We eventers heart our horses! I mean, like, we heart-heart them. Even though they don’t always heart us back.
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:
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 & Characters, Battle of the Booze, The Empire Business, Monster Trucks, Celebrities, Snow, St. Paddy’s Day, Fourth of July, Christmas, Pumpkin Spice All the Thingz, New Orleans Edition and What’s For Breakfast?