Module 4 Flashcards
sorrel
color
- red
chestnut
color
- brown/red
bay
color
- brown with black points
palomino
color
- cream dilution gene
- cream body with white mane and tail
buckskin
color
- dark mane and tail with dark points and cream body color
brown
color
black
color
how many inches is 1 hand
4 inches
what does the barn mostly have
light horses
what are draft horses
cold bloods
what are warm bloods
European sport horses
cremello
color (paliminoXpalimino)
- double dilute
- red base
- cream colored body and cream/white mane and tail
perlino
color (palomino X palomino)
- cream color body but have a reddish tint to mane and tail
dun
color
- back stipe
- zebra stripes on legs
- dark, tan coat color
roan
color
- bay, red, blue
- solid coat color with white points
grullo
color
- smokey
gray
color
- black pigmented skin
- color gets lighter as they get older
American saddlebred
- gaited
- bred for show rings
- light harness
- three gated saddler (walk, trot, canter)
- very alert looking
- chestnut and bay
- 15-16 hands
- small elegant head
- high tail carriage (artificial)
- muscular
Arabian
- hot blood
- oldest purebred in the world
- stamina
- hereditary soundness
- intelligent
- high set tail
- small chiseled features
- long arched neck
- long arched neck
- chiseled features with dished face
- 14-15 hands; 1 less lumbar
- used for show, racing, and endurance
- mostly solid color
- big eyes
- small ears
Lipizzan
- connection to Spanish riding school of Vienna
- docility and intelligence
- 15-15.2 hands
- main color is gray
- strong legs
- strong back and quarters
- athletic
Morgan
- “Justin Morgan”: breeds foundation sire named after his second owner; horse had incredible durance and was 14 hands
- 14.1-15.2 hands
- big neck
- good conformation and strong
- shown under saddle and in harness
- active and versatile
- bay, brown, chestnut, black colors
- uses in endurance, dressage, and buggy
- attractive head set
- thick mane and tail
national show horse
- gaited
quarter horse
- north Americas most popular breed
- powerful hind quarters
- thick mane and tail
- head joins neck at 45 degrees
- 14.3-16 hands
- any solid color
- uses in pleasure riding, racing, cow-ponies, rodeos, trail
- raced over short distances and that’s how they got their name
standardbred
- harness
- gaited ( trotters and pacers)
- ex racehorse
- courageous
- tough
- plain headed
- 15-16 hands
- bay color
- uses for trotters, pacers, buggy horses
thoroughbred
- hot blood
- fine head set on elegant neck
- deep girth
- strong legs
- powerful quarters
- fastest horse in the world
- race horse
- dressage
- jumpers
- chestnut, bay, brown
- 15.2-17.2 hands
appaloosa
- six color patterns
- skin of nose, lips, and genitals is mottled
- white sclera
- feet are often vertically stiped
- mane and tail are sparse
- uses: general, pleasure, circus, racing, jumping
- 14.2-16 hands
what are the six color patterns of appaloosa’s
- leopard- dark spots on white background
- snowflake- light spots on a dark background
- spotted blanket- spots on the quarters and loins only
- marble
- frost
- white blanket- not spotted at all, consisting of white quarters and loin on an otherwise dark coat
paint
- paint=breed
- pinto=color
- color and pattern
- all purpose
- 2 coat colors and 2 coat patterns
- favorite mount of the Indians
- 14-15.2 hands
piebald (color)
broken patches of black and white
skewbald (color)
white and any other color except black
overo (pattern)
- recessive
- dark coat with white patches
- white starts on belly and extends up
- back mane and tail tend to be dark
tobiano
- dominant
- white coat with dark patches
- white usually starts on back and goes down body
pinto
color
mustang
feral
paso fino
gaited
Peruvian paso
gaited
rocky mountain horse
gaited
Tennessee walking horse
- gaited
- generally black
- big weighted shoes
- soring=bad
- flat foot walk
- rocking chair canter
- running walk
- high tail carriage
- feet may overreach each other by up to 18 inches
draft horses
- cold bloods
- work horses
- biggest and strongest
belgian
- Amish work horse
- not as much feathering
- sorrel to chestnut with creamy white mane and tail
- quiet and docile
- very muscular
- very popular
- 16-17 hands
Clydesdale
- bay or brown with extensive white on head and all 4 legs above knees and hocks
- much feathering
- Budweiser team
- number 3 draft breed in US
- less massive weight wise
English Shire
- black color and some bay, brown, and gray
- immensely strong and big barreled
- long feathery legs
- find head
- popular for show
Percheron
- well proportioned
- grey or black
- fine head
- powerful proportions
- stamina and endurance
- less feathering
friesian
- coach horse
- similar to Percheron but smaller and a lot more mane and tail
pony
14.2 hands
miniature horses
measured in inches instead of hands
American Shetland
- slightly larger pony
- abundant supply of mane and tail hair
- most popular pony
- gaited
- any color
fjord
look like przewalskis horse
przewalskis horse
only true wild horse
Haflinger
- hardy mountain breed
- always chestnut color with white facial markings
- flaxen (yellow color) mane and tail
- very stout
miniature horse
- not a pony
- miniature horse
- Falabella devolved by crossing a small TB with a small Shetland and then inbreeding occurred
- can be maldeveloped with deformities
pony of the americas
- look like appaloosa
- crossed a Shetland stallion to an appaloosa mare
- any of the 6 appaloosa colors
- willing
- active
- versatile
- head small; araby
- large eyes and small ears
- jumping classes
- trail rides
- racing
