Bits
The piece of the bit that goes in the horse's mouth.
What is mouthpiece?
What is an Arabian?
An adult female horse.
What is a mare?
What is the wall, sole, and frog?
This is a very collected trot.
The part of the bit that attaches to the reins.
What is the shank or cheek piece?
True or False: Horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal.
True
A castrated male horse.
What is a gelding?
This craftsman trims and shoes horses' hooves.
What is a farrier?
This is a very collected trot on the spot.
What is a piaffe?
A type of bit with a single center joint.
What is a snaffle?
True or False: Horses only breathe through their mouth, they cannot breathe through their nose.
False
A male horse under the age of 4.
What is a colt?
Hooves are made out of this, the same protein that our fingernails are made of.
What is keratin?
This is where the horse moves forward and sideways.
What is a leg yield?
A type of bit that creates leverage action often seen in western riding.
What is curb/leverage bit?
Name the 2 blind spots on the horse.
Directly in front and directly behind them.
A female horse under the age of 4.
What is a filly?
True or false: Horses have one toe.
True
In this move, the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time, flexed in the direction of travel.
What is the half-pass?
The part of a curb style bit mouth piece that rises in an upside down "u" shape.
What is a port?
What is 205?
An unaltered male horse.
What is a stallion?
This foot problem is most often compared to athletes foot in humans.
What is thrush?
This refers to the consistent connection the rider has on the horse's mouth throught the reins and which the horse should accept at all times.
What is contact?