° Mustang ° Prepare Haynet ° Plait a Mane ° Land per Horse ° Prepare Haynet New Rider Newsletter your E-mail Address Subscribe Un-Subscribe Main Site Search     Copyright © New Rider 2003   All material on the Newrider.com website is copyrighted. Express written permission must be obtained to use anything you find here.	Location:   Dictionary | listing.html | A   Equine Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z                           91 items found. Here is page 2 of 7. Go To Page    «   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   » Advanced Horse   A horse that has reached a high standard of training. Links:        Contributors: Jan Aerobic   Describes bacteria/muscle etc needing oxygen to flourish. Links:        Contributors: Jan After-Birth   The membrane consisting of placenta, amnion, and umbilical cord expelled from the uterus after a foal has been born. Links:        Contributors: Jan Afterbirth   Placenta, surrounding the foal in the uterus, which transfers nutrients between mare and foal. Excreted with the foal at birth. Links:        Contributors: Jan Against the Clock   Tterm used in show jumping competitions in which the final round is timed. The winner is the competitor who has the least number of penalty points combined with the fastest time over the course. Links:        Contributors: Jan Age   The length of life of a horse varies according to usage, care and attention. Light and regular work and good food have a large bearing on age. The greatest recorded age is that of 'Old Billy,' who originally worked as a farm horse and was later purchased by the Manchester and Irwell Navigation Co., as a barge horse and died aged 62. Links:        Contributors: Jan Age (of the horse)   Computed from January 1 of the year in which the horse is foaled. Links:        Contributors: Jan Aged   A horse over six years old. This term is used in a general sense to describe a fully developed horse/pony. Links:        Contributors: Jan Agisters (or Marksmen)   The person employed by the Verderers in the New Forest to collect marking fees in respect of all ponies and other animals turned out in the Forest. (Also, see Verderers). Links:        Contributors: Jan AI   (See Artificial Insemination.) Links:        Contributors: Jan Aid/Aids   Natural aids, hands, seat, weight, legs, and voice are signals from the rider to the horse telling the horse what to do. Artificial aids are whips, spurs noseband, draw reins and martingales. Links:        Contributors: Jan Aids   Signals through which the rider communicates with the horse. The hands, though the reins, direct and control the forehand; the lower part of the legs, collect, control and motivate the hindquarters through application by the girth. There are two types: Natural aids - hands, legs, seat/weight and voice. Artificial aids - whip and spurs. Links:        Contributors: Jan Aintree   Race course near Liverpool where in 1839 the first Grand National Steeplechase (then known as The Grand Liverpool Steeplechase), distance 4 miles 856 yards, was run. Links:        Contributors: Jan Airs - Classical   The aim is to develop and perfect the natural movements of the horse. Exercises on the grounds required in dressage tests, ranging from walk, trot, and canter on a single track, through lateral work, when the horse moves sideways as well as forwards. Links:        Contributors: Jan Airs above the ground   Are high school movements in which the horse jumps into the air, i.e. ballotade, croupage, courbette, capriole, and levade. They were developed from the natural leaps of the hors. Levade and pesade with the horse rising on bent hindlegs (rearing) and the forelegs tucked onto his chest. Capriole where the horse leaps in the air and simultaneously kicks with his hind legs. When not kicking out the horse is performing a Ballotade. In the courbette, the horse leaps several times on his hind legs without the forelegs touching the ground. A single leap on the hind legs is called a croupage. Links:        Contributors: Jan Go To Page    «   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   » A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z                           Find a word Back to Dictionary home page. Suggest or Add to an Entry     Your Name Your Email This will not be displayed but could be useful if we need to contact you about a definition. Word Definition   Add your definition here as clearly as you can. If you know some useful web pages that help explain the word further please make a note of the web addresses in the definition.	Purchase Order Software Easy to use Purchase Order Software for simple but powerful management of your purchasing.     Bramley Cottage Holiday cottage for let in South Devon. Dunsters Equine Free classifieds adverts site for horses for sale, property and equipment.