Talking about names

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What is the funniest you have heard in the ring.
We used to have one called Sorrow [he looked very sad as a foal at Stow fair] which was shortened to Soz. At a pony club rally,Peony [on here] was teaching and said he was Supersonic so he was regestered as Supersonic Soz.
We kept the Soz in other horses names at the time and had Little Soz and Absolute Soz, you can imagine what it sounded like over the load speakers.
We also had one called O O O which stood for Orrible Orange Object
 
A Tinge Of Ginge, I Dot Spots & Mr Perky Perkins...
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I used to ride a horse called Absolutely Arrogant and I've never heard a better suited name in my life!
Also knew one called Dad's Overdraft.

My facourite names are the pun names though such as Drunken Disorderly...especially fitting as he was ridden by an Irishman
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My daughters mare is registered as Howen Golden Showers....someone told me what a golden shower was and since then we put her in as Howengold....

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Oh my . . .!
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You can only hope the original owners didn't know!

A girl a friend of mine taught had a super jumper called "Daddy's Airplane" because that's what fell off the shopping list to buy him.

Best jumper name ever, in my opinion: Arrive Alive.
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This will likely get me kicked off the board but there's a hunt near Toronto called The Toronto and North York Hunt and I knew someone who called a horse "York Hunt". And yes, he knew what he was doing . . .
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We had a school horse named "Stopher" pronounced Stop Her, as apparently that's all the instructor said to anyone riding her for the first month. We had another, a VERY homely but wonderful mare, called Show Jumping Secret (for you pony book enthusiasts) because her original name was Dolly but when I brought her to the farm on trial my boss asked her name and I, not wanting the poor horse to be stuck with such a name, told her it was a secret. She misheard and wrote her on the feed chart as Secret. Her husband and I were both big fans of the book so we just expanded the name.
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We also had one named Kazoo, which didn't mean anything but I thought it was a great name.

I started two 3/4 sisters who looked almost identical except one had a white spot on her side - they were known in the barn as "Spot" and "UnSpot".
 
"drunkenly disorderly"
"aint misbehaving"
"beneath the sheets"

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try saying those "and here is X riding... "

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and mare riding at moment has reg. name "suprise me" - because asked owner what we should call her and she said suprise me
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OH is desperate for us to name a horse Fookin Well that way you would here a commentator say and here is x riding Fookin Well.

Needless to say none of ours have been given that name yet...
 
When I bought Oskar he didn't really have a stable name - they called him Bug, as in Ugly Bug. Poor boy
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. Maybe that explains his git behaviour - childhood trauma
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My friend evented a horse called An American Gigolo... "And in the ring now, riding..." But my absolute favourite by a long long way (kicking myself for not thinking of it) was a lovely eventer called Ich Heisse Peanut!! LOVE IT!
 
My horses name always get a laugh, and always gets commented on! He is called Godferbid
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Love "like a virgin"
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Drunken Disorderly is pretty cool too.
 
kit279, I know Ich heisse Peanut as he was on an EHOA clinic with us once. I've heard some strange pronunciations of it by commentators that obviously didn't do German at school.

Any Norfolk/Suffolk peeps remember one that Tim Davies had called "Badly".....and here's TD riding Badly! Couldn't have been further from the truth as he is v stylish.

TarrSteps, I love the Spot and UnSpot, but NotSpot could have been almost as good.
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