Category F: Breeds DONE Flashcards
What color skin does a white horse have?
Pink
What is a long narrow band of white working from the forehead downs towards the muzzle?
Stripe
The word, Pinto is a Spanish word meaning what?
Painted
What determines if an animal is a pony or a horse?
It’s size
What is a written record of all relatives including mother, father, grandfather, grandmother, and great grandparents of a particular horse?
Pedigree
What is a horse called when it’s parents are both recorded in the same breed registry and it is also eligible to be registered with the breed association?
Registered horse
What is the term for a horse whose mother and father are of different breeds or breed type?
Crossbred
Where did the quarter horse originate?
USA
What basic color would have a body that is basically red but varies from bright yellowish red to rich mahogany red with a mane and tail that is never black?
Chestnut
What color is the mane and tail of a bay colored horse?
Black
What coat color has a body color of black or brown with lighter areas at the muzzle, eyes, flank and inside upper legs with a dark mane and tail?
Brown
Where did the Clydesdale draft horse originate?
Scotland
Where did the American Saddle horse originate?
USA
Where did the Appaloosa originate?
USA
Where did the Arabian originate?
Arabia
Where did the Percheron draft horse originate?
France
Where did the Standardbred originate?
USA
Where did the Pinto registry originate?
USA
Where did the Palomino registry originate?
USA
Where did the Missouri Fox Trotting horse originate?
Missouri, USA
Where did the Morgan originate?
New England states, USA
Which breed is the oldest purebred and is found in the background of many other light breeds?
Arabian
Which breed has a natural fox trot gait, a rapid flat walk, and a rocking chair canter?
Missouri Fox Trotting horse
Where did the Paint horse originate?
USA
Where did the Pony of Americas originate?
USA
Where did the Quarter horse originate?
USA
Where did the Shetland pony originate?
Shetland Isles of Scotland
Which draft breed of horse has mostly blacks and grays for coat colors?
Percheron
Where did the Tennessee Walking horse originate?
Middle basin of Tennessee, USA
Where did the Thoroughbred originate?
England
Where did the Welsh pony originate?
Wales
What breed is usually golden with a white mane and tail?
Palomino
Which breed will always be no taller then 34 inches?
Miniature horse
Name a breed that would have small dark spots on a blanket of white on the rump, mottled skin, and striped hooves.
POA or Appaloosa
What is the term for the long leg hair found on the lower legs of draft horses?
Feathers or Feathering
Which breed is noted for its for trot gait?
Missouri Fox trotting horse
Which breed is known for its running walk gait?
Tennessee Walking horse
Which breed is known for its speed at the trot or pace in harness racing?
Standardbred
Which breed is known for its speed at the run in races up to 1 1/2 miles long and is also used as jumpers and dressage horses?
Throroughbred
What is a mark of identification that may be burned on the cheek, shoulder, or hip of the horse?
Brand
Many brown horses are mistakenly called what color?
Black
What coat color is basically red with a mane and tail that is the same color as the body or lighter?
Chestnut
A true white horse is born and dies what color?
White- It does not change
What color is some shade of yellow with a darker stripe down their back?
Dun
Which coat color is solid dark color or may have a few white hairs mixed with hairs of a basic and gets more and more white hairs in its coat as it gets older?
Grey
What coat color is spotted with more than one one color in large irregular patches or spots?
Pinto
What coat color has white hairs mixed in with another darker color with out adding more white hairs as it gets older?
Roan
What roan color has white hairs mixed with a chestnut base coat color?
Strawberry roan
What roan color has white hairs mixed in with a bay base coat color?
Red roan
What roan color has white hairs mixed in with a black base coat color?
Blue roan
What face marking is a small clearly defined area of white hairs on the forehead called?
Star
What face marking is a small patch of white which runs over the muzzle, often to the lips?
Snip
What face marking is a long narrow band of white working from the forehead down towards the muzzle called?
Stripe
What face marking is a wide white stripe down the face called?
Blaze
What face marking has white over most of the flat surface of the face, often including the eyes and nostrils?
Bald face
What is the normal color of the eye of most horses?
Brown
What leg marking is a white strip covering the coronet band?
Coronet
What leg marking is white extending from the coronet to and including the pastern?
Pastern
What leg marking is white extending from the coronet to and including the fetlock?
Ankle
What leg marking is white extending from the coronet to the middle of the cannon?
Half stocking
What leg marking is white extending from the coronet to and including the knee or hock?
Full stocking
What is a tail that has very little hair on it?
Rat tailed
What color term describes black mane, tail, ear tips, muzzle and legs?
Black points
What coat color is more or less a uniform mixture of white with black hairs on the body, but usually darker on the head and lower legs?
Blue roan
What hair coat color will have dark eyes and totally pink skin?
White
Which breed of horse is known as the “horse with the fine walk”?
Paso Fino
What coat color has a body that is yellowish or gold with a mane and tail what is black with black on the lower legs?
Bucksin
What is the rarest pinto pattern?
Splashed white
Which breed began in 1978 in Arlington, Texas for registering the smallest possible perfect horse?
American Miniature Horse
What coat color is yellowish or gold with a mane and tail that is black, brown, red, yellow, white, or mixed, usually has a dorsal stripe, zebra stripes on the legs and transverse stripe over the withers?
Dun
What coat color is golden yellow with a mane and tail that is white with no dorsal stripe?
Palomino
Which registry’s objective is to breed the smallest possible perfect horse?
American Miniature Horse Association
What coat color has a body color of brown or black with light areas at the muzzle, eyes, flank, and inside of the upper legs with a black mane and tail?
Brown
What is a group of animals that has certain distinguishable characteristics, such as color, function, and conformation and that passes these traits to the next generation?
Breed
What coat color ranges from tan through reddish brown, with black mane and tail and usually black on lower legs?
Bay
What coat color has a body color that is yellowish or flesh-colored with a mane, tail, and dorsal stripe that are red?
Red dun