Unusual barn names

[JoZ]

I just sold a gelding whose barn name was Chaser. I was going to name him “Regal Bar Tender” for his APHA name so I thought the bar/chaser/drink connection was cute.

Then instead I named him “Sure To Be Spotted”. So no connection to his (already established) barn name at all.

I usually wait for barn names to occur to me after working with the horse or foal, and I usually go for human names. One exception – Folly was so named because I did NOT need another horse (and she was a 3-in-1 package, foal at side and bred back… folly indeed!).

I like foal barn names to have the same first letter as their dam’s barn name. So Folly has had Frankie, Fletcher and… Phoebe. OK, the sound is right even if the letter is wrong! Not sure I’ll be able to do it with this year’s baby, I’ve just about run out of ideas.

[Mosey_2003]

For some odd reason my horses always end up either Bubba or Bubby if it’s a mare. Dunno This one is Bubba, and Booger and Fuzz Butt when he won’t get his big gluteous out of my way :lol: Although he’s Pike on his vet records. The guy I got from called him PEEPEE!!! :eek: I refuse to call my horse that. :no:

[RacetrackReject]

Fat Bastard. No, seriously, that was his barn name.

My Tb “WakiNomad” is known as Wakerdoodles.

[Wayside]

I have two horses with boring barn names “Stan” and “Sadie”, and two with unusual ones “Ilen” and “Pody”.

Ilen’s registered name is Silent Debut, and Pody’s is Amira Podruga. Amira might have been a cuter name than Pody, but I believe most of her sisters were also Amira somethingoranother, and by the time she came to me, she was already 27, so no point in changing things on her at that stage of the game.

[allikat819]

My TWH is Fugi… it kind of evolved into that. He was Fuego, spanish for fire. At the barn where he was boarded, someone mispelled it as Fugeo,which we started to use, and it became Fugi. He has been Fugi FAR longer than he was ever Fuego at this point!

[sparky6]

I knew a horse named Gerald once. He was a precious chestnut QH with a big blaze and socks, and a serious Fabio mane. He was a horse at the camp where I worked, and legend has it that in his past life he helped run moonshine :lol:

[Cruisesmom]

My boy: Registerd Name Port of Call, “Cruise” as his barn name. Sometimes ahole, sometimes WTF…and so on.

[LSM1212]

Registered AQHA name: Bachelor of Arts
Barn name: Stitch

He came with the barn name and I just kept it because it was unique. But no clue how they came up with that.

I call him Boo as another nickname. :lol:

[_Battle_Worthy]

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I’ve also known horses with just letters as barn names…both G and Z[/QUOTE]

One of my guys is V, one of my good friends has a Y, and I used to board with a K. Definitely different, I just assume whoever gave them their barn names were super un-creative or liked to keep things simple!

[Sandy_M]

The only Atticus I know was a dog. I thought it a great name for a Black & Tan Coonhound. I knew another black & tan named “Luther.” Ya gotta have the RIGHT kinda name for a coon hound!

Yeah, we have a couple of Magic’s (AHA), a Fargo (Paint with a really long reg. name including “Paint the Town”), a Hallmark (NSH), a Stormy (something German beginning with Sturm… but a lot of the horses in our barn have “people” names: Dante (Andante), Mark, Pete (who probly has some something-Bar QH name), Desi (Design), Wendy (something German beginning with Wend…)

My guy is “Mark” because “Confetti’s Magic Marker” is a little too much of a mouthful, and there are too many “confetti’s.”

My lovely old boy I had to euthanize in Feb. 2010 was Erik. He was registered as Viking Grog. He was a red chestnut, so… “Erik (the Viking).” LOL

[alg0181]

My current lease’s barn name is Jerry. Strange name for a horse, and leads to many jokes about how “Jerry” is not a horse at all, if you catch my drift. “Honey, I’m gonna go ride Jerry.” “WHO THE F*** is JERRY?!” :rolleyes:

[Burbank]

I know one appy mare that has the name Funnyface, she has a thin akward blaze

A half-arab that goes by Monkey cause he is a goof ball

A standardbred named 150 due to the 150 branded on his neck

I tried out a Gator who got that barn name for being mouthy

And a pissy belgium named Mountain Momma

[spotmenow]

@RacetrackReject;5476883

Fat Bastard. No, seriously, that was his barn name.

:lol::lol::lol: That is GREAT!!!

I knew a horse named “Yum Yum” (short for her registered name of Tiramisu) and also met a horse named Sniper once…

[Vesper_Sparrow]

Mine have lots of names.

Buddha gelding: Bird, Bubbs, BB, Bubba, Bubbles and Pickles (he has a sweet side and a pickly side).

Old mare: Andy, And, Little Girl, Madame

[JumpQH]

Wubby.

This evolved from his registered name Kings Double Poco. His first nickname was Double. That turned into Douby. Of course, that turned into Wubby.

[spirithorse22]

Knew a horse, similar to Fat Bastard, this one was FatBoy

…Off the top of my head…unusual names…

We got 3 horses off the trader’s trailer at one time at a ranch where I worked. Ranch manager rubbed his jaw for a minute, then pointed to Horse 1) Preacher (big grey), Horse 2) Deacon (raven black, no white), Horse 3) Bishop (stocky sorrel)

And so they were named. :winkgrin:

Knew a horse named “Vinny”, a dude horse we used to joke was a NY sidewalk hotdog vender in a past life. He had that personality of, “Ya buying? No? Stop taking up space then.”

Knew a pretty mare named “Bikini”; just really tall, leggy, super pretty mare. The ranch manager’s wife (not very horsey) loved this mare and I think she named her.

Knew a roan called “Lester”.
And another roan named “Rooster”. :yes:

Knew a Fjord named “Magnus”. :lol:

Favorite mare at that ranch was “Hardin”, b/c, you guessed it, she’d been bought at an auction in Hardin, Montana.

One of the geldings was “Mescalero”

My first horse was Arctic’s Edelweis, w/ my last name…no show announcer stood a chance of pronouncing the whole thing correctly…and I’ve never met another “Edel”.

[HMM]

We have a horse at the barn named Oops. Every time I see it on the list for farrier work, it makes me smile.

[propspony]

My instructor in college had the cutest old red QH named Schmoo. (That one’s always been my favorite!) my last racehorse was named Piglet (cause she was such a fat little sh**!) and my mare before I got her had the fabulous name of Dammit! (with exclamation point!)

I have to admit that Liz Austin takes the prize for awesome barn names though… her stallion Olivier is known as Fizzy, I think she has a zoomzoom… Reading her posts are hysterical sometimes just for the horse names.

[Mali]

My gelding is called “Bogo”…he was a freebie that got thrown in with another gelding we bought He didn’t come with a name, and it took a few weeks to come up with one. I had almost given up when I was cleaning his stall one evening and told him that I should just call him Bogo. Someone overheard me and thought it was very fitting.

[apcohrs]

The barn name on my boy’s stall door is Native - and that’s what everybody else calls him. However, he’s my beloved idiot, so I call him Idjit. Or Bubeleh when he’s being especially endearing.