If you hang around a horse barn long and often enough, you learn that a young horse’s given name or, those still unnamed by their owners, are given nicknames by those who train or ride them. Monikers may be as simple as calling or referring to a Thoroughbred by the name of their sire or dam. Others may come after a horse develops some type of unique quirk or mannerism while other times, a horse may be referred to by an off-shoot or, shortening of its given name.