Horse Terminology (1)
Horse Terminology (2)
Horse Identification
Colors
Markings
100

What is a gelding?

What is a gelding.

100

Which of the following is an immature male horse?

What is a stallion.

100

Horses have a major impact on the economy.

What is true.

100

What horse will always have a black mane and tail?

What is a bay.

100

What is a white spot just on the horses forehead?

What is a star.

200

What is one hand equal to?

What is 4 inches.
200

How are today’s horses predominately used in the United States?

Companionship 

Racing

Riding 

200

Today horses are primarily used for…

monitoring and rounding up cattle, racing, riding, and sporting activities

200

A type of horse that will always have a dorsal stripe

What is a dun.

200

A patch of white on the horses nose.

What is a snip

300

What is the type of horse that is trained to monitor and round cattle?

What is a stock horse.

300

In the years before modern machinery, draft horses were important because they were used for work.

What is true.

300

What is a male horse not matured?

What is a stallion

300

A horse that is very pale in color

What is a perlino or cremello 

300

A narrow strip that goes the entire length of a horse's face.

What is a strip or stripe

400

A _____ is a horse under 14.2 hands tall and weighs between 500 and 900 pounds.

What is a pony.

400

What is a male horse kept for breeding?

What is a Stud Horse.

400

Which of the following is a job within the horse industry?

  1. Veterinarian

  2. Breeder

  3. Maintenance workers

400

A horse that is golden in color

What is a palomino

400

What is wider than a strip and goes the entire length of the horse's face?

What is a blaze.

500

Which of the following is a female horse under three years of age?

What is a a filly.

500

What do you call a mature female horse?

What is a mare.

500

What is a mature male horse called?

What is a stallion

500

Black in color but have the brown hairs on their flanks, muzzle, and elbows

What is seal brown.

500

A white marking that goes beyond the horse's cheek bone

What is bald faced.