My horse came to me as a two-year old with the registered name "Soubrette", which is French for "frivolous maiden". I didn't want her going through life with a name synonymous to "ding-bat", plus she is a Polish Arabian and it seemed odd for her to have a French name. I call her "Basia" (pronounced like Sasha) which is Polish for Barbara (my mother's name) or Barbie (I have been known to say that she is my giant Barbie Doll) and added the "Princess" because her sire, Penitent, was a Polish and European champion stallion in the early 90s.
She never "knew" her old name, but now she comes when she is called. 'Course she is 14 and very well taken care of, so she both recognizes her name, my (and others') voice, and where good things come from....
I think she likes her
name. She certainly likes being Princess Basia.
Liz Carey San Jose, CA
--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Elizabeth Walker <bwalker2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Elizabeth Walker <bwalker2@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [RC] renaming a horse To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 1:03 PM
Now that sounds like a story or two. Could you give some examples? (Really, I'm curious.)
On Oct 5, 2009, at 12:39 PM, k s swigart wrote:
>> Carol would like to rename her horse. > > The only reason I have ever renamed a horse is that the horse told me that the name it already had, it didn't like. > > So I asked the horse what it would rather be called. > > And then called it by that name. >
> So, my recommendation to Carol is that rather than asking somebody to ask ridecamp (i.e. a bunch of people who wouldn't know the horse if they tripped over it in the dark) what to rename her horse, that she ask the horse. I have never had a horse of mine not tell me what it would like to be called. > > 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!! > >
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