Name Ideas for Rescued Mare!

[napalmbright]

I’m taking in a neglected TB, but she has no name! So coming to you lovelies for some name ideas, barn and show.

About her:
9yo mare
Chestnut with one white stocking and a white snip
Taken as payment by a loan shark, who locked her in a stall for 4 months
Hestitant around people, but she wants to reach out still

About me:
Adult ammy
PhD candidate
Cellist
Science nerd
Ornithologist

I’m a fan of Latin phrases…
Tempus fugit (time flies)
Amor fati (love of fate)
Ad meliora (towards better things)
Folie a deux (madness shared by two)

[cloudyandcallie]

Does she have a lip tattoo? If so then you can find out her registered name and go from there. I had a contest at the boarding barn to name Callie when I deciphered her lip tattoo and wasn’t pleased with her Jockey Club name.
TB mares are so smart. You will have fun.

[napalmbright]

@cloudyandcallie

Does she have a lip tattoo?

No tattoo, unfortunately! I don’t think she is from the track. But the stall she was locked up in was at a standardbred race track

Also love the name Callie! Good choice.

[betonbill]

Maybe she’s a standardbred???

[endlessclimb]

You made me google birds.

What about Cassin, for a cassin’s finch? Call her cassie in the barn.

[MissCoco]

Bird Themed:
Rara or Rarissima Avis (Rare or Rarest bird) - Ava as barn name
Alouette - lark in French
Kestrel
Lark or Skylark
Robin
Wren (Or Adrienne, with Ren/Wren as a barn name)
Linnet (or a variant spelling)

Music themed:
Beatrice - Beatrice Harrison was a cellist who recorded in her garden while nightingales sang along
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Harrison
Snow Maiden - Rimsky-Korsakov’s song Snow Maidens features the cuckoo’s call

Aria
Allegro
Capriccio
Chanson
Minuet
Nocturne
Sonata
Vivace

Do you have any favorite cellists with first names you like?

On that theme, I have named some pets after female scientists:
Rosalind (Franklin)
Lise (Meitner)

Since you don’t tell us what your PhD is in, list of female scientists (20th century)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_scientists_in_the_20th_century

[cloudyandcallie]

I’d name her Cello.
Standardbreds have lip tattoos also so I guess she didn’t race
i have friends whose real names are Lark and Avis both in Atlanta.
The cello is a difficult instrument to play! Lucky mare to get a talented owner. Kid who won in the name my mare contest got $20.

[napalmbright]

@MissCoco

Bird Themed:
Rara or Rarissima Avis (Rare or Rarest bird) - Ava as barn name
Alouette - lark in French
Kestrel
Lark or Skylark
Robin
Wren (Or Adrienne, with Ren/Wren as a barn name)
Linnet (or a variant spelling)

Music themed:
Beatrice - Beatrice Harrison was a cellist who recorded in her garden while nightingales sang along
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Harrison
Snow Maiden - Rimsky-Korsakov’s song Snow Maidens features the cuckoo’s call

Aria
Allegro
Capriccio
Chanson
Minuet
Nocturne
Sonata
Vivace

Do you have any favorite cellists with first names you like?

On that theme, I have named some pets after female scientists:
Rosalind (Franklin)
Lise (Meitner)

Since you don’t tell us what your PhD is in, list of female scientists (20th century)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_scientists_in_the_20th_century

Your list is amazing!

[luckycricket123]

@betonbill

Maybe she’s a standardbred???

A 9 year old standardbred would be likely to have a freezebrand. Lip tattoos are very uncommon in younger standardbreds.

Fun fact, as of last year, standardbreds are now microchipped rather than freezebranded.

[cloudyandcallie]

Years of Latin in public school and then law…I’ve always liked Stare Decisis
or Lapin or Moi Aussi --French and Latin and German etc
hmm which German or Austrian composer liked the cello? I grew up on daily symphonic music. What was the duck’s name in Peter and the Wolf?

[Cruiser12]

Jaquimo was the bird from Thumbelina

[Larksmom]

I vote for Lark!:D:D

[Groom_amp_Taxi]

Yoyo… for you know…

[FlaxenChestnut]

I love that you’re giving her a home! Congratulations on your new partner! (Team chestnut mare here. ) Based on her history, I love the idea of Ad meliora for her show name. You could call her Amelia, Elora, Addie, Mellie, etc. for her barn name.

[2DogsFarm]

Invenio Soccus (Found your sock in Latin)

Piaf for Edith Piaf the Little Nightingale
(tongue-in-cheek variation: Piaffe)

@cloudyandcallie Sasha was the duck in P&W
”‹”‹

[napalmbright]

I’ve gone with Ad Meliora with Aura as a barn name! She arrives tomorrow!!