Terminology

Question 1

Stallion

Answer 1

mature, intact male

Question 2

Gelding

Answer 2

a castrated male

Question 3

Colt

Answer 3

a young intact male (usually <3 or 4 years old)

Question 4

Mare

Answer 4

a mature female

Question 5

Filly

Answer 5

a young female (usually <3 or 4 years old)

Question 6

Foal

Answer 6

a young nursing horse of either sex

Question 7

Weanling

Answer 7

a horse separated from its mother during its birth year

Question 8

Yearling

Answer 8

a horse that is “one year old”
-for most breeds they turn one on Jan. 1

Question 9

Sire

Answer 9

the father of a horse

Question 10

Dam

Answer 10

the mother of a horse

Question 11

Half-sibling

Answer 11

a horse with the same dam

Question 12

Kingdom of the horse

Answer 12

animalia

Question 13

Phylum of the horse

Answer 13

chordata

Question 14

Class of the horse

Answer 14

mammalia

Question 15

Order of the horse

Answer 15

Perissodactyla

Question 16

Family of the horse

Answer 16

equidae

Question 17

Genus of the horse

Answer 17

equus

Question 18

Species

Answer 18

equus ferus

Question 19

Subspecies

Answer 19

Equus ferus caballus (all modern breeds of horses and ponies)

Question 20

Relatives of the horse within equus

Answer 20

-zebra
-asses
-prezwalski’s horse

Question 21

Wild horses in the US

Answer 21

mostly descended from domesticated horses that escaped domestication

Question 22

Domesticated horses have been selected for:

Answer 22

a need/function

Question 23

Disciplines

Answer 23

a grouping of similar performance activities with similar requirements

Question 24

Breed

Answer 24

a stock of animals (or plants) within a species having distinctive appearnance or other common traits, that have usually been developed by deliberate selection

Question 25

General groupings of horse breeds

Answer 25

-ponies
-drafts
-warmbloods
-light horses (stock horses, race/hunter seat type, saddle seat/gaited type, miniature horses, colored horses)

Question 26

Common pony breeds

Answer 26

-welsh
-pony of the americas
-shetland
-hackney

Question 27

Common draft breeds

Answer 27

-belgian
-clydesdale
-percheron

Question 28

Common warmblood breeds

Answer 28

-danish warmblood
-hanoverian
-trakehner
-holsteiner

Question 29

Common stock type breeds

Answer 29

-american quarter horse
-american paint horse
-appaloosa

Question 30

Common race/hunter-seat type (light horse) breeds

Answer 30

-Thoroughbred
-standardbred
-American quarter horse

Question 31

Common saddle seat/gaited type breeds

Answer 31

-saddlebred
-tennessee walking horse
-rocky mountain horse

Question 32

Important and versatile light breeds of horse:

Answer 32

-Morgans
-Arabian

Question 33

Common color breeds/registries

Answer 33

-Appaloosa
-American paint horse
-Palomino
-Pinto

Question 34

Mule

Answer 34

female horse x male donkey

Question 35

Hinny

Answer 35

female donkey x male horse