Kentucky-Senior-Breeds and Breed Registries

Question 1

Q.: Name the most numerous light horse breed in Europe.

Answer 1

A.: Hanoverians

Question 2

Q.: What year was the AHSA founded?

Answer 2

A.: 1917

Question 3

Q.: What is the term for a Standardbred horse that races with a diagonal gait?

Answer 3

A.: Trotter

Question 4

Q.: What do the initials “USDF” stand for?

Answer 4

A.: United States Dressage Foundation

Question 5

Q.: What breed of show pony was produced by crossing Hackney & Shetland pony.

Answer 5

A.: The Americana

Question 6

Q.: Define quality.

Answer 6

A.: Fineness of texture; freedom from coarseness; refinement of hair, hide and bone

Question 7

Q.: What two gaits does a 5-gaited horse have that the 3-gaited horse does not?

Answer 7

A.: Slowgate and rack

Question 8

Q.: In 1894, Colonel Battel founded the Register for which breed of horses?

Answer 8

A.: Morgans

Question 9

Q.: On what are Conformation Working Horses judged ?

Answer 9

A.: Performance, soundness and conformation

Question 10

Q.: For what do the initials USTA stand?

Answer 10

A.: Unites States Trotting Association

Question 11

Q.: For what does AHSA stand?

Answer 11

A.: American Horse Show Association

Question 12

Q.: Which breed of horses are characterized by leopard spot markings?

Answer 12

A.: Appaloosa

Question 13

Q.: What draft breed is only chestnut in color?

Answer 13

A.: Suffolk

Question 14

Q.: What is a male donkey called?

Answer 14

A.: A Jack

Question 15

Q.: What is the Connemara Pony known for?

Answer 15

A.: Its jumping ability

Question 16

Q.: The American Paint Horse Association is devoted strictly to stock horses and bases its registry on blood of what three breeds?

Answer 16

A.: Paints, Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds

Question 17

Q.: What club registers the breed that has been referred to as the essential oil of horse flesh, of which 1/3 of these horses are bred in the State of Kentucky and used for running races?

Answer 17

A.: Jockey Club

Question 18

Q.: Approximately 99% of all standardbreds trace to what horse?

Answer 18

A.: Hambletonian

Question 19

Q.: What is the birthdate of a horse in the Standardbred breed?

Answer 19

A.: January 1st

Question 20

Q.: Robert Bakewell, who developed many improved breeds of livestock, also initiated the improvement of what draft horse?

Answer 20

A.: The Shire

Question 21

Q.: Name two breeds of the “Native Horse.”

Answer 21

A.: Chickasaw Horse, Spanish Mustangs, Spanish-Barb, American Mustang

Question 22

Q.: What animal is known for a dorsal stripe running from mane to tail that is intersected by the arms of cross at the withers?

Answer 22

A.: Scicilian donkey

Question 23

Q.: Can a Welsh Pony be skewbald or piebald?

Answer 23

A.: No

Question 24

Q.: Name a small, dun-colored, genuine wild species of horse that was formerly abundant in southern Russia and Central Asia.

Answer 24

A.: The Tarpan, Prezwalski’s horse

Question 25

Q.: The paso gait has 5 forms - name the three most important.

Answer 25

A.: Paso fino, Paso corto, Paso largo

Question 26

Q.: How much does an aluminum racing plate weigh?

Answer 26

A.: 2-3 oz

Question 27

Q.: When capitalized, what does Half-Bred mean?

Answer 27

A.: Denotes a horse sired by a Thoroughbred and registered in the Half-Bred Stud Book

Question 28

Q.: What is the difference in muscling of the forearm between the Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred?

Answer 28

A.: Quarter Horse - muscling is shorter and heavier than the Thoroughbred; Thoroughbred - longer and leaner than the Quarter Horse

Question 29

Q.: Name four classifications of mules.

Answer 29

A.: Draft, sugar, cotton farm, packing and mining

Question 30

Q.: Give the sequence of movement of the hooves for the paso gait.

Answer 30

A.: Right rear, right fore; left rear, left fore; the hind foot touches the ground a fraction of a second before the front foot

Question 31

Q.: What breeds were developed from the need for a comfortable ground covering, smooth gaited riding and driving horse?

Answer 31

A.: American Saddle Horse