Friends have a mini named Rodeo. It isn't so much that it's bad, but I decided the name 'Buckets' fit him better, and call him that. They've begun to call him Buckets as well, after hearing me say it so many times. Persistence!
The worse name I have ever come across was on a racehorse.
His sire was Sound Track and the dam Creepy Crawly - taking the parental names guess what the foal was called?
Although it was a ghastly name he was well named!
Think of what a sound track was/is and then a creepy crawly.
A lot of good horses have been tortured by bad names. It seems especially with Minis and Shetlands, they get stuck with names like Fluffy, Sprinkles, or a combo name that is too painful for words. (Sprinkles Mc. Fluffypants, for example.) I've never renamed any of my horses in respect for the name being apart of who they are, but I have a feeling that any horse with a ridiculous name would thank me if they knew what it meant. I never call my horses by their names, anyway, but that's a whole 'nother thread's worth of musings. :lol:
Now I wish I remembered all the fox hunters names I worked with.
I remember ones name was Firewood. There was um... ShakeRag (great horse though!). I knew a polo ponie named Last. There was one named LuLu. They tried to change it to FiFi but I refused to. Posted via Mobile Device
My first horse's name was Stuffy, but I've also known a Booger, and even worse my sister use to call my nephew that, she has since stopped thank goodness (before he's old enough to know what she's calling him).
There's a male Gypsy Vanner at my barn and I guess the previous owner was trying to balance out his girly appearance in the show ring. It's Brendan of Erin...?? His barn name was Moffat or something just as bad.
I've known an ex-racehorse Nancy's Slave. And a lesson/little kid's horse whose show name was Sox Appeal...luckily none of them have questioned the meaning yet.
And of course, the usual pony/mini names: Cupcake, Cutie Pie, Sprinkles, Mr. Fluffy, Candy, Sugar, the usual.
None of these are horrible, but still...why name your horse something like that?
There's a male Gypsy Vanner at my barn and I guess the previous owner was trying to balance out his girly appearance in the show ring. It's Brendan of Erin...?? His barn name was Moffat or something just as bad.
Erin is a derivative of the Irish word "Éirinn, for Ireland, which is probably where he was bred and came from. Very common in breeds from Ireland.
I hate cutesy names for horses. OK for barn names but those registered names stay on those pedigrees for ever. The worst name I remember as a registered name, was 'Clodhopper'.
We had a donkey that was named Michael Angelo once. A friend of mine has three horses named Three Foot (he has three socks...not three feet), Stinky, and Fanny. Yeah.
And my own mare is named Sour. She was named that before I got her, and she already knows her name for driving so I can't quite change it :/ she lives up to the name too most of the time!
Our stunted yearling who came from a racing breeder was originally (and still is called by some people) BadaBing BadaBoom.
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