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  • #21
    Boysee (he came with it)
    b*tch mare (for obvious reasons)
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    • #22
      <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Just My Style:
      I remember a horse at the barn named "Rest In Peace" and they called him RIP (or "Ripper"). Not exactly a name that I would choose. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


      Ummm he sounds... lovely....

      Long queue to ride him then?
      In the swiftness of my darkness I whisper to thunder, I am patient as stone, as wild as lightening, the very symbol of surging potency and the power of movement for I am THE SPIRIT OF THE HORSE

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      • #23
        Well, my arabian's barn name is "Phaxxton" (pronounced "Paxton").

        My other guy is Joey - not an unusual name at all, but I never met another horse named Joey (I still don't think Joey counts as unusual).

        I had a painted who's barn name was "Bash" - for Sebastian.

        I also used to ride a mare named Castano (Spanish for "brown").


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        • #24
          Went to look at a sale horse a few years ago, got to the barn and the owner brought him out. Nice looking, etc. His name was TROUBLE - needless to say passed on him.

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          • #25
            So my BM breaks race horse babies so they don't really have names when they come to her. Recently she has named some only in the past few months:

            Snerd
            Moose
            Dorf
            Red Rat
            Bessie

            Poor horses are probably looking forward to their registered names!
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            The sun on your withers, the wind in your mane....

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            • #26
              snap i think i like your trainer!

              some old ones from camp:
              why not (purchased from a slaughter auction, camp director said 'why not')
              waldo (which isn't funny in itself, but waldo and why not are best friends, and are never w/out each other, so you'd get used to saying waldo and why not, and one day linzi, a girl i worked with, called them wydo and wal-nuts...which stuck...)

              my best friend when i was younger had a palomino gelding whos name was Dam#it...yep...so she'd go out the the field and yell "come here ...."

              we had a colt at my barn a few years ago and he was, well, a little 'slow'...and crooked when he came out (which turned out to be because he's HUGE now) - but i started calling him Tardo...and it stuck...oops

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              • #27
                I recall showing against a rider who was atop a horse named "Read The Will."
                Also during the 70s when Neil Sedaka was big, a gal showed her horse, "Laughter In The Rain." People rolled their eyes on that one.
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                • #28
                  Can I play too?

                  L'il Evil (She was an independent little cuss and rotten to her dam)

                  E-2 (L'il Evil's sister, and I couldn't think of anything to call her)

                  Tink (He came with the name- he wore a bell as a foal because his dam was blind)

                  Vanna Banana (Had a banana shaped star as a baby, and Vanna rhymed)

                  Glow in the Dark (Palomino - Vanna Banana was scared of the "Glow in the Dark" baby- the name stuck)

                  Pony Thing (Grade mare I never liked well enough to give a real name)

                  Homer (Kinda short for Homely- he wasn't a pretty baby)

                  All the rest have "normal" names.

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                  • #29
                    Friends of mine have a gorgeous qh named "Really Nice Leggs" and call her "Leggs" for short. WTF kinda name is that!!!
                    *Ride and let ride...*

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                    • #30
                      A friend of mine bought a young TB by the name of Kuller Teevee...quickly changed to Nottingham.

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                      • #31
                        My friend, Patty Peckham, had a horse that she kept at our house when we were both teenagers.

                        His name was Neibon, which is Japanese for "Second".

                        He came with that name, an nobody knoew WHY. She tried several times to change it, but the new name never "stuck" and he stayed Neibon.

                        I have never heard of another one.
                        Janet

                        chief feeder and mucker for Music, Spy, Belle and Tiara. Someone else is now feeding and mucking for Chief and Brain (both foxhunting now).

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                        • #32
                          A friend of mind named her dales pony Shetan (devil) and boy oh boy did it suit him!

                          Another was a little palamino pony, short stubby legs and as fat as a barrell, his name is Tubby I love that one!
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                          • #33
                            We had Snap, Leggs, Misstep, Miss Lil, Toye, CG (who used to be Fendi!), Bodi and Bird. My trainer didn't want any confusion in her barn!
                            Full-time bargain hunter.

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                            • #34
                              Well of course Snap is a unique name!....but it does fit my girl because she does Snap when you touch her belly.
                              Proud Member of the 'Irrelevent Posters Clique'
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                              • #35
                                I new a nasty-tempered old TB gelding called Quasi, short for Quasimodo -- his withers were so high he looked like the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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                                • #36
                                  Too funny I as well have a horse named Chef! I purchased him from Canada where Chef is french for "Chief"; thus "Chef" being an english word I kept it! He is a big dark Percheron so I always think of him as the the character on South Park - Chef...

                                  <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Chef:
                                  Anyone have a horse with an unusual barn name? Let's see how many truly unique names we can find.

                                  The two most unusual names for horses I have owned are:

                                  Chef
                                  Donald </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
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                                  • #37
                                    Zimmer - big grey TB

                                    Perhaps - Warmblood filly (the owner named her this for her daughter, as in Perhaps I'll let you keep her)

                                    Handy - QH mare. Her owner is the "Handy Horsewoman"

                                    A string of Rudolph wannabes -- Donner, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, etc.

                                    Wicker
                                    Wahtoosi
                                    Windwalker
                                    Can-Can
                                    Unica
                                    If you cannot set a good example, at least serve as a terrible warning....

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                                    • #38
                                      Rojo (a red roan filly)
                                      Boogie
                                      Scooter
                                      Nipper
                                      Turbo and Charger (a pulling team)
                                      Power and Stroke (A pulling team)
                                      Briggs and Stratton (A pony pulling team)
                                      Lostfarming in Idaho
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                                      • #39
                                        My mom named my TB (without my approval) Simon Sez, and called him Simon. Fine for a pony, not a Junior Hunter prospect. So I started calling him Goose and it stuck. He'd only respond to Goose, that really got back at her.

                                        Other unique but not bad:
                                        Yale (Gorgeous bay Arabian)
                                        Cru (reg. Grand Cru)
                                        Very (I have no idea where it came from)
                                        Mariah
                                        Lollipop (TWH mix the sweetest old thing)
                                        Binkie (His original name was Rocky, but since my horse was Rocky and mine was at the barn longer my trainer made his owners switch it... to Binkie)
                                        Mutant (ugh... he was a freak of nature)
                                        T-Two (no idea)
                                        Scandal
                                        Touche
                                        Greystroke

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                                        • #40
                                          Oh this one is easy.
                                          The stallion in Germany - Pik As
                                          Summit Sporthorses Ltd. Inc.
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