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RE: [RC] renaming a horse - Rae CallawayAnd someone was asking why "barn names" have nothing to do with registered names? Well, there you go. Very few of my horses go by their registered names. It's the barn name they get that fits them and their personality. Or sometimes, what I want them to be. I have definitely seen the difference a good name can do. I had a very diva-ish filly who's first reaction to EVERYTHING was to rear. Show her a halter? Rear. Ask her to go forward? Rear. I named her Angel. By the time she was 3, she was the sweetest mare and very easy to work with. Another colt I had was scared of his own shadow. He got named Chief and now he's the leader in the herd and very confidant on the trails. It's really made me careful what I give them as their "barn" name, or in my mind, their "real" name. The registered name is like their title, so to speak. Rae -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of k s swigart Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:24 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] renaming a horse Elizabeth Walker said: Now that sounds like a story or two.? ?Could you give some examples? I have a horse whose registered name is 'The Valley Minx."? Her breeder called her (along with all the other young females that he bred--of which there were many), "the filly" or "that filly over there" or "the Hussy's filly" if he really wanted to distinguish her from all the others?(The Valley Hussy was her mother's name). When I got her home, and took her off the trailer, saw nothing but legs, she told me her name was Twiggy.? I sometimes make a diminutive out of it and call her Twig or Twiglet.? I have NEVER called her The Valley Minx, or anything even remotely resembling that.? There is nothing about the name that even remotely suits her. Twiggy she is.? I cannot change her registered name though, because that name is already taken in the Jockey Club.? But she is registered with the AERC and USEF as Twiggy.? Nobody in her entire life has ever called her The Valley Minx, and if one looked at her or spent any time with her, they wouldn't dream of doing so.? It just doesn't suit her, and she wouldn't be bashful about saying so. Quail's Lovebug is Brittany Blind Eagle was Sonny Of the horses that I have bred and named, none of their subsequent owners has changed their names.? They (the horses) like their names, and so do their owners. Marla was registered as Lady Marla, though she has never been called that (my horse shoers wife used to call her Queen Marla, for obvious reasons).? But she was named Marla first and just had the Lady added to it because just Marla was also already taken with the Jockey Club (a bit of a problem with the Jockey Club, lots of the names that suit horses are already taken). kat Orange County, Calif. :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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