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What breed of horse resides at the Vienna Spanish Riding School?
Lipizzaner
What breed cannot be taller than 34 inches at the withers to be registered?
American Miniature Horse
What is the color of an Albino horse?
white
Name 3 of the Draft breeds of horses.
percheron
Belgian
Clydesdale
Shire
Suffolk
American cream
What color is a horse with white hairs mixed into a base coat?
Roan
What draft breed is only chestnut in color?
Suffolk
Name the only breed named after a specific person.
Morgan, after Justin Morgan
What color horse has a golden yellow body and white mane and tail?
Palomino
In terms of colors, what is a double-dilute bay called?
Perlino
List 5 of the most common leg markings.
Coronet, pastern, ankle, half-stocking, white outside heels, white inside heels, ermine spotting or distal spots, sock.
Name 2 breeds of the Native Horse.
Chickasaw, American Indian Horse, Spanish Mustang, Spanish Barb, American Mustang, American Bashkir Curly, Rangerbred Horse
What breed of horses are characterized by Leopard spot markings?
Appaloosas
Name the two types of patterns used to describe Paints.
Tobiano and Overo
What is the Tarpan?
A wild horse of central Europe.
What are two of the four major variations of the basic coat colors?
Gray, Roan, Dilutions, Pinto-Paint
In what country did the Connemara ponies originate?
Ireland
Name and describe the three types of roan colors.
Red roan- bay with white hairs, Blue roan- black, brown, or liver chestnut with white hairs, Strawberry roan- chestnut with white hairs
What breed is readily identified by a finely chiseled head and dished face, long arching neck, high tail carriage, and small build?
Arabian
What color is a horse with a yellowish or gold body, black mane and tail, usually black on the lower legs, but no dorsal stripes?
Buckskin
What breed is characterized by the flat foot walk, running walk, and rocking chair canter?
Tennessee Walking Horse
What is a miniature Saddlebred type of show pony developed by crossing Shetland and Hackney ponies called?
Americana
Name the five basic coat colors.
Black, brown, bay, chestnut, and white.
What breed of horse has a rocking chair canter?
Tennessee Walker
What breed of horse has a finely chiseled head and concave (dished) face?
Arabian
What breed of horse has trotters and pacers?
Standardbred
What breed of hose has a maximum adult height of 34 inches?
American Miniature Horse
What breed of horse has a refined head with small ears, a long neck with a considerable arch, and withers well above the height of the hips?
American Saddlebred
What breed of horse has a coat pattern, mottled skin, vertically stripped hooves, and a white sclera?
Appaloosa
What is the name given to horses that do not want to leave the barn?
Barn sour
Name the two breeds of horses developed by American Indians.
Chickasaw and Appaloosa
What name is given to the synthetic breed used for sulky racing, which originated in the 1960's, and bred from crosses between Standardbreds and Shetland, Hackney or Welsh ponies?
Trottingbred
What is the only breed of horse with a curly coat?
American Bashkir Curly
Name three breeds of horses and/or ponies which originated in the United Kingdom.
Cleveland Bay, Clydesdale, Connemara, Hackney, Shetland, Shire, Suffolk, Thoroughbred, and Welsh.
What cross produces a mule?
Jack (Assinus male) X Mare (Caballus female)
Which breed of draft horses is known as the breed of blacks and grays?
Percheron
What horse has a natural overstride?
Tennessee Walker
What is a horse called when it is a cross between two breeds?
Crossbred
What is a horse called if it is unregistered, undistinguished, or has unknown registry?
Grade
In the U.S., what is the most popular breed of horse?
Quarter Horse
What is the name for a group of individuals possessing specific characteristics not common to other horses?
A breed
What breed of horse has a characteristically level croup?
Arabian
What type of horse is most likely to wear toe clips?
Draft horse
What were the names of the two Arabian horses that were given to General Ulysses S. Grant?
Leopard and Linden Tree
What is the name of an Indonesian breed of pony native to the Sumba and Sumbawa islands and is named fter the country's principal export?
Sandalwood
What is the universal birthdate for many horse breed registries?
January 1
What color pattern is frequently confused with gray?
Roan
Bulge, ripple, and definition of muscling is desired in which general type of breeds?
Stock horse breeds
What city was the first home to the AQHA in 1940?
Forth Worth, Texas
Which breed of horses is the oldest breed and foundation of all light horse breeds?
Arabian
What city was the first home to the AQHA in 1940?
Fort Worth, Texas
Which breed of horse is the oldest breed and foundation of all light horse breeds?
Arabian
Besides the star, name four other face markings.
Stripe, blaze, snip, bald face, connected star and stripe, connected stripe and star, white muzzle, race, apron face, bonnet, and paper face
Which pony breed would you expect to be the smallest-Connemara, Welsh, or Shetland?
Shetland
What country does the Exmoor pony originate from?
England
Which breed did Wing Commander have the greatest influence on?
American Sattlebred
Which British draft horse does not have feathers?
Suffolk
Combined Immunodeficiency affects horses of what breed or breeding?
Arabian
What was the first association formed for an American breed of horse?
American Sattlebred
Combining Hackney and Shetland blood produced what breed of show pony?
Americana
Hambletonian 10 was an influential sire of what breed?
Standardbreds
Name the three gaits of the Tennessee Walking Horse.
Flat-foot walk, running walk, canter
What is another name for a ferral donkey?
Burro
If a horse has a mixture of white hair with its basic coat color and no change in the quantity of white hairs seen with age, the horse is called what color?
Roan
Name three of the four distinguished characteristics of an Appaloosa horse.
Spotted coat patterns, mottled skin, white sclera around the eye, vertically striped hooves
What term identifies the white marking that extends from the coronet to the middle of the cannon on the horse's leg?
Half-stocking or sock
Name the horse breed known as the breed of the blacks and grays.
Percheron
Define a blaze on the horse's face.
A wide white stripe on the horse's face the coves the full width of the nasal bones
In the horse world, what do the initials TWHBEA stand for?
Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders and Exhibitors Association
The Hanoverian originated in what country?
Germany
What is the name of the mark of white hair on the horse's forehead, located above a line running from eye to eye?
Star
What is the most distinctive characteristic of a Clydesdale horse in motion?
The white feathering on its legs or their long springy stride with extreme flexion of the knees and hocks.
Name one of the two offshoot breeds of the Paso horse.
Paso Fino; Peruvian Paso
What outstanding ability is the Connemara pony noted for?
Jumping
Name one pony breed that qualifies as a harness show pony.
Hackney, Welsh, Shetland
Name the country of origin of the Gotland horse.
Sweden, the island of Gotland
Name the breed association that only registers stock type horses of registered paints, quarter horses and thoroughbred horses.
American Paint Horse Association
Name three colors recognized by the the International Buckskin Horse Association.
Buckskin, grulla, dun, red dun
What is another name for a donkey?
Burro
Name the only draft horse breed thought to have an infusion of Arabian and Barb.
Percheron
What color term describes a pinto horse that is white with any color except black?
Skewbald
What is the major difference between the Hackney horse and the Hackney pony?
The size
Name the horse hair coat that has a traverse stripe across the horse's withers/shoulders.
Dun or buckskin
Where is the home of the American Quarter Horse Association currently?
Amarillo, Texas
Name the color term that describes a white and black pinto horse.
Piebald
What country is the Landais breed of pony native to?
France
Name one equine species related to the horse that is most commonly sterile.
Mule; hinny
Name the horse breed that is known for its "termino" gait.
Peruvian Paso
What part of a Tennessee Walking Horse's mane is braided in colorful ribbons?
The forelock and first strand of mane
How does today's Morgan horse compare to the original Justin Morgan in size and weight?
Justin Morgan weighed less and was shorter than today's Morgan
Name one equine breed that can carry a dominant gene for silver dappling.
Shetland pony and Australian pony
Name four breeds of horses that were involved in the development of the Tennessee Walking Horse.
Thoroughbred; Standardbred; Morgan; American Sattlebred
Name the two body types recognized by the American Miniature Horse.
Arabian type; Quarter Horse type
Describe a full-stocking.
White hair starts at the coronet and extends up to and including the horse's knee or up to the hock.
Name the pony breed that is a miniature Quarter Horse.
Quarter pony
What color is the dorsal stripe on a red dun horse?
Dark red
Name one physical characteristic and one quality of the Shetland pony.
Characteristic-size/hardiness.
Quality-good disposition/ popular children's mount
Name the horse breed that is often confused with the Appaloosa horse.
Rangerbred
Name the three basic hair coat colors that also provide the base for most of the other hair coat colors of the horse.
Bay, black, and chesnut
Why are Percherons known as the breed of the blacks and grays.
Because approximately half are black and half are gray.