Horse Names, I need them!!

[donrae]

Well, I've been re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and when I read your description of her I thought "that's Cordelia!" But when I saw her pic, to me her name would be Kate. Go figure!

Many moons ago I bought a tall TB/Appy cross. Loud leopard color, but long, narrow, gawky, high-withered, clumsy amimal. His name was.............Dancer. Yup.
At my house, he was just Danny.


After that, I bought a dun mare, her barn name was Buttercup. Yeah..........no. Couldn't deal with that. So my honey and I were brainstorming names, mostly keeping to flowers. Rose, lily, daisy, etc. Then, thinking of buttercups, I said "How about Daffodil?", thinking to call her Dilly. My honey started laughing and said "and call her what, Daffy?". Well, seven years later, Daffy she is. When I'm not calling her wench, that is!

Have fun with your mare!

 

[pookiegoldman]

How about Epona?

Epona (Celtic) - Protector of horses, donkeys, and mules. She was also an ancient fertility Goddess. Epona's Goddess name comes from the Gaulish word epos meaning "great mare."

 

[welsummerchicks]

ropo I ain't taking sides publicly, but let's just say I work very hard not to rename ANYTHING! EVER!

Once I walked into a barn and saw a horse for sale, and I recognized the horse right away. She had a very unusual flat or even pressed down, forehead and foreface. Bright bay, no white on her legs a little star, I knew her right away. She had always been a REALLY nappy mare (I mean WOULD...NOT....GO....FROM...YOUR...LEG...WHIP...SPUR...FERVENT PRAYER...WOULD...NOT...GO) and she was also not very sound. I KNEW that horse! I had ridden with her owner for the whole time she was training it.

'Hi Leiya!' I said loudly and she knickered.

The owner said, 'That is NOT Leiya! That is a horse we bought over in Indiana'.

I said 'Well it looks JUST LIKE Leiya!'

I still would swear on a stack of Bibles to this day that it was the mare I knew. I think the seller just wanted to have her NOT be that are so she could sell her easier!

So there's ANOTHER Reason we wish names would stay the same! So the history would come with the horse!

 

[Sassymygirl]

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Oooh, it's catchy. I like it! And I love Celtic names.

 

[greeneggsandham]

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That's my geldings name.

My old boy he's such a ham.

 

[turney31]

Tiny mite

 

[matthewschickens]

Saphira (SAH-fir-a)
Arya (Ar-i-a)

 

[noahsgeese]

chestnut?

 

[AmCanyonStables]

Someone said Daisy - and we just got a new horse at our barn whose name is:
Shadaisy! I have to say, this name is really growing on me, even though at first it sounded like one of those made up names.

 

[AmCanyonStables]

sorry, double post