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Ah -- OK.

Caisson's registered name is September SongMBN.  I can't see myself  
calling him "Song" - it just doesn't suit.  He has another name under  
AERC, but I wasn't going to change that one, either, and while "RHR  
Mighty Mouse" might be appropriate (he is just barely 14.2), it  
doesn't make a good call name, and "Mouse" doesn't suit him either.  :)

On the other hand, when I first saw him he was a bit on the chubby  
side, and he has a fairly round barrel, so my first thought was "That  
guy is built like a little tank".  Since he was being called "Kzon" as  
a barn name, I just changed it a little bit.  For those of you who  
didn't grow up as army brats - "Caisson" (pronounced Kay' sahn) is  
from the Field Artillery song of "The Caissons Go Marching Along".   
Maybe a bit too apt, as he can be a bit explosive.  :)


On Oct 5, 2009, at 8:24 PM, k s swigart wrote:

> 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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