[QUOTE=PuraVidaEventing;5482216]
I have a horse named Dawkins.
Yes, named after the football player :P[/QUOTE]
LOVE! Big Brian Dawkins fan here…so sad that he’s wearing a Broncos jersey these days though. I thought he would retire as an Eagle.
Back to on-topic programming 
Great thread!
My current horse is a 5 year old TB/Holst named Second Hand Rose barn name is Rosey. Her name has special meaning in that when I found her she was a scrawny, boney, wormy, pathetic looking 2 year old. My Vet guessed her to be 300 plus pounds underweight.
My Mom named her Second Hand Rose because she has “blossomed” into such a lovely animal. She is now a beautiful 16 hand dark dapple gray. And has turned out to be an awesome eventing partner for me. I love my mare!
We have:
…Duckie (Morgan Gelding)
…Fab aka Fabrecadabra (TB gelding),
…Skeeter Bites (POA gelding)
…Mr. CrankyPants (the best W/T Morgan gelding EVAH!)
…Casey (PalominoMorgan’s Palomino Morgan mare is staying with us!)
…Candy (QH mare)
[QUOTE=propspony;5477238]
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. :-D[/QUOTE]
Much as I love my daughter, she did not come up with the barn names. 
When mine are born they are christened with human names. Have Stella, Heidi, Lila, Frank, and Penelope. Only exception was Abba and that’s because I was flipping through music videos waiting for her mother to foal. So in the middle of “Knowing Me, Knowing You”, mom went into labor.
Stella is by Broken Hearted and registered Heartbreaking
Heidi is out of Heartbreaking and is reg’d Heartbreak Ridge
Abba is out of Heartbreaking and is reg’d Breathtaking
Lila is out of Stonor Lady and as she did not have to be named at registration time, I’m still undecided.
Frank is Ask The Builder and came with that.
Penelope will not be named by me but I would love to call her Penelope Chaparral as her dad is High Chaparral.
I’m sure everyone will sleep better for knowing that useless bit of info!
For the record we now call Lila, Cupcake. Don’t quit know how that happened but she mostly Cupcake now.
Terri
We have Caribbe (Cah-reeb); papered name Domingo, show name Hakuna Matata. And he came with the barn name Caribbe. Always hard to explain how to say his name But I like it!
Not an unusual name, but I spell my mare’s name Caity (short for Caitlyn). People always spell it wrong! But I wanted to spell it with a C to honor her sire, Cassini I.
I had the ugliest baby ever. He was by Brunswick out of a Sir Ivor mare. We called him Festus T. Mule . He was really ugly, but really sweet, so I thought I should give him a decent registered name as a talisman. He ended up Velvet Elvis after a line in an Alan Jackson song, and wouldn’t you know, he blossomed the spring of his 3yo year into a very handsome guy. So then we just called him Elvis around the barn:)
There’s been a horse called “Lark” at four different barns I’ve ridden or boarded at. How common is that name?
Let’s see…
Ima Streakin Doc …“Streaker” (Paint stallion, want to do a freestyle reining with him with rider in body stocking to the song “They Call Him The Streak”
Wimpys Poco O’Lena…“War Pony” (Paint stallion, I didn’t do his registered name which pretty much tried to do his pedigree in it…but did do his barn name after a really awful B western movie scene).
Quixotes Boomerang…“Boomer” (minimal splash white Paint with Nike swoosh type star)
“Blue”…17 hand appendix QH with lost papers, buckskin…named so it would be unlikely that he’d answer someone calling for him (and wore all blue tack…halter/lead/saddle pad/splint boots/blanket etc)
Colonels Diamond Chex…“Colonel” buckskin tobiano Paint
Docs Lady Is Smoken…“Munchkin”…not sure just what I was thinking…bought as a skinny, scrawny yearling and her name just came out.
CalBar Lena…“Callie”, bay tobiano Paint mare
“Baby Doll”…unregistered bay Belgian mare years ago…17.2 hands so not really much of a “baby” but a sweetheart to handle
Olympic Gold O’Lena…“Tigger”…palomino QH stallion born in the NW (near Olympic Mountains, in 1984…Olympic year)
Hickery’s Lil Crimson…“Pistol”…HZ tobiano Paint filly, named for grandsire, Smart Little Pistol because she is one…small (about 14 hands) but a real firecracker.
mine are bon, chocks, rasp, peb, ossy, j, billy, ollie, issy,
I’ve got a Digger-Doo (registered as Lynx Dox Sox) and a Travis (registered as Blues Art). But they’re often called things like Dewberry, Dewey, Red (either of them), Tweaky McTweakerson (Trav when he’s being a moron), and dumbass.
I prefer human names and while I got to give Travis his barn name (he didn’t come with one), Digger came with his and since I regularly ride with his original trainer and owner (prior to the person I bought him from), I couldn’t change it.
As a teenager we had a Bugs (Bugs April Power), Grits (True Sugar Grits) and Scruffy (no idea his registered name) that my aunt brought home from the QH track. They lived with Velvet (my first pony), Caramel (her hony), Peanuts (little white shetland), Qeone (crazy white mare), and her appy sons Blaze, Travis and Shane.
[QUOTE=UrbanHennery;5510434]
I’ve got a Digger-Doo (registered as Lynx Dox Sox) [/QUOTE]
Just being nosey and checked her pedigree…very nicely bred horse!
My instructor has a gorgeous grey mare who was dubbed “Toad” shortly after her arrival. When I asked when she was going to get a nice name, I was told when she stopped acting like a toad. Well, a year later she’s still Toad (grin). Her show name though is Cinderella’s Slipper.
My mare’s barn name is Be. Its her initials, but inadvertantly giving her a verb for a name was a great idea. Be-ing a (insert your own descriptive noun) or just simply hyphonating it is great. Be-aver, Be-aner, Be-yotch. You get the idea lol
Does anyone anthropomorphise their horses with a human personality?
I have Rudy (handsome gelding - James Dean type - cool)
Louis (17.2hh OTTB a distinguished older english gentleman, probably gay)
Fritz (aka “Mr. Farty Pants” Haflinger gelding, adolescent skater boy with ponytude) He was named after Jan Brett’s Fritz, but isn’t so angelic!
Hawkeye - Quarab - he’s a black guy, rapper with a golden heart.
Hope this doesn’t offend anyone! These guys are just too funny ~
I forgot to add to the Outsiders comment - back in the 70’s when I was in middle school I named a horse after Soda in the Outsiders - good book for kids!
Really? Who knew??
[QUOTE=CPO614;5477888]
have you read The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton? The main character is named Ponyboy and is told by another character to, “Stay gold, Ponyboy”. So I think Ponyboy for a gold pony is adorable.[/QUOTE]
No I haven’t read it, but how ironic. The family I bought Gold from seemed kind of simple and I think it’s far more likely that it was just the fact that he was a palomino pony gelding that got him that moniker. But ya never know.
Oh have I got a whopper for you guys…there’s a horse on the Arab curcuit, i think it’s actually a reiner and its registered name is…wait for it…
Skidmark
I am not joking…
our horses in the barn tend to get nicknames based on version of their names combined with personality traits.
Vinnie - the scaredy cat saddle seat horse = Winnie as in Weinie
Whiz - half arab sweet gelding = Whizzer, Shwizzer, Shwizzle stick
Fancy - little black gaited mare doted on by aged owner = Fancy Pants, said in a cutsie drawn out drawl
Tootsie - massive moody busy Half Arab Dutch mare with a buck to the moon - Tootie the Tornado, Fat Cow
Farys - cute Arab gelding with a solid frat boy temperment - Fart Face
Eddie - big, honest, quiet Half Arab gelding - Sweaty Eddie (because he conserves calories), Team Edward
Rosie - feminine gaited mare with princess attitude - Roeesha when she’s in a diva moment
The barn I am at has had some unique ones:
Corkibu
Potato
Shady
SoCo
Nitro
Atticus
Martell
Bobby Ray
Fireman
Red Fred
Thanks! I got him for a song last fall because he was neglected, underweight and in need of hoof care. We’re struggling to put on the last 100# but we’re doing well in our training and planning our first local reining show for the first weekend in May. Super excited!
[QUOTE=Across Sicily;5477530]
The weirdest one I think I’ve seen/heard is Zucchini. Who calls a horse Zucchini??? Bizarre.[/QUOTE]
I can match your Zucchini with a Broccoli Off the track TB mare who is now a babysitter. She goes by Brocky most of the time. Name some how came around the fact that her owner was a broccoli farmer or something.
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