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New board for horses so i start a thread. What is your horse called?

I don't have horse, I live on 4th floor. But my uncle in Kara-Bulak have a grey called Modem, because he makes a noise when he starts. sorry if wrong board

my grandfather's Chongtor was called Temir-Kapka because NOTHING got past him. not the Soviets, not the jandarm, not the vet. horses had REAL names before the americans came. now every Akyel in Talas is called Dollar.

WAKE UP IRAD

My cousin's mare is called Printer. Same reason as Modem. I think we have a generation problem.

In Iyık Janyl half the white horses are called Ak Boz and the other half are called Ak Boz Too. My neighbour's boy has his name day next week and he gets a ride on one of them. Nobody knows which.

Dear friends, I have only now discovered this board and I read every post twice.

My father's horse in the old country was a chestnut called Jeerde Kashka, for the white star on her forehead. When I was six she carried me to my first name day and bit my uncle on the way, which my father said was a blessing.

Here in Chicago we have no horses, but the daughter of an Association member rides a pony at a suburban stable. The stable calls him Butterscotch. She calls him Bal (honey) and has taught the stable girls to say it. This is how a language survives, one pony at a time.

With respect, Temir

Late to this. I do not own a horse. Nobody I know owns an Akyel, you need a bank for that. But I name the ones I see at the Hippodrome, in my head. The chestnut-gold mare who won the 1600 on Irad Day is called Altyn Tang in my head. Golden Dawn. Her real name is probably something with a stud farm in it.

Since nobody else will say it for the foreigners: "Meniñ atım Jim" means "my name is Jim" and also "my horse is Jim". There is a teacher's page on the webring with exactly this joke: Lesson 2: At. Her Lesson 3 has been "ready in December" since 2002. I respect her. I also have unfinished lessons.

Hi, first post, I'm in Kentucky. I bought an Akyel mare in 2010 from an export sale and I've been lurking. Her registered name is fourteen words long and includes a stud farm I can't pronounce. In the barn she's Sunny. I hope that isn't rude?

Not rude. Doran is the shine on the coat. Sunny is more or less a translation. Welcome. Respect the coat.

AMERICANS RENAMING OUR HORSES. first the map, then the horses. you think it is cute. it is a PATTERN. WAKE UP IRAD

I do not name horses I am going to sell. The buyer names them. Then they are called "the one I sold to the man from Kyzyl-Adyr".

My own gelding is Kara. Black. A horse does not need poetry.

kara is the most common horse name in irad. its like calling a dog Dog

Yes. And he comes when I call. Your poetry horse does not.

Up here horses are named for where they came from or who gave them. My mare is called Suu Ene's, "the godmother's", because at my baptism my godmother promised a foal, the way godparents do, and she kept the promise thirty-one years later. She said she was waiting for a good one. My mother says she was waiting for me to deserve one. Both are possible.

started riding lessons this month. the lesson horse is called Toyota. the instructor says the old owner was a taxi driver. is that normal

Better than Dollar.