1. C1​​Q.​What does the term hippophile describe?25.​​Q.​You do the math… If a horse should be fed at 2% of its body ​​​weight in total feed each day, how much total feed should ​​​a 1000 pound horse receive in a day?

Question 1

What does the term hippophile describe?

Answer 1

Horse lover

Question 2

What is the four-beat gait of the American Saddlebred horse
​​​​that is similar to but slower than the rack?

Answer 2

Slow gait

Question 3

What term describes when the rail or top element of a jump
​​​​is dislodged by a horse in an over-fences competition?

Answer 3

Knockdown

Question 4

Two horses simultaneously scratching each other on the neck
and over the withers and back would be an example of which
behavior category?

Answer 4

Epimeletic behavior

Question 5

Which vitamin is known as the “sunshine vitamin”?

Answer 5

Vitamin D

Question 6

What term refers to a horse that has too much slope to its pastern?

Answer 6

Coon-footed

Question 7

All of the lower teeth are located in which bone?

Answer 7

Mandible

Question 8

Identify one additional piece of tack that would be added to
​​​​the McClellan saddle to make it more suitable for packing.

Answer 8

Breast collar

Question 9

What is the country of origin for the Connemara Pony?

Answer 9

Ireland

Question 10

What is the base coat color of a blue roan?

Answer 10

Black

Question 11

What term describes the slope of the land when completing an
​​​​“environmental analysis” of the site for a new horse facility?

Answer 11

Topography

Question 12

What is the average speed for the trot or jog?​

Answer 12

6 to 8 miles per hour

Question 13

Which parasite causes habronemiasis or summer sores?

Answer 13

Stomach worm

Question 14

What is the main symptom of a horse that has grazed red
​​​clover that is affected with the mold commonly known as
​​​“black patch”?

Answer 14

Excessive salivation or slobbering

Question 15

Identify two types of hitches used to secure a load on a pack saddle.

Answer 15

Single, double, triple or half diamond; Squaw or Arizona

Question 16

What are the four criteria used to evaluate stallion semen?

Answer 16

Volume, concentration, motility and morphology

Question 17

What horse is the foundation sire for the Morgan breed?

Answer 17

Justin Morgan

Question 18

In general, foals weaned at 4 months should be fed a diet​​
​​​containing what percent protein?

Answer 18

16 percent protein

Question 19

Cirrhosis is a chronic disease that affects which organ?

Answer 19

Liver

Question 20

In general, what is the main difference when performing
the dressage movements known as the passage and the piaffe?

Answer 20

​​The passage is a cadenced trot with a marked period of suspension.
​​​The piaffe is a collected trot “in place”. (The passage is with
​​​forward motion and the piaffe is without forward movement)​

Question 21

Identify the three classifications of muscles.

Answer 21

​​Smooth, skeletal and cardiac ​​​​

Question 22

What term refers to the type of striding leg interference where
​​​the hind foot on one side strikes the diagonal forefoot?

Answer 22

Cross-firing

Question 23

What is the purpose of an antipyretic medication?

Answer 23

Fever-reducing medication

Question 24

Which current breed of horse was formerly known as
​​​The American Trotting Horse?

Answer 24

Standardbred

Question 25

You do the math… If a horse should be fed at 2% of its body
​​​weight in total feed each day, how much total feed should
​​​a 1000 pound horse receive in a day?

Answer 25

20 pounds of total feed

Question 26

Identify the fat-soluble vitamins.

Answer 26

Vitamins D, E, A and K

Question 27

What are the two general types of mortality insurance?

Answer 27

Full Mortality (All Risks Mortality) and Specified (Named) Peril

Question 28

What term refers to the practice of altering the teeth of an
​​​older horse in an attempt to make it sell as a younger horse?​

Answer 28

Bishoping

Question 29

Which equine disease is caused by an equid herpes virus?

Answer 29

Rhinopneumonitis

Question 30

Buck-kneed and calf-kneed are the two primary conformation
​​​defects that occur in the knees. Which of these defects is more
​​​common and considered to be less serious?

Answer 30

Buck-kneed

Question 31

What is the name for the small snaffle bit in a Weymouth bridle?

Answer 31

Bridoon (also accept bradoon)​​​​

Question 32

What international organization governs the rules and regulations
​​​for equine activities such as international driving, show jumping,
​​​three-day events and dressage?

Answer 32

​​FEI (Federation Equestre Internationale) (also accept International
​​​Equestrian Federation)

Question 33

What is the anatomical term for the inner layer of the uterus?

Answer 33

Endometrium

Question 34

Who is the foundation sire for the American Saddlebred horse?

Answer 34

Denmark

Question 35

Where is the location of the swing team in a 6-horse hitch?

Answer 35

The middle team

Question 36

When performed correctly, which hind foot should remain more
​or less in place when completing a spin to the right in a reining
​pattern?

Answer 36

Right hind foot

Question 37

Horses and ponies have 32 pairs or 64 chromosomes.
​How many chromosomes does the Przewalski’s horse have?

Answer 37

33 pairs or 66 chromosomes

Question 38

A “tie-down” is the Western term for what type of martingale?

Answer 38

Standing martingale

Question 39

Sweet clover poisoning results in altered blood clotting and
​a deficiency of which vitamin?

Answer 39

Vitamin K

Question 40

What term describes a horse that is gray with a basic coat
​color of red?

Answer 40

Rose gray

Question 41

What is the common term for the 1st premolar teeth?

Answer 41

Wolf teeth

Question 42

In regards to racing, what term describes the area where
​the horses are saddled and viewed before the race?

Answer 42

Paddock

Question 43

What breed of pony is the descendant of the survivors of a
​shipwreck off the coast of Virginia?

Answer 43

Chincoteague

Question 44

What anatomical structure is located in the vertebral foramen?

Answer 44

Spinal cord

Question 45

What is the minimum width of a gate that will be used to move
​equipment in and out of a pasture?

Answer 45

At least 12 feet wide

Question 46

Illness, fever and/or trauma to the testes would result in a lower
​sperm production. Normal production would not be restored
​until approximately how many days after the problem has been resolved?

Answer 46

​Approximately 65 days (accept anything in 60-65 range)

Question 47

Identify two of the three basic models of artificial vaginas.

Answer 47

Colorado, Missouri or Fujihara

Question 48

Identify three types of overo or “non-tobiano” paint or
​pinto horse colors.

Answer 48

​A.​Frame overo
​Calico
​Sabino
​Splashed white
​(Do not accept tovero as it is a combination of tobiano and overo)

Question 49

You do the math… A horse that is 66 inches tall would be
​how many hands tall?

Answer 49

16.2 hands tall

Question 50

In regards to watercourse management, what is the purpose
​of increasing the vegetative cover in drainage ditches or
​in buffer strips between steep slopes and waterways?

Answer 50

Slows down runoff water, increases absorption of runoff water,
​filters animal waste out of runoff water, filters soil out of runoff
​water, helps prevent soil erosion (only need to give one answer)

Question 51

Man-O-War and Secretariat were both known by what “nickname”?

Answer 51

Big Red

Question 52

The facial portion of the skull consists of what three cavities?

Answer 52

Orbital (surrounds the eye); nasal (nose) and oral (mouth)

Question 53

Identify five of the micro or trace minerals required by horses?

Answer 53

Cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, zinc

Question 54

What organization governs the rules for reining horses?

Answer 54

NRHA (National Reining Horse Association)

Question 55

The administration of a strangles vaccine on a farm with recurrent
​outbreaks of the disease would be an example of treating horses
​with a prophylactic medication. What is the purpose of a
prophylactic medication?

Answer 55

To prevent a disease

Question 56

What farrier tool is used to remove nails that are broken off
​even with the web of the shoe or to expand the nail holes
​in a shoe?

Answer 56

Pritchel

Question 57

What term refers to an organism whose chromosomes
​carry two identical members of a given allele pair?

Answer 57

Homozygous

Question 58

Identify the three basic types of bits.

Answer 58

​Curb, snaffle and hackamore

Question 59

Identify three considerations and/or potential hazards
​associated with feeding alfalfa pasture or hay.​

Answer 59

​Blister beetle poisoning
​Use with caution in older horses
​Use with caution in horses with decreased kidney function​​Use with caution in horses with decreased liver function
​(alfalfa contains higher amounts of protein and calcium)
​Use with caution in horses with equine metabolic disease
​Use with caution in horses with insulin resistance
​Potential for DOD (Developmental Orthopedic Diseases) due
​to the imbalance of Calcium and Phosphorus and increased
​amount of protein resulting in rapid growth
​Mycotoxin toxicosis
​Respiratory problems (more likely to be dusty or moldy)
​Colic (if excessive consumption of lush green alfalfa)
​Increased incidence of tying-up (due to increased calcium)
​Increased incidence of synchronous diaphragmatic flutter (thumps)
​(due to increased calcium)
​Need to balance Calcium: Phosphorus ratio

Question 60

In general, what structures in the horse are named for their
​action, shape and/or attachments?

Answer 60

Muscles

Question 61

For fire safety, a building for hay storage should be located
​at least how many feet from any other structure?

Answer 61

At least 100 feet away

Question 62

What structure of the horse’s foot does the farrier trim with
​the nippers?

Answer 62

Hoof wall

Question 63

What is the common term for the bacterial disease known as Tetanus?

Answer 63

Lock jaw