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  • #21
    One of my favorite fuel songs. And fits my personality

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    • #22
      The name of my forever/heart/best/cutest/sweetest horse. He's an OTTB that I've had for over 10 years.
      Let us eat, drink, and be merry. For tomorrow we die.

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      • #23
        My name is Renn. My Fuzzy Horse was named Renaissance. Those two things weren't related, so I made them related.
        "I'm not always sarcastic. Sometimes I'm asleep." - Harry Dresden

        Amy's Stuff - Rustic chic and country linens and decor
        Support my mom! She's gotta finance her retirement horse somehow.

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        • #24
          I've changed mine, oh, three times now. Yup, not kidding.

          But I think GingerJumper is here to stay... I'm a ginger, and I do the jumpers. (well, technically hunters too.) So really, it fits.
          Trying a life outside of FEI tents and hotel rooms.

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          • #25
            Mine because it is the name of our farm - not to be confused with the OP!
            Proud member of People Who Hate to Kill Wildlife clique

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            • #26
              Bugs= the name of my TB mare and the mother of my current horse, Frodo. Bugs-n-Frodo.
              ~Amy~ TrakehNERD clique
              *Bugs 5/86-3/10 OTTB Mare* RIP lovely Lady, I miss you
              *Frodo '03 Anglo Trakehner Gelding*
              My Facebook

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              • #27
                The best stallion (TB racehorse) to stand in the Pacific Northwest in the '90s-00s. Our horse just could not quite beat one of Slewdledo's babies. Well, we beat him twice, but he beat us 1, 2, 3...maybe 4 other times.

                (The "slewdle" part rhymes with "poodle" - then do.) NOT Slewd - Leh - Do, as a certain local race commentator pronounces it.

                He was from Seattle Slew's very first crop (1980), but he never raced. He died just a few years ago.
                It's a uterus, not a clown car. - Sayyedati

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                • #28
                  Mine accurately describes my riding.
                  Riding: the gentle art of keeping the horse between yourself and the ground.

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                  • #29
                    HuntJumpSC= well, kinda self-explanatory! It's been my email address forever~ wayyy back from like, '96 or so, when I made up my AOL user name. Since at the time I did both hunters & jumpers, and am an SC girl, it just fit, and well, it stuck. When I joined COTH many moons ago, it was just natural to use the same thing. Hehe!
                    Crayola posse~ orange yellow, official pilot
                    Proud owner of "High Flight" & "Shorty"

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                    • #30
                      Too many horses...too little $

                      'Nuff said!

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                      • #31
                        Elis is my horse and I love him… haha

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                        • #32
                          For my dream horse as a child 'Downlands Cancara', star of the LLoyds Bank TV ads which cemented my love of black horses

                          http://www.trakehners.uk.com/stallio...ownlandCancara
                          Horse Selling Hell
                          My Writing
                          People who think they know everything about horses know nothing

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                          • #33
                            My user name describes my mare Chloe!!

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                            • #34
                              "Oh, Rebecca"/"Ohhhhh, Rebecca"/"Oh, REBECCA!" is a common refrain from family, friends, and colleagues in regards to my endeavors (whether academic, equestrian, personal, professional). I have a particular flair for getting myself into silly situations across the board, hence the tone of consternation/exasperation
                              The Little Red Mare: French Curve

                              and my non-horse blog: oh, rebecca!

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                              • #35
                                Mine is the time I get up in the morning
                                "Anti-intellect and marketing, pretty, pretty, who needs talent
                                Crying eyes, we're so outnumbered, fight for the right to remain silent" Buck 65

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                                • #36
                                  quietann goes way back, before I got back into horses. There were 2 Ann(e)'s in my local social circle, and the other one is very loud, not in an unpleasant way, but it's a stunning contrast. She stayed Anne (or "Anne with an E for Emotional") and I became quietann.
                                  You have to have experiences to gain experience.

                                  1998 Morgan mare Mythic Feronia "More Valley Girl Than Girl Scout!"

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                                  • #37
                                    goose was a saintly school horse that i rode when i was about 10 years old. because of him i will always have an affinity for big bay geldings, and the memories of jumping him still give me goosebumps!
                                    Atlas: Jag älskar min häst!

                                    "Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

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                                    • #38
                                      Back in the wee days of the internet (1995), I needed a persona to hang out on IRC with an online 'wolfpack' made up of a bunch of friends. Back then, you could register your name online through InterNIC just like you could a domain, and it was much more like a CB handle than anything. Since I needed a wolf persona as a human, I chose Belgarath from David Eddings, and shortened it to Belg, and had it registered in May of '95 as my nick in InterNIC Whois database. It pretty much became my primary online identity and I've used it for a couple decades now.

                                      Fast forward a little, when I started playing online games, I ended up being a GM (Game Master)for one (1999-2007), and we had these "Dark Mare" (DM) creatures that the GM's could drive to challenge players in combat. I was widely regarded as the best, nastiest, and most powerful of all of them... I could regularly and singlehandedly take out 30 players, it was a wednesday night tradition to go drive the mares around and wait for the players to attack us :=)

                                      Fast forward to meeting my wife (2007)... I needed a horse.... if I was to be able to participate in the major portion of my wife's life After much looking, a friend had needed to divest herself of her horses, and sure enough, this one horse picked me... K & I basically exchanged engagement horses :=) I ended up on this big, beautiful Belg(ian) Mare named Dolly Madison (DM) who happens to one of the largest horses on the farm, rides medieval combat games, is her Herd's leader, and packs one heck of a wallop at the quintain!!

                                      Amazing how life hits you over the head with things like that, isn't it?

                                      At any rate, it only made logical sense that Belg made another appearance :=)
                                      Last edited by Belg; Oct. 3, 2011, 08:14 AM. Reason: typos
                                      Nudging "Almost Heaven" a little closer still...
                                      http://www.wvhorsetrainer.com

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                                      • #39
                                        Well, mine is because my mom married a feller called Jack Diamond and although he wanted to call me "Lucy Sky Diamond", my mom objected to the initials, which is a pity because I was born the same year as Sargeant Pepper, and I went on to fly an awful lot of flying things. I would have loved to have been Lucy intheSky Diamond. Hey Ho, I was called Catherine along with 98% of every other little girl that year and it all got shortened to Kate. I did eventually meet a nice man, also in the sky at the time, whose last name is "Wooten" hence the final moniker.

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                                        • #40
                                          Oliver is my wonderful little Shaded Silver Persian. Reed was my maiden name.
                                          What's wrong with you?? Your cheese done slid off its cracker?!?!

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