Balance
Balance can also be described as how ________________ a horse is
The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse
What is the withers?
The overall amount of muscle
What is muscle volume?
The two best horses in a class
Structure is evaluating a horse's _________________
What is skeleton? (will also accept bone structure/bones)
How balanced a horse is from head to tail
What is horizontal balance?
The area between the hoof and the fetlock joint
What is the pastern?
The shape that a horse's pectoral muscles should make when viewed from the front
What is a "V?"
When you list advantages of a horse who placed below another horse in a pair
What are grants?
Another name for a horse's back
How balanced a horse is from top to bottom
What is vertical balance?
The body of the horse, enclosing the rib cage and the major internal organs
What is the barrel?
Places you can look for muscling when viewing a horse on the profile (4 possible answers)
What are the shoulder, forearm, loin, and hindquarter.
Descriptive words used to tell a judge why you placed the class the way you did
What is terminology?
The angle of a horse's shoulder
What is 45o?
When a horse's knees are lower than its hocks (the front end is lower than the back end)
What is running downhill?
The part of a horse from the lumbosacral joint to the tail
What is the croup?
Two parts of the gaskin muscle
What are inner and outer?
The maximum number of points you can score with a set of reasons
A horse's pastern angle (hoof angle)
What is 45-50o?
What is 1:2?
The muscle that is the most consistent place to determine how muscular a horse is
What is the gaskin muscle?
When viewed from behind, the horse should be wider here than at the point of the hip
What is the stifle?
Words you can use to describe the bottom horse in a class
What are "-est" words?
How a horse's neck should tie into its shoulders
What is high?