I recently got a mare that had been named Crash. The name came about as she crashed into
her owner’s lap a couple days after being born.
Unfortunately, she lived up to the name.She’s 8 now, has a scar down her
face and misshapen nose bones and scars all over her hind legs and all 4
pasterns from various accidents.Since I’ve had her, she’s had 2 accidents that left nasty
wounds, but no more scars I think. One, she decided to turn around in the
last stall of the slant load with tack room and got stuck. The second, walking across a bridge, she
decided to jump off.
I was determined to rename her as soon as I got her.First thought Cash, since it was similar
to what she already knew.But
someone pointed out that it wasn’t as if an endurance horse was going to
make me money, it was just a matter of how much she cost me. Since her sire is Medicine Man and dam is
MorgaineLeFay, I wanted a
witch doctor, healer type name.Someone came up with Sage, so I spelled it Csage
and am crossing my fingers that the name change helps! ;-)
Now, can anyone tell me how the name Sudan dooms a
horse to stupid accidents?This is
a horse I had when he was young and now I have him back again.After I bought him, but before I brought
him home he was scared by a llama and crashed through several fences and still
has scars from that. After I
brought him home I neglected to bring him in before dark once and he rolled in
a fence – still has that scar too.He gained a few dings the last few years while he was away and now, 5
days after getting him home again he managed to crash through a barb wire
fence, breaking 3 strands, then finding a whole new place to try to jump back
in when the herd neglected to follow him.
He has new wounds from his eyelids to his feet, all four
legs, and chest.Amazingly
all superficial.I’ve
never had another horse touch the barb wire (we didn’t put it up, its
perimeter fencing for the national park that we are next to).Well, I hope he learned his lesson –
if so, I can live with the multitude of superficial wounds.But I think I’ll keep him in at
night for a while!
