Module 1 Flashcards
Three main types of horses enterprises
Breeding
Training
Boarding stables
Breeding
Breeding farms breed mares and sell the offspring
Training
For show and racing
Boarding stables
Feed and care foe horses that are owned by people who do not have facilities for keeping horses
Equines includes
Ponies
Mules
Burros
Donkey
Most popular breeds of horses in US, based on purebred registration.
Quarter horse
Thoroughbred
Paint
Appaloosa
Arabian
Major spectator sport of horse
Horse racing
Horse show
Rodeos
Used mainly for riding, driving , racing
Light horse
Very distinct characteristics that set them apart from other horse breed
Curly are intelligent and versatile
Quiet demeanor
American Bashkir Curly
Used for pressure riding, exhibition and stock horses
American Creme
Breed is small
Some have leopard or blanket marking.
First imported into the US 1957.
American gotland
Both refers to spotted or two-tone horses with white abd another color body marking
Paint And Pinto
Paint horses 3 different color patterns
Tobiano
Tovero
Overo
Head is marked in the same way as that of a solid-colored horse.
Tobiano
Has dark pigmentation around ear, which expand to cover the forehead and or eyes.
Tovero
Has a variable color head marking.
Overo
The color is snow white with pink skin, dark eyes.
Used as exhibition, pleasure, racing, and light draft horses.
American white
It is larger than many of ther light horses breeds.
Used mainly as a general utility horse, for pressure riding, driving and for crossbreeding.
Cleveland bay
This horse is noted for the paso Illinois and sobreandando
Peruvian paso
Is equally spaced, four-beat gait
Feet strike in the following order
(1) left hind foot (2) left front foot
(3) right hind foot (4) right front foot
Paso ilano
Usually fatlster and slightly more lateral than paso illano
Sobreandando
Four types of pinto horses:
Stock
Pleasure
Hunter
Saddle
Horse racing was common sport
Quarter horse
Spotted horses are common.
They are shown in the right
Rangerbred
Development of breed as a racehorse
Thoroughbred
Larger and heavier and more muscular than the light horse breed
Draft horses
Most heavies in draft horses
Belgian
Somewhat smaller than the Belgian, percheron and shire
Clydesdale
Are the largest of the draft horses breeds
Shire horse
Smallest of the draft horses breeds
Suffolk
Donkey is the common name of
Smaller than horse,has a longer ears and short, erect mane.
Ass
Male ass called
Jack
Female ass called
Jennet
Jack is crossed to mare called
Mule
Stallion is crossed to a Jennet
Hinny
Are used as children’s pets
Miniature donkey
