# Someone gave me a Paso Fino today. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646 "2013-08-07T23:32:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/21 "2013-08-09T12:20:45Z")
The husband has vetoed the name Dante, negative connotations. I’m open to suggestions. Our other horses are Lego and Jasmine, and the donkey is Jethro (all names they came with). The lady I got him from called him Rico, which I neither love nor hate, but it ends in an o sound and I’ve already got two o equines. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/22 "2013-08-09T12:21:54Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Man, how come nobody ever just up and gives me a Paso? So unfair (and sooo jealous!) > > He’s a beauty. I hope things work out for you both. Dante is a great name for him. There is a first time for everything! I certainly wasn’t expecting this one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/23 "2013-08-09T13:10:52Z")
What’s negative about a great Italian poet? ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/24 "2013-08-09T13:20:44Z")
He has a cousin with that name. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/25 "2013-08-09T14:51:10Z")
We are going to call him Cimmaron. Husband’s idea. I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/26 "2013-08-09T15:03:42Z")
Cool! I have never seen this gait before, or heard of the breed. (I am not a horse person.) When I opened the thread, I thought “paso fino” was some kind of slang expression or euphemism. Does it mean something etymologically like “fine pace”? ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/27 "2013-08-09T15:17:53Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Cool! I have never seen this gait before, or heard of the breed. (I am not a horse person.) > > When I opened the thread, I thought “paso fino” was some kind of slang expression or euphemism. Does it mean something etymologically like “fine pace”? “Fine step,” apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Fluke54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@Fluke54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluke54)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/28 "2013-08-09T15:20:55Z")
Oh,he is a handsome guy! Lucky you! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646/29 "2013-08-09T15:26:10Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > We are going to call him Cimmaron. Husband’s idea. I like it. Happy trails to you all. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-gave-me-a-paso-fino-today/665646.md?page=1)