Riding Level 9

[AngelMare]

1 - What is the average length of a galloping stride?

3.50m


2 - To what does the horse's hock correspond to in humans?

to the ankle


3 - After a work session, I have to

·inspect its tendons
·thoroughly check there is no harness wound
·pick my horse's hooves



4 - In high school dressage, we come across the piaffe and the passage.
Check the correct statements:

·The passage is an intermediary gait between collected trotting and the piaffe
·The piaffe is a sort of trotting on the spot
·For both, this is a symetric, jumped gait in two goes


5 - In horses, ingesting less than 10 grams of yew can cause death

true


6 - After being born, foals, in general:

·is fed for a long time by its mother
·stands up in less than one hour



7 - Which one of these bones is not found in a horse?

the clavicle


8 - What are the wedges?

·the angles of a part
·a part of a tooth which falls out at 3 years


9 - There was a particularly fast horse that won a lot of races.
When it died, it was found that it had an additional vertebra.

true



10 - Who was Baucher?

·The author of the saying "hands without feet, feet without hands"
·The inventor of the eponymous bit


11 - Who created the famous saying "Calme, en avant et droit"?

General L'Hotte


12 - In hurdle jumping races and in cross races, the hurdles:

·the red flag is on the right, the white one on the left
·have a jumping over direction in hurdle racing



13 - In cross races, what types of obstacles are there?

·panoramic hurdles
·directional hurdles
·flight hurdles



14 - A mare can, just like males, sometimes have two additional teeth called "fangs":

true, we then say she is "fanged"


15 - When grooming a horse's mane, you can make fine plaits, called:

slugs


16 - Healthy tendons are:

fine, dry and smooth


17 - What are the elements of the bridle? (to be checked...)


·the throat latch
·the bit
·the cheek strap
·the reins



18 - In this list, what names designate reins?

·the martingale
·the elastics(?)



19 - What does the verb "to paddock" mean?

for a horse, to refuse to go riding by "pushing" its horse rider to the door (so, the paddock)


20 - For the "Arab" trot, I am

stood up on the stirrups, legs straight

[HorsegirlDylan]

14 - A mare can, just like males, sometimes have two additional teeth called "fangs":

true, we then say she is "fanged"
Edit:they are actually called sterile

[AngelMare]

It seems to me that she would be called "fanged", but would be sterile.

[HorsegirlDylan]

yes,a bit like that.

[HorsegirlDylan]

1 - Which one of these bones is not found in a horse?

the metatarsus
the cervical vertebrae
the phalanx
the clavicle
the metacarpus