Questions:
1. When riding in a group, keep your distance. What is the general rule of thumb?
2. Despite the disappearance of knights in war, many of the rears, leaps and kicks demonstrated by this horse is thought to be adapted, refined and displayed today by these horses at this school.
3. In order to qualify for entry in the breeding register as a Palomino, stallions and mares should have one parent in the register, and the other must be from one of three breeds. Can you name them?
4. As the two oldest documented American breeds, which one was formed first - the "Morgan Horse and Register" or "The American Quarter Horse Association?"
5. "Tying Up" this is when severe and persistent muscular cramping which happens during or immediately after exercise or some kind of excitement. How do you know if it is severe enough to call the veterinarian?
6. The foal's first attempts to stand generally is within ______ to ______ minutes after birth.
7. Concerning the coat color and genetics - of these, which is dominant over all others, bay, chestnut, gray or brown?
8. A horse's stomach is comparatively small to the amount he must take in and is not suited for one large meal, but rather a virtual continuous ingestion and process. What is a horse's approximate gallon capacity?
9. How can you provide a better worm and colic control for your horse, besides periodic deworming?
10. In the movie, "LadyHawke," what breed of horse served as Captain Navarre's noble steed, "Goliath?"
11. There are seven types of wild horses that escaped the bonds of civilization, apart from the Przewalski, Few exist through man's deprivations. Can you name the seven types that fend for themselves Ð are truly wild?
12. What continent is the only one in which scientists have been unable to locate fossilized evidence of past equine forms?
13. When these Native Americans first saw the horse in 1500's, they were astonished. They called these new animals, "magic dogs." Can you guess the tribe?
14. Horses seem to have a strong homing ability. Many times if "given their head," they will find their way home by themselves. Do you think studies indicate this instinct to be real or more a tall-imagined tale?
15. A horse has a 360-degree field of view. While holding his head level, he has only two small blind spots. Where are they?
Horse Trivia Answers:
1. A horses length apart, but if that is hard to figure, stay far enough back so that you can see the heels of the horse in front of you.
2. The Spanish School in Vienna and the Cadre Nair in Fontainbleau, where Lipizzaners are the only breed used.
3. (a) Quarter horse (b) Arabian (c) Thoroughbred
4. "The Morgan Horse and Register" was first published in 1894, "The American Quarter Horse Association" not until 1940-41.
5. If the urine stays dark on two different urinations.
6. 30 to 60.
7. Gray is dominant to all other colors. The order of dominance for other colors is bay, brown, black and chestnut.
8. 5 Gallons.
9. By adding a twice-weekly pickup of manure from his pasture.
10. The spectacular Friesian, who is always dark and was one of Europe's first pure horse breeds, but also one of the first warmbloods in the world.
11. (a) North American Mustangs, (b) Horses of Candos' Island, (c) European Tarpans, (d) Ponies of Britian, (e) Iceland & Scandinavia, (f) Australian Brumbies, (g) All White Marsh Horses of the French Camargue.
12. Australia.
13. The Commanche.
14. It's true. It is believed horses may be using a combination of smells and landmarks (a mental map) to perform this navigation.
15. A few meters directly behind his rump and a few centimeters directly in front of his nose.
