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Eventing
#81

My current guy is a dark brown/white pinto draftx with one blue eye that is called Davis (or Fat Man) in the barn and Devil’s Advocate in the ring–I figured the two coat colors and one blue eye would allow him to see both sides of something.

My old APHA/AQHA red dun gelding with roaning along his flanks and tail was Cajun in the barn and Cabestan’s Hart in the ring–the name was both taken from the Ezra Pound poem, The Cantos, and also a play on words regarding his coat color (fawn colored with spots). When I sold him last year, the buyer asked if his registered name was from the Pound poem, so I knew they’d have good Karma together!

#82

Ok I will play- Ya’ll are going to laugh!

My eventers:

Kid Gloves, my *** mare, and her name implied exactly how you had to handle her. She was known as Holly or Princess around the barn.

The Debutante, or Ivy around the barn. She is the filly out of Holly (above) and Windfall.

Sir Peach E. Keen, my palomino QHxTrak gelding. Known as Peaches or Peach around the barn. I know it is a girly name but his reg name was Gwyndav (he is a G line Trak) but he hated being called Davy, would pin his ears. So I changed it.

Sportski, or Champ, was an OTTB that was bought after Holly got injured. He never made it to an event due to intestinal cancer (WTF? Seriously?!?!) so he had to be put down.

There are a few more but they go back way into my past.

My current cowhorses are:

Cols Touch of Class, or TC around the barn. Coolest 18 yo cowhorse packer!! Went to a show this weekend (SHOT www.stockhorsetexas.org) and kicked butt in the working cow horse class and the ranch trail class! The working cowhorse class was almost as fun as galloping around an Advanced XC course. Here is a pic : http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/tx3dayeventer/TC1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/tx3dayeventer/TC2-1.jpg

Pretty Poco Bello, or Addi (short for Addison). I bought her at the sale barn and I think she is going to turn into a jam-up reined cow horse or cutter but I might event her as well. She is very small but is quick as a cat. She just turned 2 in May so she has not been started yet. I am going to wait until next Spring I think b/c she is so small.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/tx3dayeventer/addi1.jpg

#83

Barn Name - Flash Show name - Jumpin’ Jack Flash Racing Name - Flashandthunder
Dreamer Midsummers Night Dream Todds Bay
Gemini Confederate Gal Confederate Gal

#84

Came to me at 16 mos. as Dublin (named after Dublin here on the boards who we lost a few years ago) and I’m a Murphy, so two good reasons to keep it. She’s a TB/Paint tobiano, so I thought Irish Mosaic would be a good registered name. She’s not been to a show yet.

#85

JC reg as Mr Hobo Joe (hate it), barn name Sir, shown as Seattle Sir. I like alliteration (although I’m not sure I can spell it!) and wanted to pay respect to his breeding.

Had a thbd mare called Long Tall Sally which I liked and kept.

1st pony was James Cagney. He was such a little gangster! Unfortunatly it was around the time that crappy show “Cagney & Lacey” was on and someone bought a horse in my barn and called her Lacey. I didn’t think it was cute.

Other names I liked from the past: Pride, Hobbitt, Baron, Chips, Flip, Half Pint

#86

My first horse’s JC name is Purple Heaven. I changed that for competition to Heaven Forbid cause seriously, she could be perfect one minute and then be snorting dragons the next. I just call her Heaven around the barn.

My second horse’s JC name is Rockfish Willy. That one just seem to stick so he shows with it too. His barn name is Jack… long story on how he got that one.

#87

Zeus. Simple and easy to pronounce. Couldn’t come up with anything more fitting. His original name from his breeder was Mr. Ed. and that really didn’t fit.

#88

My horse’s registered name is DDA Shaq, barn name Shaq. His show name is Ants in My Pants due to the fact that his complete inability to stand still if he gets excited or nervous.

#89

Fun! I love picking names for our horses; I actually have a list I keep for the future!

My current horses:
Swift Level Sparrow, aka Taylor (as in Taylor Swift the singer). Conn/TB mare.
Sparrow’s Owen, aka Owen. Conn/Appendix gelding
Sparrow’s TipToes, aka Tippy. Conn/TB mare.

Yes, they’re all siblings

We also have:
Brambleridge Capability Brown, aka Cappy. Connemara gelding.
Bramblerdige Starr’s Mill, aka Miller. Welsh gelding. My mother insists that one of these days when he’s a famous hunter pony (he’s only 2) that they’ll announce that, “It’s Miller time!” when he enters the ring.

Some of my old favorites:
I had a JC TB mare that came with the name Ms Lady Longneck (pathetic, eh? Especially considering her dam’s name was Lady Longneck. Realllly original). I named her No Regrets and called her Greta.

We had a really dark Connemara filly (a dilute black), that we named Brambleridge Cinder Ella, aka Cinder.

We also had a Welsh colt that was born on the day we set our clocks forward, so he was named Brambleridge Spring Forward, aka Ford.

#90

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#91

The horse I’m leasing is a chestnut thoroughbred named Koda, but if I ever end up buying him, I want his show name to be “DC al Koda”.

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#92

My boy’s name is Sunny Cide Bay. He’s an OTTB. His dad is Apollo, who is out of Slewicide. His breeders were going to name him Sunny Cide, Sunny Side way already taken. Then they thought they were going to name him Solar Cide. Eventually they settled on Sunny Cide Bay. He just goes by Sunny.
My first horse’s name was San Diego Shaker, oh how I love that name. He’s 3/4 Connemara and 1/4 QH. The woman who put most of his eventing training found him in a field and brought him through the levels. Shaker was one of her first projects. She took that 14’2" weiner dog looking horse preliminary! When I got him he was 23 and he took me to my first events. We competed starter but that sucker still schooled novice with me. Somehow he wasn’t arthritic and just keeps going. He went training when he was like 21/22. He is now a school pony being leased by another little girl learning the ropes. He went xc schooling a couple weeks ago and popped over lots of BN jumps. He’s 27ish now.

#93

How does naming work in the US?

Our horses (in South Africa) are registered on physical passports, with a registered name. And that name is used to register with all the disciplines. So that might be your “show name” equivalent?

It’s rare for us to change this registered name, because there is a fee involved in transferring the records from and old passport to a new one (has to be done by a vet).

My horse is registered as Shoshone Ulrich, but I always thought that sounded very fuddy-duddy, so his barn name is Odin/Odie.

#94

with Morgans they are shown under their registered name if at a Morgan event… I guess you could call the horse a dog if you wanted if shown elsewhere but we have always shown and competed our horses under their registered name.

#95

:eek: 8+yo zombie thread.

@Curly_Feather Registered names can be changed - for a fee - with breed registries. Fee increases the longer you take to submit the change.

Seeing as I never contributed back in '08:

*TB came named Vernon - never registered with JC, but owner (who trained @ Arlington) told me if he had shown any speed he would have been Wings of Winter < after local stud Winds of Winter (his sire). He stayed Vern in the barn.
I showed him as Hey, Vern! - dating myself, as the Ernest T Bass movies had just come out when I got him :rolleyes:

*DH’s TWH came to us registered (Racking) Somebuddy’s Dream :disgust:
Tom named him Steppin’ Out for show, he remained Buddy in the barn

*My 1st TWH was registered TWHBEA - 10yo recently gelded - Cash’s Bay Threat < for Coin’s Hard Cash & Triple Threat bloodlines
He was always just Cash to me, showed him just once under that name

*COTH Giveaway, Australian WB (Hanoverian sire X Aussie Stock mare) registered Jaybee Altair with the barn name Buns :dead:
I never showed him, but named him Sam for my Dad & would have shown him as Don’t Tell Me - a favorite argument-ender of Dad’s :sadsmile:

*Hackney Pony freebie from my shoer came registered as Fox’s Brownberry from a local BN breeder
He was such a hellion when I got him @ 10yo I renamed him Naraku Kouma < rough translation from Japanese = Hell Pony

*Alleged (no registration or history) TWH given to me by a friend - he came gaited, now trots - is Harley, show name: He’s My Harley

*Gift To Me From Me 2yo mini was to be registered as Wyndfyre’s Missing in Action, breeder’s barn name: Houdini for his habit of escaping pasture
I renamed him Bugs for the white lining in his ears, show name: Wascally Wabbit

#96

In my mind her registered name is boring…Seattle Sugar. Goes by Sugar, Booger or Sugar Booger in the barn.

Show name: Her Sugar High…play on words for the announcer, “Widget riding Her Sugar High” or “Widget on Her Sugar High”.

To be honest, I am past just liking sweets. I have a straight up sugar addiction :lol:

#97

My last horse …call name Shiloh, show name Sharpe’s Diamond.

Someone back in his past called him George. he wasn’t no George. Lord knows what he started out as, he went thru so many owners.

RIP Shiloh/Sharpe’s Diamond - handsome wonderful boy. ? - 12/28/12

#98

My pony’s name is Bubbles, his show name is Cruising Altitude because he’s got like a drop of gaited blood in him, so sometimes he just gets into a groove in a gait and just cruises along. However, he’s such a bad drifter when we’re jumping that I’ve been joking about changing it to Tokyo Drift.

My mare is an OTTB, and I almost always honor their JC name by keeping it. Her JC name is Watt a Secret. I’m not super keen on it, so I’ve been considering changing it, maybe to like “Whiskey is my Wine,” or “Buck Around Find Out”

#99

My first pony that I did hunters with and then some eventing was named “Smart As” :rofl:

I then got a Trakehner mare as a 3yo that is registered (and was shown as) Aurelia NSF.

That mare is now in foal to EH Herzensdieb, and I have selected the name Abendwind for that foal :crossed_fingers:

#100

My Son’s horse: Show name Mr. President, barn name Teddy. Named after his favorite roll in a play he was in. He played “Teddy” in Arsenic and Old Lace, if you’re not frailer, the character thinks he is Theodore Roosevelt.
My mare is Garden Valley Gold, barn name Lexxie. Lexxie just cuz I liked it and the show name because she is by the stallion All The Gold and our farm is Garden Valley Eventing
My OTTB is Garden Valley Dreams, Dreams because his JC name is Fields Of Dreams, barn name is Maker because I got him from the Makers Mark Secretariat Center.
I love naming horses!
Past names were a pony named “Inside Voice” because her barn name was Whisper
“Country Club Cowboy” I turned my husband’s roping horse into an event horse.
“Ace of Spades” barn name Maverick a black and white paint horse. If you’ve seen the movie Maverick, You’ll get it!

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