OK I give up! Please help me name my horse!!

[Cara]

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It's funny you should say that. My father in law brought me a 'safe' horse home last weekend, and he couldn't remember his name. He thought it might be Bucky. When we got home and found a red dun horse in our pens, I was more than a little worried. Luckily he'd got it wrong, and it was Dunny

There's a superstition here that you don't give a horse the same name as one that was here previously if it was bad. Equally, you don't name it after a very good horse, for fear of jinxing it. 'Smokey' (like Smokey the Cowhorse) is strictly off limits. Seeing as my FIL has been here since the 60s though, and probably seen 500+ horses come and go, that somewhat limits the options. Luckily the mares don't usually have names as they are just broodmares.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

I have a friend who has a mare named Sauce.

I had a fiery little bay named Chili once. Looked alot like yours

 

[Cara]

You guys have got me thinking about "Tabasco". That might be more of a male name though... and a hard sell!

 

[FrChuckW]

DUH I asked the dumb question, you did say she was registered, I looked up her pedigree, which is impressive to say the least.

Going back a few generations I see that she comes from L H Flicka, and quite a few champions in her background. Fiesta or Fiesty would be good for her I think.

 

[skirbo]

If she's an opinionated girlie, I suggest Kat or Katherina ("Katrina"), the 'title' character from "Taming of the Shrew."

Sarah

 

[mamabird]

She's registered, her sire is King Royal Hank and her dam is Skippers Royal Lady. She's mostly King linebred.

Royal...Lady...what about Dutchess??​

 

[countryboy]

Frankie.

 

[speckledhen]

The name that came to mind when someone said Chestnut is Chessie. Whatever you name her, she's a nice looking mare.

 

[Cara]

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It's funny how certain horses are more well known in certain areas; at least around here there are certain horses that have a stronger influence in remudas than in other areas. Most ranches in our area have a lot of Doc Bar and Hancock. My husband hadn't ever heard of LH Flicka, we'll have to look her up. We didn't travel far to get her, but she was born in Boerne TX which is quite a ways. None of our other horses or the ranch horses have even similar bloodlines, so other than the King we don't know a whole lot about her breeding. She seems to look a lot like most King bred horses I have seen advertised, being so stout and solid bay, and having a big head!

The funny thing is she is the image of her grandsire, Cow Bo Country, even down to the foot marking. He had a white coronet with a black spot on his rear offside, with no other markings, exactly like hers. I'm not sure which site you used to look her up, there's a pic of him on www.allbreedpedigree.com.

 

[ranchhand]

I've always found that a hard consonant works better, because the critters key in on that sound. B, D, K, L, N, P, T, V, etc.

Hang around with her enough, and she will name herself. Even if it's not a hard consonant!

She's a fine looking gal!