Grand
Champions Names
Well,
where can I start. Hummm........Well first of all my count of all the regular sized Grand Champions to date is 223. That is
including sound stallions/mares, foals, families, horses with riders, parade horses and blue ribbon horses. This does not
include minis, micros, FNN and action horses. My count could be a little off, but I think it is is pretty close. Now you would
think that a any person..could come up 223 different names that would be good for a horse. Well, that is not the case with
the people who make up Grand Champion names. It just drives me nuts that they have quite a few horses with either exactly
the same or very similar names. For example.
Shadow------this
one drove me nuts as a kid. I only had a few foals and two of them were named Shadow. Shadow the Appaloosa and Shadow the
Morgan. They were both out around the same time. Sheesh.
Majesty----that
is the name of the chestnut Tennessee Walker stallion and the Cleveland Bay stallion.
Hot
Fudge----that is the name of the bay morgan stallion and the frederiskborg sound stallion.
Sultan
and Sultan Pepper-----these names are just too close for my liking and both horses are arabs!! They are the names of the Arab
stallion in the horse and rider set and the arab stallion in 96.
Princess
and Princess Bay---These are both names of bay mares. The bad thing is they look very close to the same horse and are in the
same pose only 2 years apart!!
Lucky
and Born Lucky ----Both names of foals only a year apart. At least they look different and are different breeds.
Midnight and Midnight Magic---not too bad, different years, differnt
poses, but they are still both black stallions!
Another
thing that drives me crazy is all the Gold in Grand Champions. Someone who names them really has gold on the brain! Here they
are in no particular order.
American
Gold
Golden
Sunshine
Heart
of Gold
Golden
Bolt
Gold
Dust
Golden
Bloom
Golden
Glory
Sunday
Gold
Red
Gold
Liquid
Gold
Turkish
Gold
Goldilocks
That is a LOT of GOLD! And yes! Most of them
are palominos
Then
there is all the Ladies. Like..
Dixie
Lady
Silver
Lady
Foxy
Lady
Lady
Blackstar
Lady
Trooper
Lady
Fair
Lady
Janice
Lady
Jessica
Lady
Grace
There
is also a lot of Snow
Snow
Patch
Snowflake
Snowy
Knight
Snow
Queen
Snow
Mane
And
what about Lass.
Playful
Lass
Aladins
Lass
Lovely
Lass
What
about titles for men like
Mr.Chip
(at least he is the only Mr. that I know of)
Sir
Triston
Sir
Blitzer
Senior
Poncho
Senior
Speedy
Senior
Valador
Oh and one more that
is kinda bad -----Dixie Doll and China Doll both out in the same year!
Okay I am done complaining
about names now. As most of you know the foal is often named after the parents. I tried not to include them in this when that
happened. Naming a foal after the parents is fine with me. Sorry if I made any mistakes in this list. I am making it half
asleep.
