Colors and Markings
What are the five base coat colors?
Bay, Black, Brown, Chestnut & White
A horse that is equal in size in the forequarter and hindquarter
What is Balance? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg. 9
a slow, 4 beat gait--the foundation gait
Left side Or ___________ used for mounting
What is Near side? Source:Horses and Horsemanship pg. 20
puts shoes on the horses feet
What is a farrier or blacksmith? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg. 47
black mane, tail, forelock and legs on a Bay horse
What are Black Points? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg.4
Horse who's toes point toward the outside
What is toed out? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg. 12
Two Beat Diagonal Gait
Trot or Jog
Natural aids used to control the horse
What are legs ,Hands, Weight, seat, and voice?
Name 5 parts of the horses hoof
wall, sole, frog, white line, quarter, heel, toe, sulcus
five major variations of coat colors other than the base colors
What are Dun (buckskin), Gray, Palomino, Pinto/Paint, Roan Sources: Horses and Horsemanship pg.4
A line drawn straight down from point of the shoulder down the center of knee, cannon, pastern, and foot
What is the ideal position of the front legs? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg. 12
three beat gait
Canter
What is it called when the rider "rises and falls with the leg on the wall"?
Posting
3 main functions of the hoof
protect the foot, cushion the leg, help with circulation of the leg, help horse move properly ( locomotion)
Yellow body with white mane and tail--the color of a "newly minted coin"
What is a Palomino? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg. 5
A horse who's front toes point inward.
What is pigeon toed? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg. 12
Faster, two beat lateral gait
Pace
Straight line drawn down from shoulder, hip, and heel on a rider
What is the ideal body position? Source: Horse and Horsemanship pg. 20?
The triangular structure on the bottom of the foot
What is the frog?
A yellow colored horse that has a dorsal stripe vs. a horse that is yellow and does not have a dorsal stripe
What is a Dun vs. Buckskin? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg. 4
A horse stands with its feet too close together
What is Base Narrow? Source: Horses and Horsemanship pg. 12
gait where the front foot and opposite hind end take off and land at the same time--example--the trot
Diagonal gait
Dressage seat saddle, crop, stirrup irons--these items would be used for what general type of competitions?
English
Rotation of the coffin bone causing pain happens in what condition and causes severe lameness
What is founder or Laminitis?