Some thoughts on the naming of horses
Horses should have ridiculous names. It’s just fun!
Examples of my former horses names that I didn’t chose myself but kept when I got them: Valcrest, Memphis Mild (named after a BBQ sauce because she was the same color as the sauce), Breeze (especially funny b/c this horse was really big bodied and in no way breezy), Reno 911.
Other cool names of friends horses: Cheerio, Elmo, Ferrari, Daiquiri, B.J. haha
This farm where I work has the worst horse names. They are all ‘fancy’ people names and so boring like Caroline, Olivia, Nicholas, Otto, Hershel, Lily. What? Why would you do that?
The only acceptable situation where a horse can have a people name is if you are a cowboy. Cowboy types always name their horse something like Doc, Max, Bo, or Bob because they are too lazy to call them anything else. Sometimes they don’t even have a name for them. They just call them something descriptive like red, spot, that paint, the mare, or old bud which is pretty charming.
