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[RC] renaming a horse - k s swigart

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.
:)


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