Let’s say, hypothetically, that you were considering an import with a slightly unfortunate show name (and, indeed, a horse who had more than one full sibling with the same show name, one of whom looks physically similar, and was recently imported and kept the name), and you were considering renaming the aforementioned horse. Setting aside that I know some people think it is absolutely terrible luck to do that and they never would, here’s the question: like most WBs, this one’s studbook’s naming convention is that the horse has a name that starts with the first letter of his sire’s name. Would you feel constrained by or follow that convention in giving the horse a new show name for his new life stateside? For the sake of argument, we’re talking about a gelding, so there’s no issue about the names of any future offspring.
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