Event Horse Names: Valentine’s Day Edition

We eventers heart our horses! I mean, like, we heart-heart them. Even though they don’t always heart us back.

Graphic by Leslie Wylie.

So it’s no surprise that there are a gazillion event horses out there with sweet mushy-gushy lovey-dovey names. Here’s a word cloud created from a few we pulled up from the USEA horse registration database:

Graphic by Leslie Wylie.

Jessica Phoenix and A Little Romance, sired by A Fine Romance. Photo by Jenni Autry.

Pretty cute. But my favorite subgenre of Valentine’s Day appropriate event horse names?

Fun fact: There are actually three horses named “Better Than a Boyfriend” in the USEA database. Nice work, ladies. Graphic by Leslie Wylie.

Fun fact: There are actually three horses named “Better Than a Boyfriend” in the USEA database. Nice work, ladies.

Happy Valentine’s Day out there!

In case you missed them, check out these previous editions of Event Horse Names: Authors, Books & CharactersBattle of the BoozeThe Empire BusinessMonster TrucksCelebritiesSnowSt. Paddy’s DayFourth of JulyChristmas, Pumpkin Spice All the Thingz, New Orleans Edition and What’s For Breakfast?