SHB Category: F, Breeds Flashcards
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Which means of identification is similar to fingerprints?
Photographs of patterns of the leg chestnuts
What is a narrow patch of white down over the muzzle?
Snip
What was the original name for the Suffolk?
Suffolk-Punches
What marking is white from the coronet to the fetlock?
Anklet or ankle
What are cowlicks?
Hair swirls in the coat
What color is a horse whose entire coat, including the muzzle, flanks, and legs are black?
Black
Where did the Tennessee Walking Horse originate?
Middle basin of Tennessee
What does the Spanish word, Grulla mean?
Blue Crane
Which breed was originally called the “Plantation Walking Horse?”
Tennessee Walking Horse
Where did the American Saddlebred originate?
In Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and later Missouri
What is the Spanish word for “Blue Crane”?
Grulla
What color are the points of the red dun?
Dark red
What breeds were crossed to produce the American Quarter Pony?
None, they are smaller quarter horses
What pony breed is famous for its extreme action of the front legs and the “rainbow” arch they form on the way to the ground?
Hackney
Which breed has been called the “Peacock” of the horse world?
American Saddlebred
Horses of unregistered, undistinguished, or unknown ancestry are called what?
Grades
Which breed of horse commonly has a rat tail?
Appaloosa
What is the Spanish word for Paint, painted, or spotted?
Pinto
What coat color is slate colored with no white hairs and black points?
Grulla
What was the primary use of the Suffolk?
Farm use
Which horse breed is the most numerous in Europe?
Hanoverian
What is the dominant color of the Suffolk?
Chestnut or blonde sorrel
Which breed is more susceptible to accidents and attacks by packs of dogs?
Miniature horse
What 2 breeds were crossed to produce the breed Morab?
Morgan and Arabian
A standardbred horse that races with a lateral gait is called what?
Pacer
What horse is the largest version of the Welsh?
Welsh cob
What breed of race horse races in a 2 beat gait?
Standardbred
What are the 5 basic coat colors in horses?
Black, white, brown, chestnut, and bay
What was the Appaloosa named after?
Palouse River
What draft breed is known as the ‘breed of blacks and grays’?
Percheron
No more than what percentage of dark hairs is allowed in a palomino’s mane and tail?
15%
What is the dominant color of the Shire?
Black
What is a male ass called?
Jack
What color cannot be mixed in a grulla’s coat?
White
What are black points on a horse?
Black mane, tail, and extremities
Which pony breed is famed for being a jumper?
Connemara
Which is the largest of all draft breeds?
Shire
What is a frequent color of the Welsh pony, especially in England?
Gray
What are feathers on a horse?
Long silky hair on the lower legs
What are the 5 variations to the basic horse coat colors?
Dun, gray, palomino, pinto, roan
Bays and seal browns have what color of mane and tails?
Black
What color is a dilution of bay?
Buckskin or dun
What is a double dilution of bay?
Perlino
When most people think of a pony, which breed comes to mind first?
Shetland
Cheyenne Indians believed a certain marking had supernatural powers and invincibility, what was this pattern?
Medicine hat
Appaloosa and which other breed are often confused?
Rangerbred
What marking is white from the coronet to the pastern?
Pastern
What is the small, native feral ass of North and South America called?
Burro
What is a tail that is sparsely furnished with hair?
Rat tail
Which British draft breed does not have feathers?
Suffolk
What color refers to a straw yellow or off-white color caused by a mixture of dark or white hairs in the mane and tail?
Flaxen or flax
What color refers to a mostly white with a few dark hairs in the mane and tail?
Silver
What marking is a white strip covering the coronet band?
Coronet
What is the usual color of a horse’s eye?
Brown with no white around the edge of the eye
What is a wider patch of white down the face covering the full width of the nasal bones?
Blaze
What is a white marking covering the front of the face and extending over the sides of the face?
Bald face
What is a heavy, coarse, full tail called?
Broom or band tail
Which breed began about 350 miles from the Arctic Circle about 100 miles north of Scotland?
Shetland pony
What is a white mare on the forehead called?
Star
What eye characteristic is required by the Appaloosa?
White sclera around the eye
What color will range from a light golden red to a dark mahogany color with lower legs, mane and tail are always black?
Bay
What color will range from light golden red to a very dark chocolate shade but the legs will never have black points?
Chestnut
What color is dark enough to appear black except that close examination will reveal brown or tan hairs about the muzzle or flanks?
Seal brown
Legend says that this marking was a reward for carrying Mary to Bethlehem and Jesus to Jerusalem, what is this marking of the miniature donkey?
Cross marking that runs from the mane to the tail intersected by the arms of the cross at the withers
What color is the dorsal stripe on a red dun or claybank dun?
Dark red (never black)
Which Mediterranean breed was imported by the owners of the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds baseball teams?
Miniature donkey
What is a double dilution of chestnut?
Cream or cremello
Which color has a blue or yellowish tone with no white hairs and has black points?
Grulla
What color is a dilution of chestnut?
Palomino
What color is a dilution of black?
Grulla
Where did the Shetland pony originate?
Shetland isle near Arctic Circle
What color is ivory white with slightly darker, rust-appearing points
Perlino
Which breed is noted for its action, dramatic feathering, and 6- or 8-horse hitches?
Clydesdale
What is a cross between a stallion and a jennet?
Hinny
What are small asses called?
Donkeys
What is the most distinguishable difference between the sorrel and bay hair coat colors?
Bay always has black points and sorrel does not
What is the long silky hair on the lower legs of a horse?
Feathers
What is the rarest pinto pattern?
Splashed white
Which pony breed has been called “the prince of ponies”?
Hackney pony
What coat color has the body color of brown or black with light areas at the muzzle, eyes, flank, and inside of upper legs with a black mane and tail?
Brown
Which pinto pattern will often have a bald face, at least one leg will be dark in color and body markings are usually irregular, scattered, or splashy white markings that commonly do not cross between the back between the withers and tail?
Overo
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
What coat color ranges from tan through red to reddish brown, with a black mane and tail and usually black on lower legs?
Bay
What coat color is golden yellow with a mane and tail that is white with no dorsal stripe?
Palomino
What is the most common white pattern in horses?
White markings on face and legs
What hair coat color will have dark eyes and totally pink skin?
White
What is the background color of a strawberry roan?
Chestnut
Name the 4 identifiable characteristics which in part or combination will earn an appaloosa regular registration with the ApHC
Coat pattern, mottled skin, vertically striped hooves, white sclera around the eye
The hair coat of a foal will be solid colored, but with each consecutive hair coat, more and more white hairs will be added until what color becomes evident?
Gray
What color is the dorsal stripe on a red dun horse?
Dark red
What is the claim to fame of the Connemara breed?
Ability as a jumper
What is a white leg marking from the coronet to the fetlock?
Ankle
Who was the foundation sire of the Morgan breed?
Justin Morgan
What is the only breed to be named after a horse?
Morgan
What term describes a horse’s wide, white face marking that does not include its eyes or the side of its face?
Blaze
What is the term for sparse hair in the tail?
Rat tail
What term describes the horse’s mane and tail that is straw colored?
Flaxen
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
Which breed of horse is known as the ‘horse with the fine walk’?
Paso Fino
What coat color has a body color that is yellowish or gold with a mane and tail that is black with black on the lower legs?
Buckskin
What coat color is more or less a uniform mixture of white and black hairs on the body, but usually darker on the head and lower legs?
Blue Roan
Which breed of draft horse is known as the ‘Breed of Blacks and Grays’?
Percheron
Dappling can occur within any color pattern but is more obvious on what color?
Gray
Name the horse breed that got its name because it could run a quarter of a mile on short, flat stretches in villages of colonial America.
American Quarter Horse
How can true white areas on a pinto or paint be confirmed?
They are present at birth, grow out of pink skin, do not change with age
Name the mouse colored horse that results from a dilution of black
Grulla
What is the most common pinto pattern?
Tobiano
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 marking is white from the coronet to the knee?
Stocking or Full stocking
Gray on a bay or chestnut will be called what?
Rose gray
What is white about the front of the coronet or the heel?
White marks or white spots
What coat color ranges from bright copper to light yellow with lighter-to-white mane and tail?
Palomino
Which breed began in 1978 in Arlington, Texas for registering the smallest possible perfect horse?
American miniature horse
What term classifies a group of horses that have distinguishable characteristics?
Breed
Which registry’s objective is to breed the smallest possible perfect horse?
American Miniature Horse Association
Name 3 of the different pinto color patterns other than overo and tobiano
Frame overo, calico, splashed white, tovero
Where did the Percheron originate?
France
Which breed is noted for its extensive white face and leg markings, silky feathers, and long springy strides with extreme flexion of the knees and hocks?
Clydesdale
Which breed was popular for its uniformity in color, ease of management, and strength in pulling contests?
Belgian
Which 2 draft breeds usually has very little white markings on the legs and face?
Suffolk and Percheron
Which 2 draft breeds began from the English Great Horse?
Shire and Clydesdale
Where did the Clydesdale originate?
Scotland
Where did the Belgian originate?
Belgium
Where did the Suffolk originate?
England
Which draft breed began in Belgium?
Belgian
Which 2 draft breeds originated in England?
Suffolk and Shire
Which horse became famous because of his outstanding progany because of his ability, according to stories that still persist, to out-run, out-pull, out-walk, and out-trot all competition?
Justin Morgan
What is the only cross that will always produce a palomino colored horse?
Cremello X Chestnut
What coat color is a more or less uniform mixture of white with red hairs on the body, but usually darker on the head and lower legs can have red black or flaxen mane and tail?
Red roan
Name one of the riding characteristics of the appaloosa that the Nez perce Indians tried to maintain.
Endurance and surefootedness
What breed was originally called the ‘Kentucky Saddler’?
American Saddlebred
Which horse is the foundation sire for the American Saddlebred?
Denmark
Which breed is quiet and docile but is somewhat slow-motioned and does not show much leg action but is distinguished in pulling contests?
Belgian
What is started by crossing 2 or more breeds then mating among the first generation of crossbred animals?
Synthetic breeds
Which breed was developed by the Nez Perce Indians?
Appaloosa
What does the term skewbald refer to?
Spotted horse with white and any other color except black
In what breed is the rat tail common?
Appaloosa
Which form of dun has a body color that is yellowish or flesh-colored with a mane, tail, and dorsal stripe that are red?
Red dun
What does the term double registered mean?
Horse that is registered in an individual breed association as well as a color registry
What breed has one less lumbar vertebra than other breeds?
Arabian
The American name, Palomino, was derived from what?
Color of the golden grape in California, the Palomino grape
What is a dun horse with roan characteristics whose yellow hairs are mixed with brown or black with black points, a dorsal stripe, and no white hairs in coat?
Grulla
What was the primary use of the Shetland pony in its native surroundings?
Worked in mines as a miniature draft horse
Which breed was originated partly as the result of the failure of the AQHA to register spotted horses?
American Paint Horse Association
Name 3 breeds of horses that are principally “gaited” horses.
Tennessee Walking Horse, American Saddlebred, Paso Fino
In the International Buckskin Association, which colors must have a dorsal stripe?
Grulla, red dun, dun (buckskin does not require a dorsal stripe for registration)
Which 2 types of animals are excluded from being registered in the Palomino Horse Breeders Assoc. or Palomino Horse Assoc.?
Pony and draft breeds
Dark liver and black chestnut colors are found mostly in which breed of horse?
Morgan
What coat color is reddish or copper-red with a mane and tail usually the same color as the body but may be flaxen?
Sorrel
Which draft breed is known as the biggest, has feathering, and is dominantly black although bay and dark brown are known?
Shire
How does the Suffolk differ from the other 2 British draft breeds?
It has no feathers
Of the 5 major cold blooded breeds, which is the only one to have an infusion of Arabian or Barb blood?
Percheron
What 2 breeds is hip dysplasia most common?
Standardbred and Shetland Pony
Which American breed derived its name from a grape of California?
Palomino
What coat color is a mixture of white with any colored hairs, often born solid-colored or almost solid colored, and gets lighter with age as more white hairs appear?
Gray
What happens when a horse inherits 2 dominant white genes?
Dominant white is lethal. 1/4 of foals will be re-absorbed and never seen, 2/3 are bone white and 1/3 will be colored.
What coat color is dark red or brownish red with a mane and tail that is usually dark red, brownish red, or flaxen?
Chestnut
What is the difference between a piebald and a skewbald?
Piebald is black with white spots, skewbald is spotted horse of white and any other color other than black
Which pony breed is considered to be an adult’s pony, too small to be ridden by an adult and too spirited and frisky for most children?
Hackney pony
Which draft breed originated in France?
Percheron
Which draft breed originated in Scotland?
Clydesdale
What percentage of hackneys that are registered each year are ponies?
95%
What is a purebred horse?
One registered with a particular breed association
The American Horse Council estimates that the Quarter horse is the most popular breed in the U.S. What type of horse ranks second?
Grade horse
For what use were Conestoga horses prized?
Freight haulers
Which pony breed is almost exclusively for showing in harness classes?
Hackney pony
What is a crossbred?
Horse that has at least one registered parent and are usually crosses between two different breeds
Which stallion was the foundation stallion of the POA?
Black Hand Number 1
Where did the Percheron originate?
France
Give 2 other names for the American Jack.
Mammoth Jack, Standard Jack
Which breeds were crossed to produce the American Walking Pony?
Tennessee Walking Horse and Welsh Pony
Where did the Peruvian Paso originate?
Peru
The hallmark of the hackney was and remains its what?
Extreme flexion of knees and hocks
What percentage of Hackneys register as ponies?
95%
What is the only draft breed that has hot blooded ancestry?
Percheron
Which breed was founded by the Thompson’s of Naper, Nebraska when they purchased Old King who became the foundation sire for the breed?
Albino
What was Justin Morgan’s name as a foal and why was it changed?
Figure, it changed because it was the custom that if the master died, the horse took the owner’s name.
What breed is the most numerous in Europe and excels as heavy hunters, show jumpers, and dressage horses?
Hanoverians
What is the tallest of the draft breeds?
Shire
What is the only British draft breed without feathers?
Suffolk
The ancestors of which breed began in the severe terrain of Wales even before the Roman Legions invaded the British Isles?
Welsh Mountain Pony
What color is a dappled chestnut with a silver or white mane and tail?
Silver dapple
Which breed of horse was captured from members of the DeSoto expedition by Southeastern Indians?
Chickasaw
The ancestors of the hackney horse were bred for riding and driving horses in England, where the term hackney was synonymous with what other term?
Roadster
