New year with a few tips

First of all, I wanna wish you all out there happy new year and may it be better than ever!


I am sure everybody has faced that problem at least once in Howrse: what name to give a horse? When I started out, this was quite a problem for me and some horses got really weird names. (Remember the PSHs? Some of them had names that didn't make any sense at all!) But now I have gained knowledge and worked out some systems and I am glad to share them with you.

When I returned to Howrse last year(2014, cause it's 2015 now, remember? :P), I had learned about how they name horses in real life. This method differs in almost every breed. In Europe, most warmblood breeds' names start with their sire's name's first letter. One exception, that I know is with the Trakehner breed. Their names start with their dam's name's first letter. The same rule goes with Arabians. I use that system with my purebred Trakehners and Arabians in the game. This system doesn't count on crossbred horses. I don't know about other horse breeds, but in the game I use the European warmbloods rule with them.

This rule seems so simple and at first you may burst with many name ideas, but eventually there comes a point where you are out of ideas. That's when I use this site:

  http://www.horses-and-horse-information.com/horsenames/a.shtml

On this site are many horse names, you just pick the letter and you get a huge list of names. This place has always helped me out.

I may be wrong and I don't know much about naming Thoroughbreds, but I have noticed that there are almost no rules in naming them. For example, let's say that the sire's name is Black Racer and dam is Little Princess. Sometimes the offspring's name is a combination of it's parents'(like Black Princess or Little Racer), and sometimes the name is something completely different, that hasn't anything to do with it's parents' name. This is according to my researches and from what I have seen, please correct me if I am wrong.


I hope this helps you out a littlebit at least :)

And one more thing: I am willing to sell my GA horse Naughty One. He is a purebred Lusitano stallion. He has the kind of GA coat that can't be used with Helios' Ray, so I think it is rare. Mail me and make your offer! You can visit him in the Golden Apple Horses stable, he is the first there.


Regards,
BHF