
I have been thinking about what Arya should have as a competition name. Due to her not being registered, I have wondered in the past whether I should give her the prefix ‘Emerald’ as that’s what I have done in the past with the horses George and Sparkie or if I should use the name that the farm where she was born has.
There has been a lot of thought put into this, especially as I do not want to disrespect anyone who has contributed into the creation of Arya. I decided, however, due to various reasons that using my ‘brand’ should not be seen as disrespectful to any people involved.
Quite early on, I decided that although I love the name Arya, I wanted something else for her registered name. Arabella became the name that I wanted to use, partially because there’s a cool song by Arctic Monkeys called Arabella, but more so because it’s a pretty name and it works well as a tribute to her breeding (starts with A as does her sires name, Absolute ego Z, and has bella in it which makes reference to her grandsire Pico bello).
Recently, after working at the stable Meadowbrook Farms, in the Netherlands, where they used the suffix MBF, I thought of the idea of using SF as a suffix for the future horses that are produced at Stigtomta. See, it would be too difficult for everyone to easily pronounce the word Stigtomta and with my name and my mother’s name we don’t need to intentionally make things harder for ourselves and other people. However, the name Arabella SF had a nice ring to it and I could see that the suffix would work with all types of names. In fact, there may even be a chance that Sassy (aka Red Bird) gets SF as a suffix in the future.
It is still undecided, and in some ways it would be sad to see the Emerald prefix go. However, I feel that with the farm being called Stigtomta it’s a logical change.