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47 Cards in this Set
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What is the domestic horse? |
Equus caballus |
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What is the domestic donkey? |
Equus asinus |
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What is the wild horse of Mongolia? |
prezwalski horse |
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How many horses are there in the U.S.? |
9 million |
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How many horses are there in New York? |
27,000 |
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How much money does the horse industry generate annually in the US? |
15 billion |
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How much money does the horse industry generate annually in the US? |
500 million |
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What do horses eat? |
fibrous feed |
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What is a stallion? |
male |
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What is a Mare? |
female |
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What is a gelding? |
a castrate |
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What is a foal? |
young newborn |
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What is a filly? |
young female |
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What is a colt? |
young male |
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What is a weanling? |
wean at 4 mos |
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What is a mule? |
a jack and a mare |
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What is a hinny? |
a stallion and a jenny |
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What must a pony measure less than? |
14.2 hands |
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How many inches is a hand? |
4 in |
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What is the whithers? |
where the neck reaches the back |
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How many inches must a miniature horse be smaller than? |
34 in |
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What are light breeds used for? |
riding, racing
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What are draft breeds used for? |
work |
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Where did the Arabian originate? |
North Africa |
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What is the size of an Arabian? |
small, 800-1000 lbs, 15 hands |
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What are the features of an Arabian's head? |
small, fine boned, dished face, wide set eyes |
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What color is an arabian? |
solid color |
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What is bay? |
brown body with black points |
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what is chestnut? |
reddish brown with same color mane and tail |
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What is grey? |
black skin with white hair |
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What was the thoroughbred developed from? |
the Arabian |
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What was the thoroughbred developed for? |
speed at intermediate distances |
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What is a thoroughbred used for? |
jumping, fox hunt, polo, combined training |
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What is a thoroughbred's conformation? |
tall horse with long lean build |
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What was the American Quarter Horse developed from? |
thoroughbred |
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Which breed has the largest number of any registry today? |
american quarter horse |
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What was the american quarter horse bred for? |
a working cow horse, short distance speed |
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What size is the american quarter horse? |
small, 15 hands, with a stocky heavy build, 1100 lbs |
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Where was the Morgan developed? |
the US |
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What was the Morgan developed for? |
all purpose ability - riding, driving, pleasure, and race |
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What blood does the Morgan have a lot of? |
Arabian |
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What color patterns does the Appaloosa have? |
blanket, roan, leopard |
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What was the standardbred developed from? |
thoroughbred and morgan |
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What is the standardbred used for? |
harness racing |
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What color is the Belgian? |
sorrel, light brown body and flaxen mane and tail |
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What color is the clydesdale? |
bay or brown, white face markings, white feathers on lower legs |
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What color is a percheron? |
born black and turn grey |
