Name Shame, part deux: Gender confusion

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Name Shame, part deux: Gender confusion

Postby Heidilady » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:48 pm

Ok we have a name shame thread for rather questionable name choices in general. You know, the attempts to be clever and crude at the same time. Some are just lousy. Here's another one, a subset really. I started with one that's been mentioned a couple times on tv lately and I'd like to know if there are other names that really belong to a different gender or at least sound like they should. I'm sure there have been.

The gender confused nominees I'd like to offer up are:

Dubious Miss and Labamta Babe...both colts and boy do they sound girly. Anybody else got one they'd like to have "reassigned" to a more sexually appropriate equine?

Honorable mention: Smarty Jones. Doesn't sound girly but he was named for a woman's nickname.
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Postby geowarrior » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:59 pm

I believe Chief Officer is a filly, but somehow I'm always confused even though we can have female chiefs and female officers.

Oh well, lots of people think Geowarrior ought to be a guy.
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Postby Rokeby Forever » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:05 pm

Jaklin Klugman - strange name for a colt, huh?
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Postby KBEquine » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:00 am

As I recall, they thought Jacklin Klugman was a filly when they named her. Or him. That's what they said at the time, any way.
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Postby dray33 » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:26 am

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Postby majxmom » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:05 am

Linda's Chief. It's always felt funny to me when a colt has a possessive case name where a female is the possessor.
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Postby Nessa » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:28 am

I think Hall Lass a gelding, and Howbigaboyareya a mare qualify for this category. There is a gelding by the name of Transvestite running in England so he belongs too :lol:
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Postby Classic Fool » Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:35 am

How about Delightful Kiss, the gelding who ran third in the Tampa Bay Derby last weekend? Maybe it's just me, but I just would not be able to associate that name with anything other than a filly.
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Postby Sysonby » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:15 pm

Cannon Boy, a mare by Canonero II.

Incidentally "miss" can also mean "swing and a miss" kind of miss, but "boy" is kind of definitive.

I always thought that "Kitten's Joy" was a little feminine sounding for a male.
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Postby pfrsue » Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:18 pm

I think both Ruffian and Moscow Burning come across as rather masculine names.
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Postby Sam » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:53 pm

KBEquine wrote:As I recall, they thought Jacklin Klugman was a filly when they named her. Or him. That's what they said at the time, any way.

That's what had been relayed to me when I was hanging around Mira Loma as a kid.

He was a FUGLY creature.
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Postby Nessa » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:59 pm

Here are two more Malt Muse, a bay gelding by Mull of Kintyre x Maltesse and Nikindi a bay colt by Mull of Kintyre x Alma Latina.
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Postby magic code » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:07 pm

Miss Falstaff

(make sure to note the name of his grandsire...)



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