foal was called ruby as she was born red and white but is now blue and white so changed to sapphire
used to ride a p2p called snowy, he was dark bay
his stablemate was called hitchmough
friend called her foal foaly until she could think of a name, she never did so foaly he remained.
years ago there was a 16.2hh in the riding school called coin
on our yard we have trim,frisco,nesta,vodka,rufus and galaxy amongst others
at daughters college they have parker,quasar,romeo,jewel,soda,oakie,boyzie,blanka,aero
others I have come across are squirrel and jovial and a mare called ziggy
 
My cob is called Cob! He came from an eventers yard where he was the only cob, so a bit of a novelty, got called cob and it stuck. Suits him :D

There's a Donald on our yard.
 
Hmm where to start....

I know a pair of dapple grey eventers, half brothers - Gary and Nigel... It does suit them though.

I also know a Tomato - Chestnut TB 16.1hh

Capsicum - Warmblood 16.2hh

Blah - 16.2hh Stallion

Dodo - 17.1hh black stallion

Smartie - 16.1hh grey TB

Jaffa - 16hh TB

and the most ridiculous name I have ever heard a horse called was in a movie called Amazing Racer... The poor Standardbred was called Rainbow. WTF?!?
 
Ooh just remembered another. When I was horse hunting a year or two back I was lined up to see two one weekend. The second one was called Furby!!!!!
Luckily I never saw, ride and fell in love with this unfortunately named mare as the first one that weekend I bought!!
 
Well I've read through the whole thread and haven't seen this one yet which proves it's not very common (sorry if I've missed it) A horse on a previous yard was called Richard - I just never got used to it!

I really like Badly - 'oh she's out riding Badly' lol
 
I have had amongst others Dave, Mike, Jane, their stable names are derived from their registered names. I like human type names, not really into Misty or Shadow type names lol.
 
Naming horses: it's the bane of my life! With 12 - 15 foals born each year it's a real headache coming up with names and I have developed 'themes' for each mare, which does help (a bit!)

My best one last year was one of Indigo Macha Pride's foals - a colt - by Indigo Pure Arrogance! He HAD to be named Indigo Pure Hubris (his stable name is either Hughie - or Little A*sehole - because he was born with a VERY little one!! I had to put on my reading glasses to make sure he had one at all!)

But most have 'better' names: Katie's foals are called Charlie, Sally, Woodstock, Lucy, Snoopy and Linus (guess the theme?? And no - I'm NOT going to call the next one Peanuts!)

And Corraslira Cleo has had: Jazz King, Fascinating Rhythm, Lady Ella, Ridin' High and Sir John. (Cleo Laine fans will have spotted that one.)
 
I have a chilled out cob called Dylan, a nutty wb called zebedee (zebedee boing) a mule called surprize and my old mare is called Katie :)
 
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