Dictionary of Equine Terms - W Flashcards
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This type of coach, used for public service between towns, has a low body with two lengthwise facing seats and a rear entrance.
Wagonette
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What part of the English saddle is just forward of the seat?
Waist (also called the twist)
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When a jockey holds his horse back at the start and in the early stages of a race to be able to come to the front at the latter stages of the race, it’s known as a what?
Waiting race
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What is a waiting race?
When a jockey holds his horse back at the start and in the early stages of a race to be able to come to the front at the latter stages of the race.
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This Australian breed is a docile, courageous horse originally used by the military.
Waler
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Where does the horse breed, the Waler, originate from?
Australia
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A natural, slow gait of four beats in which each foot strikes the ground in separate intervals in the following sequence: near hind, near fore, off hind, off fore.
Walk
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This piece of equipment is used to exercise horses, consisting of several arms extending from a central pole. Horses are tied to the end of the arms and follow it in a circular path.
Walker
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A piece of equipment used to exercise horses, consisting of several arms extending from a central pole.
Walker
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This breed was originally developed for plantation riding and is characterized by an easy, running walk.
Walking Horse, or Tennessee Walking Horse
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What is a Walking Horse Class?
Any of various competitions held for Tennessee Walking Horses at horse shows.
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Any of various competitions held for Tennessee Walking Horses at horse shows.
Walking Horse Class
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An organization designed to promote the Tennessee Walking Horse
Walking Horse Owners Association
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In racing, what is a walkover?
A race in which only one horse has been declared a starter.
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What is the term for a race in which only one horse has been declared a starter? Generally, to qualify for the prize money, the horse has to be saddled, paraded before the crowd, and then walked past the winning post.
Walkover
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To qualify for prize money in a walkover race, what must a horse do?
Be saddled, paraded before the crowd, and then walked past the winning post.
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How many horses are in a walkover race?
One
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What is a Walk-Trot Class?
For young, beginning riders (generally less than nine years of age) and the walk and trot are the only required gaits.
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Walk-Trot Classes are generally for young, beginning riders less than what age?
Nine years of age
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What is a walk-trot horse?
A show term meaning a saddle horse that only walks, trots, and canters; distinguished from the five-gaited horse.
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Give the show term meaning a saddle horse that only walks, trots, and canters; distinguished from the five-gaited horse.
Walk-trot horse
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An upright show-jumping obstacle made of hollow wooden blocks that are painted and stacked to look like a brick wall.
Wall
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A cross-country obstacle built of brick, concrete blocks, sleepers, or stone.
Wall
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This term is used to describe lack of pigment in the iris.
Walleyed (also referred to as glass, blue, china, or crockery eye)
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