Really, really wrong horse names...

I've also known a Winston and a Harry.

Didn't some HHO member recently acquire a horse named Jesus? We were having a laugh here, imagining a show announcer saying, "And the next competitor is.... Jesus."

"No, sorry, what's the horse's name again?"

I knew someone years ago who used "In the Nude" as her horse's show name, so the announcers were saying, "And next to enter the ring is So-and-so, riding In the Nude."
 
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Used to know someone who had a small grey fuzzy 12hh games pony- called Arkle. They also had a big IDx called Bubbles!

My old horse was called Plenty (not named by me). Apparently, she was a character in a John Wayne film. Never been a believer in changing their names so it stuck.

Next door neighbours had one called Killer. Show name was Killdown *something*

Also known an Elton, Fimble, James and Godfrey.
 
I love this thread! I have a Bruce - not named by me, and did consider changing it but I didnt in the end. Suits him! I have also known a Nigel, Trevor, Hugo, Maggie etc etc. My dogs are Oscar and Toby (also horses names from my childhood!). I love the name 'dave'
 
Sarah_K said:
Used to know someone who had a small grey fuzzy 12hh games pony- called Arkle. They also had a big IDx called Bubbles!

My old horse was called Plenty (not named by me). Apparently, she was a character in a John Wayne film. Never been a believer in changing their names so it stuck.

Next door neighbours had one called Killer. Show name was Killdown *something*

Also known an Elton, Fimble, James and Godfrey.
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:D:D I ahd a 'Killer'. She was originally Tequilla Sunrise which I hated so called her 'Quilla', needless to say, big yard, twisted humour and her grumpy food time face it became 'Killer'. She never actually hurt anyone on the yard I might add! :rolleyes:
 
I know a Heathcliff....you can imagine the hilarity when his owner calls him in the field! One bright spark who lives in the houses at the bottom of the field has even taken to calling "Cathy" in reply :D

ETA I do know a woman with a couple of lusitanos called Xaile and Obelisco, which translate as Shawl and Obelisk :p
Oh and my own mare is called Lou, which always results in young kids, having asked what she's called, going "like a toilet?" :D
 
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Some of the best at my old yard,
Clive, Ted, Nigel, Geoffrey, Pete, Dave, Ed, Lucy, Bruce, Bert and many more that I can't remember!
Cutest name we had was Jampot, who was about a million years old and blind in one eye! :D kids and instructors loved him! :D
 
mine used to be called willie...didnt find out til.after i bought him and changed his name, wasnt changing it back. similar with my mare, she used to be called Millie.

had i known their names and not changez them i would have ended up with a Willie and a Millie lol
 
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i used to know a woman who had a horse called Muffin, sounds innocous, but was shortened to MUff, lots and lots of jokes from her v camp YOs -
given your muff a good workout
clipped your muff for you
:D:D:D:D:D

wrong but for very different reasons
Climax for tackle, its a horse at the race yard i work at, i cannot imagine what anyone was thinking:rolleyes:
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someone i know bred a horse and named it muffin, (passport name was something darko though)
 
Known Rupert, Nigel, Roly Poly, Baldrick (shire x), Bam-Bam (git), Verdict, Russell (dangerous), Harmony (anything but), Marmalade
 
Mine is called squirrel....cute for a fat poby perhaps but for a smart 16.2hh warmblood? But his old owner renamed him as he was called Damien - not sure which is worse!

Where I used to work we had some crackers - VIP, Teammate, Gee-Gee....at current yard we have a Donut, who is 17hh but he is so thick is suites him to the ground...oh and we have a 4* horse called Sprout
 
Also remember a Maggot & Ugly Bug (registered name). Poor boy when he was born breeder (who owned stallion) refused to put stallions name on passport & decided he was so chunky (what did she expect using a heavy cob mare??) & ugly he was registered as 'ugly bug', known as ug-bug. shame was he turned out a nice boy. Anyone owns a chestnut gelding by that name out of a mare called Jasmine I'll tell you who his sire is!
 
a friend has a little dartmoor hill pony this is skewbald and about 10hh. his passport name is yobbo, he is now named tommy

form my old riding school, roxanne, sox (known as rox and sox), parker (nosey parker), jamie, dexter, charlie, arthur, bertie, dale, scotty (fat cob mare), maverick,

some i know now, rudey, standley, woodie, sampsom, ross, kitty, limerick (not with us now)
 
On a ranch holiday a few years back, my son's horse was called Fish!

At the yard , there's a horse called Well Done (makes me hungry when I hear his name, as that's how I like my steak cooked! Regular steak that is, not horse lol though they do eat horse here!!). He's put down on the turnout list as WD, and I so want to put 40 next to it but no-one would get the joke lol
There's also a Tequila, nice name but whenever I see her I get the song of that name stuck in my head.
 
Had a donkey called Rodney, also knew a pair of carriage horses called Eric and Ernie and a pair who were both called Maggie. Also knew a colt who didn't have a name but was bit manky so we nicknamed him Manquee. Also Patty, Michaela, Yum Yum, Jason, Simon, Stephan, Oliver, Gemma, Sally, Myfanwy, Basil, Lolly (a 17hh horse, not a pony as you would imagine)
 
We've had a Frank, Kevin and a Wesley in work :) more recently have had a Hamish! There was an Eric when I first started too, and I vaguely recall a Keith?!

I had a foal called Digby who went to a new home and is now known as Nobby as well :)
 
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