The breed which is the leading producer of stock horses.
What is the American Quarter Horse?
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
In these classes, the exhibitor is judged on his/her ability to prepare and present a horse at halter in a show ring.
What is Showmanship?
100
These are important building blocks for growth and repair of tissues.
What are Proteins?
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
True or False: Saddle Seat horses may be shown in showmanship in either a bridle or a halter depending on the breed.
What is True?
200
The typical range of gallons of water per day that horses should drink.
What is 12 to 20?
300
Paso Fino horses originated in this country.
What is Spain?
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
In Showmanship, when making turns of greater than ________, the horse is turned away from the exhibitor.
What is 90 degrees?
300
The maximum percentage of body weight in grain that horses should get.
What is .5 per cent?
400
This breeding must be present in order for a horse to be registered as a National Show Horse.
What is Arabian?
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
True or False: When leading and posing a horse, Western and Hunt Seat exhibitors may switch hands on the lead or rein.
What is False?
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
The term for a turn where the horse moves toward rather than away from the exhibitor in showmanship.
What is a Pull turn?
500
True or False: Pure alfalfa hay has the correct ratio calcium to phosphorous for feeding foals and weanlings.