Mine is named after a red wine from a Chateau in the the Haute Medoc region of France, Sociando.
I remember admiring the Op's horse when I first saw pictures of him, he's lovely!
My old mare was called Nebo Gypsy and when we bred from her decided to keep it really simple and called her foal Megan, she became Megan V1 on her registration documents. I also have two miniatures they are called Cefn Glan Rosebud or Rosie and Pencarnan MayaMoon or Maya. Just put a deposit on a third miniature and have named her Pencarnan Gwenllian, Gwen at home. She will be arriving later in the year when she is weaned. Love choosing names for the animals but don't always get it right and realise that a little late!
Reading this thread with interest. I am surprised at only one mention of a registered prefix. It is of course not essential, but in the goat world, most owners/breeders have a prefix against which another name is added. This means that everyone can have a goat called 'Polly', but all the registered Prefix names are unique as the registered name becomes 'Prefix' Polly.
Does the horse world not make as much use of this mechanism?
It prob is the breeders name as it's the road name of where he was born (and 2min from the producer who I bought him from). However if I lived on Warbarton Street I couldn't be using that as a prefix..........!
He's got some nice names on his passport pedigree and there would be so much scope for something exciting.
I still like Roopert Bear though as he so suits it
One of my pals came up with a brilliant show name for her new horse but in the end never used it. Would have been a hoot to hear the commentors having fun with the name - Bucking Frilliant!
My mare was called ronnies girl... Eurgh! She was from tryptonic and tobougg so surely they could have thought of a better name. Her stable name fas rosie (equal eurgh) so she was just ro to me.
My other little lad was called bluebell, who names a steel grey cobby stallion bluebell? Serriously? So then I named him trilby.... He really suited the name, that or trill
I currently have a My Harlequin II and Ibbe Polka Amouretta
Pretty boring tbh :/
Had a Ulaine, Whos Joker, Catch me if you can, Moonshine eclipse, out of the blue II, Ice Cool Lad, Copenile Gap (not sure on spelling). Oh I had a Pie O My!
I have named 3 of mine - Olly became Oliver Twist after I changed it from Pickles (!), my clydesdale x was Mary Poppins as she was a really "nanny" of a horse, and my opinionated welshy was called Throwing a Paddy - we wanted to include her old owners name after he died as he was a lovely bloke and a much missed friend.
Dolly's passport just days Molly! (we think her name "Molly" got lost in translation at some point!!) we've given her a show name of Dolly Mixtures! How do I find out if she's ever been registered with another name? I had to get a duplicate passport, so it's a very basic Heinz passport!!!! RM x
Our 2 yo colt is called Four Seasons. Didn't realise there is a chain of restaurants with that name.
His mother's father was Wolfgang as in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father is Vivaldi. Name had to begin with F and so we came up with a musical name. Will be brilliant if we ever get to ride a Freestyle to Music with him. Google 'Four Seasons' and Vivaldi' to see what I mean.
My mare's stable name is Star, her registered name is 'Peugeot' .... Yes... Like the car! Funny thing is she was born in 98, not registered until 2005 so I have no ideas as to why they came up with the name! Had many people have a good laugh at it
I had a shire cross a few years ago who's passport had him called mr jingle with jingle bells in brackets so assume it had been changed or that was his registered name. I called him jack though as there was no way I was shouting that out!