I have a Loooonnnnggg list of possible foal names probably more than i will ever use and seems like every year i come up with more names that arent on the list. When ever a name crosses my mind that i like i write it down. I have them listed in categorys names for colors, spanish names, western names ...... I put a lot of thought into my names. They all start with Skylight though its a great way to market the farm. If some one really likes the horse they know where to go to get another one like it.
I have made a few names that matched sire and dam and a few that when on pedigrees etc... Most of the time my barn names has nothing to do with the registered name. Grace's registered name is Skylight's Dun Rose Wild. Now she is a dun but her sire was also named Checkmates dun e boy which i hated so i called him Rico. I had a name picked out for Glory she was going to be Morning Dove as a indian name but then she came out solid and not pinto
Her star looked like a morning glory flower so she got the name skylights morning glory. Her mom's name is herkos white dove.
I had a stallion named Romeo and i bred him to sugar if it was a colt i was going to name him skylights Sugar boy Romaro but if it was a girl it would be Diva Dulce cuz Sugar acts like a diva and dulce means sweet, well turned out to be a girl but she didnt make it.
Mostly i look for names that flows smoothly. Another name i like is Skylight's Katalina. Mostly i just wait untill the foal is born and i go by their personality and color and somehow a name just comes to me. Skylights setting fancy free was an easy one to name she was born 6 weeks early and came out practically running.
Her first steps were a trot after she was about 15 mins old wore her poor mom slap out. Shot of Amber was a palomino filly. Lakota warrior was named cuz he had a difficult birth and he's pinto. Skylight's Rebel Yell was chestnut with stockings and a blaze with 2 blue eyes red white and blue and he was very vocal. Tika Lynn well she's a grullo which is a black dun so i thought Tika sounded like a good name for a black horse and Lynn was the only thing i could come up with to match if you say it fast it sounds almost like ticklin.
Sheila brandy was a chestnut loved that name combo its fun to say too. bambi boy i was thinking he'd app out eventually. My friend wanted to call him little foot cuz his blaze looked like a persons bare foot print with out the toes. Charro was charcole looking when he was born. He was a black just started out greyish he had a huge star. A charro is a decked out mexican cow boy
. And is also the name of an elvis movie. Dixie Darlin was a my first foal she was a silver dapple pinto. Dream Girl was easy cuz she's my first buckskin pinto which i've been dreaming of owning one for years..Skylights Sunset Shadow was born at sunset and came out a orangey red color which later lightened up to palomino and her mom's reg name was ultra misty shadow. Sunset Shadow was the only foal i named before she was born and actually kept the name it was incredible about 6pm that name came to be from no where went out side to feed and at 7pm she was born it was amazzing how the name totally fit. Her barn name though was Reina which means Queen she bossed her mom around i called her mom princess.
Theres no set rule of thumb just go with what name you think of when you look at your horse and i'm sure you'll come up with a good one.
I'm not even sure if we'll ever get to showing them but they were bought registered so they'll be registered
