Horse breeds Flashcards
Horse Breed:
- Pinto spotting pattern of white and dark colors
- highly valued for color and markings
- unique refinement and intelligence
American Paint horse
Horse Breed:
- color is: bay, black, brown, gray, and chestnut
- use for pleasure riding, showing, racing, and stock horses.
- Excels at sprinting short distances
- name got from outdistancing races in quarter mile or less
- clock speeds up to 55 km/h
American Quarter horse
or
Quarter Horse
Horse Breed:
- use for riding horse, driving, pleasure, jumper, and hunter
- most common riding horse in America
- Possesses several easy riding gaits and great vigor and style
- color: Bay, black, brown, gray, chestnut
American Saddlebred Horse
Horse Breed:
- Compete at racing trot or pace: trot opposite locomotion, and pace is same time uses of legs locomotion.
- Popular for its beauty, personality, speed, agility.
American Standardbred Horse
Horse Breed:
- Spots over the hip and loin, and some have no spots
- use for every horse activities, and parades.
- Name got from Palouse River of Idaho and Washington.
- trust worthy, highly intelligent, and very gentle
Appaloosa
Horse Breed:
- Color: Bay, dark brown, black with prominent white markings
- Use as a draft horse (use as a work horse)
- name got from a region in Scotland
- High leg action while walking or trotting
- Characterized by feather (long hair) on legs, attractive heads, and well-formed legs and feet
Clydesdale Horse
Horse Breed:
- All colors possible except Appaloosa
- Uneven head ratio to body
- Short neck
- Long dense tail
- Strong leg with hard hooves
- Ancestors are: Chinese, South, American, Arab, and Spanish Horses
Philippine Light Horse
or
Baguio Light Horse
Horse Breed:
- known as the “sports of the kings”
- Face and legs often have markings
- Has outstanding feet and stamina
Thoroughbred Horse
Horse Breed:
- Distinctive head shape, and high proud tail carriage.
- One of the oldest breed
- Known for its sprint and endurance
Arabian Horse
Horse Breed:
- Use only for show and pleasure riding
- Gaited breed (can move legs independently)
- Use also for long riding distances
- Uses for many civil war
Tennessee walking horse
Horse Breed:
- Riding and driving horse
- Excel in western and saddle seat disciplines
- state of animal in Vermont
- one of the oldest breed developed in US
Morgan Horse
Horse Breed:
- in the past, used as pets by nobility and work for coal mines, now as a driving horses
- only 34-38 inches size
- Looks like pony but classified as horse
Miniature Horse
Horse Breed:
- Most as gray or bay
- use for driving, saddle seat, jumping, and dressage.
- Strong, compact, and elegant.
- Known as war horse
- long, thick mane and tails.
Andalusian Horse
Not a breed but a group that encompasses a number of types and breeds.
Characterized by open stud book policies and known for their prowess as sport horses.
Warmbloods group
