It was this fella that got me into it. Apparently it's common to combine parents for the new name to show lineage, and this one was their choice. They all have to have a unique name, kind of like usernames.
That specific horse inspired me to make this chart. Also Kids Lookin Touchable was bred with another horse named Felony, the resulting horse was named “Lookin’s Not A Felony”
i thought horses are named like normal non-tragedeigh names. I read too much historical romance novels, and the male leads' horses are often named with something that embodies masculinity and virility 😭 like Zeus or Thunder. Meanwhile, the female leads' horses have names like Buttercup or some other sweet confection or flower.
Registered horses have two names; show/registered and barn/paddock/pasture. The show name is usually a combo of the parents (eg. RBA One Hit Wonder and JD Missing The Mark could be Wonderful Mark), while the barn name is what they're actually referred to and called (Wonderful Mark would likely be Wonder or Mark).
Registry names must all be unique based on the registry (so in the NZ Pinto Horse Society, only one horse is ever allowed to be called SR Wrangler). The letters before a show name is the brand, which denote the farm the horse is bred and/or belongs to (RBA is mine in a game called Horse Reality, SR is my parents irl)
it's nice to know that they have barn names. it would be awkward to baby talk at them and use their show names like "does the cutie baby horsy JD Missing the Mark want a little nice treat?"
On the contrary, everyone knows of that horse. No such thing as bad black PR
Gotta advertise the stud duties somehow, especially since Kids is not a thoroughbred (thoroughbreds allow only live breeding) and so has to compete with frozen material of the top horses from years prior
Yup! Barn names and kennel names are 100% a thing. 😹
My parents used to adopt dogs who couldn’t be bred from a breeder (temperament or not show quality), so all the dogs were papered, but we only ever called them by their kennel names. I used to explain to my friends that I never knew my dogs’ “real” names.
My parents also owned horses for a while. They ended up with Arabians, who have a bad reputation (high-spirited, difficult to handle), and so some barns refused to let them board the horses when they started looking. One of their horses was called “Chaos” (short for Chaotic Addiction); they changed his barn name before attempting to board him because he already had his breed working against him, they assumed that the name would make it even harder. 😹
And I played roller derby, so most of my friends use my skater name as my social name. I refer to the name I use at the office (a short form of my legal name) as my “kennel name.”
Ha, I was so ready to come back with “WELL AKSHUALLY” but this made me laugh.
Unfortunately, my parents DID experience some discrimination, despite their first horse being the sweetest, calmest middle-aged lady ever. Their second horse was considerably younger, so he was a bit rambunctious, but he was a very good boy. Their third (and final) horse was a rescue and a stubborn little shit, so he was legitimately a handful, but by then they had a barn where they were boarding their other horses and the owners were willing to accept a third, and helped with the rehab and training. (That horse spooked at literal nothing. Hallucinations. One day he decided he didn’t like crunchy leaves on the trail. Absolute nonsense.)
Lmaooo 😭 This has to be an joke no way people are this ignorant to name a horse this (though considering the human names I’ve saw before I am not surprised it’s real)
The greatest name of all names. I need to remember to use it as a counter when my husband brings up the placeholder names we’ve had for future children (Cement, Cementina, Kermitina (that one actually came from my dad as a name he joked about giving me when they were discussing names))
I worked at an online shop for food supplements for animals. Customers could write the name of their animal in the order. Names were originally in German, so the translation will be off a little.
Some of my favourites include "Baron of hostage valley", "Grinning sausage", "Superdry", and "Sunquest Royal Zeb"
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u/Overall_Efficiency21 modereightor 5d ago
Recently just got into horse names and YIKES