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Added prefixes make it easier to name because there's so many horses on the game, a lot of names are taken.

As a sample, here's a search of one of my barns that contains a bunch of mares and even more geldings. The gelding's names will give you an idea of what I mean by "random pronounceable syllables. " :D

https://www.huntandjump.com/adv_search.php?owner=137592&owner_lm=like&barn=10355&barn_lm=like&runsearch=1

I name my mares "HS #G ID-NUMBER abc"
HS is my prefix
#G refers to generation where # is a number 1-6 (i don't keep track after 6, sometimes even after 5)
Then their ID number
'abc' refers to my "gene suffixes". I assign a letter of the alphabet to each gene i breed specifically and use them to note what mares and studs have what genes. Lowercase means het, and capital means hom.
Ex:

HS 2G 6744369 fni14

HS 2G 7712601 cs3

My studs get actual names. Foundations get there name from my surroundings basically. For instance, i have a new stud named Polar Vortex since we just went through one. I have one named Dragon of Starlight after a favorite book series of mine, etc. Lined studs get a name based off the sires name. They get the same Prefix and generation notation as the mares as well as the suffixes.
EX:

HS 3G Juneau i1i14Nd

And lastly, my show ponies just get HS ID-NUMBER. I gave up giving my mares proper names long ago. Too many horses to come up with names for.

I love your garbage names Sandy Creek! They sound all sci fi or mythical or something, so awesome :))

All my intact horses get a prefix added to their ID#. That tells me their gender and generation in 3 letters.

JL - JOLO Ladies
JL - JOLO Studs (my barn name has always been JOLO. This summer I finally picked real breed names but didn’t feel like changing my system or converting everyone to the new letters)

Starting with the second generation I add a letter of the alphabet to indicate generation.
a=2nd, b=3rd, c=4th etc.

At a glance I know that JLd is a 5th Gen mare.

A few years ago I needed some direction for my herds so on each server I picked 2 “special genes” to breed for and added 2 letter indications to come after the prefix or after the ID#.

After the prefix HJ1 has NX - nexus (since then I’ve added AX - Axiom, and PL - Plaid) and at the end of the name I put the KP for Homo KP and kp for het KP (I only track the first Gen of het. Kp until a homo KP foal pops up again.)

On HJ1 I have IC just after the prefix for all my Ice horses with the version of ice after that. At the end of the names I have Sa for satin.

I try to name my special gened foundation horses and any that have had interest from outside barns. Every once in a while I sit down to watch a TV show and start working through the unnamed horses using random words that stick out from the conversations and situations on the television or I use books or episode titles from IMDB.

I don’t have internet at home and limited data so I struggle to keep up with naming and tattooing horses. Lately I’ve been working on tattooing horses more than naming to try to get through the most amount of horses in the least amount of time.

I use a thesaurus for the foundation names. :)) To many to come up with on my own.

She's gorgeous Brandi207! I love that coloring! Paradox has one similar to her. I've been thinking about trying for these as appys instead of my Gold cream champagne line. They're pretty but the livers are so much prettier :))

II use the prefix ZO for my high PT-line. ZO is the initials for my barn name, Zolotaya Orda.

For my fun, gmt-line that I have started from my own foundations, I use x as a prefix, and then name them according to their generations. I name them alphabetically according to their generations. Foundations has the letter A, so a foundation may be called x Aldebaran. 2.gen has the letter B, so a 2.gen could be called x Betelgeuse. 3rd gen has the letter C and so on. In that way, it is easy to know what generation they are, without so many specific numbers and letters to tell them apart.

I try to use portuguese names for the line, as I am learning portuguese at the moment. That also makes naming easier, all I need is a dictionary, and look up the letter "a" or "b" and so on.

That's quite cool actually Herzeloyde, although the thought of trying to think of all those names for my thousands of horses pulls me up LOL! I just use my prefix KT, with a number for generations. So simply KT2, KT3 etc followed my their ID number, sometimes I add era too. Just makes it quick and easy for me when I pull up intact foals. They may or may not get proper names down the track. Stallions always get names though