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  • #81
    My daughter's horse is named "Snickers". Suits him to a "t" since he's dark chocolate brown with a caramel-colored muzzle, he's unbelievably sweet, and just a little nutty...
    My horse is bomb-proof.
    Everything else scares the crap outta him, though...

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    • #82
      My daughter's jumper had the unfortunate barn name of "Crackhead" when we got him from the track. He is now Tyler for no very good reason except teenage daughter said "he looks like a Tyler".

      His show name is Ghost of a Chance. His first trainer wanted to have him put down and said he was dangerous and not athletic. He had "a ghost of a chance of ever amounting to anything". (She also called him White Trash but we decided against using that as a show name. )

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      • #83
        When I got Kizzy, the people we bought her from called her Kismet, or Kizzy for short. And Kismet means fate. And it really fit her because it we were actually looking for a large pony at the time. And another girl at the barn actually found her, but Kizzy was too young, and had absoulutly no training when we got her. So we drove out to where she was...and she was jus staning in a pasture...and I thought to myself "thats the horse I want". So we took her back to my barn to see how she went. We free lunged her in the arena over a little cross rail to see how she jumped. So we chase her over it...and boy was that an awful sight. My mom kinda looks at me like "no...you dont want this horse" so we tryed it again...and boy could that mare jump. She was the roundes, cutest jumper I have ever seen. So we bought her right then and there. Anyways...we never did keep Kismet as her show name as there was another horse on the circuit with that. So her show name turened out to be Diamond Girl...like the song. But if I do ever show her...I think I will change it to Kismet.

        *Angie*

        Gray and proud!!

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        • #84
          Then my ponys name was Pebble Beach. I never liked that name, the people that we bought her from named her that after the golf course...horrible huh? We just called her Pebbles (which was perfect cuz she was gray with fleabites). But everyone thought we called her pebbles after pebbles from the flinstones. There was a lady at the barn that would call us Pebbles and BamBam...and I just happend to be BamBam. I should have changed her name...cuz I hated Pebble Beach.

          *Angie*

          Gray and proud!!

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          • #85
            Both of mine came with their names:

            Cool definitely thinks he is. I showed him as Street Smart which also fits. His TB registered name is General Putnam, named for the newscaster who was his breeder.

            Star's registered name is Aldebaran, which is a star as well as the name of one of the horses in Ben Hur (the youngest and the swiftest, if I remember correctly). He has a blaze (and Cool has a star) which creates some confusion. When he came into the barn, before I bought him, they were calling him Baron b/c they thought the end of his name was pronounced that way. I insisted on it going back to Star after I bought him.

            Other horses in our family history have included Mariah (picture a large black horse), Heffalump (a large ugly appaloosa), Sadaat (named by his previous owner in honor of the historical figure) and Angel (who wasn't--I showed her as Hellzapoppin')
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            • #86
              <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by TracyG:
              My mare is named Weltenschouung which is "philosophy of life" or "world view" in German. Unfortunately, it's spelled wrong, but hey we get the idea. Her barn name is Woms, short for Wombat. I tried to change it when I bought her, but she knows it and so it has stayed.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

              Might that be the dutch word for Weltanschauung ?

              Alexandra



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              • #87
                About a month ago, I was at an auction and bought a 10 month old colt off of the meatman who had the winning bid.

                When bringing him home that night I joked with my friend that I saved the horse a trip to Europe ('cause that's where he would have been heading in a cellophane wrapper). It stuck so his show name is Trip To Europe with his barn name being Trippeur.

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                • #88
                  My horse was named after Betsy Ross actually...her barn name is Betsy. The barn we bought her from was named Federal Farm and all of the horses had names that went along with government and history.

                  She came with her show name, Forever South. Her dad's name was Capital South and her mom's name was A Joy Forever, so it just came out of those two names.

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                  • #89
                    You have a mare called Kizzy? OMG, did you ever see or read "Roots?"

                    Robby

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                    Speak your mind, be persuasive"
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                    • #90
                      I came up with Irresistible Exchange for Mia because of how my trainer ended up with her. She went to try horses at a sale barn and tried Mia. After jumping her over a crossrail, she got one of those looks like "I have to have her", so she traded one of her horses for Mia.

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                      • #91
                        Arggg. Robby had to bring up the Roots thing.
                        I cringed when I saw PsycoTBs post of her horse being named Kizzy (ignored it the first time.) Bad child hood memories. My father used to call me Kizzy Lou all the time as a teenager. You can't imagine how much I hated it.

                        My horse's name is Sigal Starlight. I only call her by her full name when I am making fun of her because Starlight is a cheezy middle name for her.

                        Sigal is a little purple flower on a tree in Hebrew. She was owned by some people that were jewish and the father of the family named her Sigal, his little daughter wanted to name the baby horse Starlight...hence, Sigal Starlight arose.

                        Ironically, before I found out the meaning, I had chosen purple as my cross country color.

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                        Kristen

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                        • #92
                          My mare's name is Evariste, she came with it and her barn name, Loretta.

                          She is a big bossy chestnut girl so Loretta suits her quite well. She is usually referred to as "The Lovely Loretta", and she likes that quite a bit .

                          Evariste must have been because they needed to do something with an E. I've looked the name up before and discovered that the most well known Evariste was a very eccentric French mathematician:

                          "Evariste Galois' school reports began to describe him as singular, bizarre, original and closed. It is interesting that perhaps the most original mathematician who ever lived should be criticised for being original. A teacher reported: Intelligence, marked progress but not enough method."

                          The guy ended up dying from wounds he sustained in a duel when he was 21.

                          Knowing my mare as I do the name does suit her. She is very opinionated and bright but definately does things her way. Nobody ever pronounces it correctly at shows. Maybe she is crabby because she has a boy's name that nobody can say properly...

                          So is it bad luck to change your horses name? Or does that only apply to boats?

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                            #93
                            <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Robby Johnson:
                            You have a mare called Kizzy? OMG, did you ever see or read "Roots?"

                            Robby<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                            LOL-I leased a horse about 15 years ago and her name was Kizzy, and named for the roots character. Personally, I always wanted "Chicken George"

                            On a side note, last night when the vet came, he took one look at will and said "Look at that mane! It's great...he looks just like Bob Marley!" (remember he's black).....so, the whole time he was getting injected and stuff, the vet would call him Bob or RastaMan...it was funny. He really is kindof a laid back dope smokin' kind of a guy (the horse, not the vet ).....rasta man

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                            • #94
                              Cree's Tom Boy - Daughter of Cree a son of Northern Dancer. Boy what a tomboy she was. Built like a warmblood and boy did she like to get dirty.

                              Im A Skip (ApHC)- From Skipper W and Impressive blood

                              Miss Orphanannie Two (QH/TB)- poor filly was an orphan foal from birth, the Two comes from Two Eyed Jack

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                              • #95
                                We have two:

                                A TB named Cache Buffer. For you computer geeks, yes, it is a computer term. He was born in Washington state, so I'm thinking some Microsoft dude was breeding TB's out there.

                                An 18.1 warmblood named Denali, for the national park that is home to Mt. McKinley. His name when we got him was "Big Sexy" after a wrestler.

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                                • #96
                                  William is "Playing By Heart," after the Gillian Anderson movie. He was going to be named after it, regardless, but it worked out that his entire deal is very heart/love related (big red horse, big heart on forehead, born on Valetine's, etc). Lucky for him, the movie was renamed from the working title, "Dancing About Architechture.."

                                  Kate is "Kiss Me Kate" because I am not at all original - I'd change back to her "real" name, which I'm really starting to prefer ("A Wink and A Nod") but all of her stuff is already monogrammed, and I don't show her anymore anyway. Maybe I'll work her real name in when I breed her..

                                  I have no idea why Toga is Saratoga, since he was born in Texas. I guess I could ask, but, eh.. it fits him. The rest of his name relates to the breeder and farm name - all of his brothers have the same in their names, too.
                                  \"A redhead and an appaloosa mare... heaven help us should one of you get mad...\"

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                                  • #97
                                    Biarritz= little town in France.
                                    Liz = from the "L" line of mares, with her grandmare (granddam) named Elizebeth L.

                                    aaaaaand, now my Ms don't work... ost of the tie...

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                                    • #98
                                      Delighted- There is a Saratoga, Texas, so maybe that's where it came from?

                                      We have Foxhunter whose registered name is Cap'n Scrunchy. Enough said right? Barn name is Max or Sexy.

                                      Polo's registered name is Hollow Ridge, but he often gets called Junior.

                                      We turned Golf Course Spy into Somerset's Spy Guy barn name Big Mac (he is 17.2).

                                      Poor QH, PG barn names are Dancer/Fat Boy, registered name Achey Breaky Dancer. We looked at his papers wrong the first time and thought his name was Hawaiian Dancer, so we were going to call him Maui, but that was his sire...sigh.

                                      Shiloh is registered as Scary Fog, but gets called Big 'Un by his owner.

                                      Kamo's registered name is Kamokazie Ed, the Ed part gets dropped for his show name.

                                      I still want to name a pony Freak of Nature.
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                                      • #99
                                        <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by texasgirl29:
                                        Delighted- There is a Saratoga, Texas, so maybe that's where it came from?

                                        <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                        Hmm.. just checked the map, and it's pretty far away from where he was bred. He was supposed to be a racehorse, so I always assumed it was a Saratoga NY thing.. maybe I WILL ask his breeder, one of these days.. Thanks!

                                        (oh, and Capt'n Scrunchy? A-dorable name..)
                                        \"A redhead and an appaloosa mare... heaven help us should one of you get mad...\"

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                                        • #100
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