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NAME CHOICE RULES:

A: Each animal for which registration is applied must be given an acceptable name which does not conflict with the name of any other animal registered with the ApHC, either living or dead. In addition, names may no longer be reserved. The following names are not eligible for use: (a) if they consist of more than twenty (20) letters and spaces; (b) end in filly or colt; (c) are names of famous horses; (d) are similar in spelling to names already in use; (e) are names of famous or notorious people unless their notarized consent is filed with the ApHC; (f) are suggestive or which have vulgar or obscene meanings; (g) are similar in pronunciation to any of the above; (h) numbers, including Arabic and Roman, punctuation marks such as apostrophes or hyphens and special characters such as dollar signs or percentage signs may not be used.

B. Reserved names. Following is a list of reserved names and the name and registration number of the horse or the name of the ranch to which it refers:

Apache (Apache F730)
Beau (Beau Rondo, F4218; Bluebird B., F1687;
Buttons B., F1681; Pale Moon B., F2064;
Quavo B., T1089 (or an ApHC-registered
horse whose name contains the
word Quavo); Strawboss B., T915)
Bright (Bright Eyes Brother, F3047)
Buttons (Buttons B., F1681)
Chinook (Simcoe's Chinook, F1610)
DF (or) D.F. (ranch name, David Feagin)
Dominion (ranch name, Creswell Farms, J. Schwerin)
Dot (cannot be used as complete word, only as
part of a word, Dotted Swiss)
El Dorado (ranch name, Fred Olds)
Happy (ranch name, Happy Smith)
Minidoka (ranch name, L.W. Moore)
Sunday (Sunday Pants, #2509)
Tejas (ranch name, Oran Scarlett)
Without written permission (a notarized statement from the person reserving the name), the above-listed reserve names cannot be used unless the horse specified above is listed in the pedigree or the horse is registered by the owner and/or authorized agent of the ranch.
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