Comments on: 4 Tips for Naming Your New Horse

By: Katelyn

Katelyn — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:46:33 +0000

I ride an OTTB whose barn name is Pirate or Pi and his jockey club name is Mundo Pirate so it just naturally worked out.

By: Brittany Eshkenazi

Brittany Eshkenazi — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 07:35:09 +0000

My horse was named Ozzy when we bought him and my trainer told me the wizard in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is Professor Marvel and thus Marvelozz was born!

By: Brandi

Brandi — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:12:40 +0000

When I got my mare, she was just referred to as the China King filly. So I just stuck with China as the barn name. When I got her papers I was pleasantly surprised to find out her papered name is China Doll Whiz.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 06:37:00 +0000

My Missouri Foxtrotter’s registered name is Velvet Penny. I didn’t like either of those names, so her name is now Copper!

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 04:27:37 +0000

Nice article. Good attention to detail. I, too, seem to agree that a horse’s barn name may be slightly different from his registered name, or lack there of. Joyce

By: Galadriel

Galadriel — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:23:27 +0000

Good tips. I am really particular about naming my animals.

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:43:52 +0000

While my mustang’s barn name and registered name are completely unrelated, they are both based on his characteristics. His barn name, Caspian, was based on his regal movement–his trot looks more like a prance. His registered name, One Who Gallops Without Limits, on the other hand, is based on the fact that he’s a mustang, and that he was rounded up on an airforce base.

By: Ashton

Ashton — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:42:58 +0000

Or you can really confuse people and go literature-major on them 🙂 Thorin Indra is my quarter horse. “Thorin” derivative of Thor, king god in Norse culture, meaning thunder. Scandinavian. “Indra” king god in Hindu culture, translation ‘possessing small drops of water.’ Sanskrit. Poetic translation as decided upon by me: “Thunder that rains, thunder that posseses.” Voila. A highly intellectual, multi-cultural, mind-boggling horse name. Bonus, I’ve never yet come across another Thorin. Although my time might be limited since The Hobbit movies … and my horse’s naming predated the movies, fyi, although I had read the book. No connection.

By: Dalton

Dalton — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 18:21:15 +0000

cool

By: PKL

PKL — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:55:15 +0000

Sometimes a name will just “pop” into my head, but usually it comes with something I see or say to my new horse. Like Kisses, one day she was just laying in the sunlight sleeping, and I told her, I see you are being kissed by the sun, which then became her registered name…Kissed by the Sun. Kisses is a Palomino.