This color has a reddish brown body with a black mane and tail.
Bay
100
A gait in which the front foot and opposite hind foot take off and stop at the same time or in sequence.
What is a diagonal gait?
100
How the mane of Western horses of stock type breeds are typically prepared for showing.
What is shortened to 4 inches or less?
100
A horse that is shorter than 14.2 hands high is called a what?
Pony
100
What are the two main styles of riding?
Western and English
200
This breed is the most common of the Easy-Gaited horses.
What is the Tennessee Walking Horse?
200
The period of time that a foot (or feet) is (are) on the ground bearing weight.
What is the Stance Phase?
200
The term describing a horse that is out of condition.
What is Soft?
200
What part of the horse shares its name with a coat color?
Chestnut
200
What are the four gaits of the horse?
Walk, Trot (jog), Canter (lope), Gallop
300
Which of these is a breed of horse?
A. Irish Wrought
B. Irish Draught
C. Irish Aisling
D. Irish Spirit
B. Irish Draught
300
This gait resembles a slow, broken, uncollected trot and involves the fore foot striking the ground an instant before the diagonal hind foot.
What is the Fox Trot?
300
This is the process of building up conditioning through hours of walking and trotting is called.
What is Legging Up?
300
Where on the horse is the canon located?
Lower leg (below the knee)
300
The maximum percentage of body weight in grain that horses should get.
What is .5 per cent?
400
Which of these horse breeds is the tallest?
A. Clydesdale
B. Morgan
C. Arabian
D. Shetland
A. Clydesdale
400
This gait is an easy, rhythmical, three-beat gait, where the first and third beats are made by two legs striking the ground independently and the second beat by the other two legs striking the ground at the same time.
What is the Canter?
400
This grooming tool is an excellent tool for removing dirt, mud, loose hair, and sweat marks from the body and neck of a horse but should not be used on sensitive or bony areas.
What is a Curry Comb?
400
To measure a horse, you go from the ground to a horse's what?
A. Top of its head
B. Top of its ears
C. Withers
D. Back
C. Withers
400
Soybean meal, cottonseed meal, and linseed meal are common ____________________ supplements in horse rations.
What is Protein?
500
This breed of horse is golden in color with light colored manes and tails which contain no more than 15 per cent dark or chestnut hair.
What is Palomino?
500
This gait is a fast, flashy, evenly timed, four-beat gait which is similar to the stepping pace but the feet stop and start at the same interval.
What is the Rack?
500
How the mane of Hunter horses are usually prepared for showing.
What is shortened and braided?
500
One hand equals how many inches?
Four
500
True or False: Pure alfalfa hay has the correct ratio calcium to phosphorous for feeding foals and weanlings.