Horse Terminology (1)
What is a gelding?
What is a gelding.
Which of the following is an immature male horse?
What is a stallion.
Horses have a major impact on the economy.
What is true.
What horse will always have a black mane and tail?
What is a bay.
What is a white spot just on the horses forehead?
What is a star.
What is one hand equal to?
How are today’s horses predominately used in the United States?
Companionship
Racing
Riding
Today horses are primarily used for…
monitoring and rounding up cattle, racing, riding, and sporting activities
A type of horse that will always have a dorsal stripe
What is a dun.
A patch of white on the horses nose.
What is a snip
What is the type of horse that is trained to monitor and round cattle?
What is a stock horse.
In the years before modern machinery, draft horses were important because they were used for work.
What is true.
What is a male horse not matured?
What is a stallion
A horse that is very pale in color
What is a perlino or cremello
A narrow strip that goes the entire length of a horse's face.
What is a strip or stripe
A _____ is a horse under 14.2 hands tall and weighs between 500 and 900 pounds.
What is a pony.
What is a male horse kept for breeding?
What is a Stud Horse.
Which of the following is a job within the horse industry?
Veterinarian
Breeder
Maintenance workers
A horse that is golden in color
What is a palomino
What is wider than a strip and goes the entire length of the horse's face?
What is a blaze.
Which of the following is a female horse under three years of age?
What is a a filly.
What do you call a mature female horse?
What is a mare.
What is a mature male horse called?
What is a stallion
Black in color but have the brown hairs on their flanks, muzzle, and elbows
What is seal brown.
A white marking that goes beyond the horse's cheek bone
What is bald faced.