Tack

Question 1

Name a type of saddle

Answer 1

Dressage, Jump, GP/General Purpose

Question 2

What is the sloping and rounded back part of the saddle called?

Answer 2

Cantle

Question 3

What is the piece of leather that sits over the stirrup bars called?

Answer 3

Skirt

Question 4

What item of tack is used to stop a saddle from slipping backwards?

Answer 4

Breastplate

Question 5

Is a numnah a saddle pad shaped like the saddle or a square?

Answer 5

Saddle

Question 6

What is the front part of the saddle called, the part that sits over the withers?

Answer 6

Pommel

Question 7

How many wrinkles should there be in the lips above the bit?

Answer 7

1 or 2

Question 8

According to the Manual of Horsemanship what are the six families of bits?

Answer 8

Snaffle, Double bridle (curb), Pelham, Gag, Lever Bit, Bitless Bridles

Question 9

What are the names of the two bits in a double bridle?

Answer 9

Weymouth and Bradoon

Question 10

What is the leather part that holds the snaffle bit in a double bridle, it acts as the cheek pieces for the snaffle bit?

Answer 10

Slip head

Question 11

What do you use when jumping to protect the horses sternum area from injury from the studs?

Answer 11

Studgirth

Question 12

Name two types of leather girth?

Answer 12

Balding/Atherstone/Threefold/Dressage

Question 13

Names three types of martingale?

Answer 13

Running, standing, Irish, bib

Question 14

Bits are measured for size by measuring the mouthpiece inside the rings or including the rings?

Answer 14

The mouthpiece inside the rings

Question 15

What is the name for the item that would,hold,the curb chain if it came unhooked?

Answer 15

Lip strap

Question 16

What teeth can interfere with the bit?

Answer 16

Wolf teeth

Question 17

There are seven bitting pressure points on the horses head, name the four in the horses mouth?

Answer 17

Lips, tongue, bars, roof of mouth

Question 18

Name the final three bitting pressure points?

Answer 18

Poll, nose, chin groove