° 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 | C   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                           104 items found. Here is page 3 of 7. Go To Page    «   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   » Casting Coat   An old term for a horse changing his coat twice a year, in autumn and spring. The exact time depending upon the early or late approach of cold weather, and whether it carries a course or fine coat, is stabled or at grass, and whether it is an early or late foal. Links:        Contributors: Jan Casting Horse   (Throwing a horse to the ground mercifully not practised any more). Generally resorted to for the purpose of a veterinary operation but used for the clipping or shoeing of a vicious horse. Special hobbles are required, and are fitted to all four pasterns. Links:        Contributors: Jan Castors   (See Chestnuts) Links:        Contributors: Jan Castration   The operation to sterilise a male horse, i.e., gelding. Best performed in the spring or autumn to avoid infection of the wound by flies. Links:        Contributors: Jan Cat-hairs   The long untidy hairs which grow in a horse’s coat after the second clipping and which show early in the New Year. They used to be removed by singeing. Links:        Contributors: Jan Cat-Hammed   An old term describing a horse with weak hocks that stands back and away from his natural carriage. Links:        Contributors: Jan Catch-Hold   A horse is said to catch-hold when he pulls. Links:        Contributors: Jan Catch-up   To bring horses from a field. Links:        Contributors: Jan Catching (or Folding) a Whip   The act of lapping the thong of a team or tandem whip around the crop by a skilful turn of the coachman’s wrist. Links:        Contributors: Jan Catol   A two-wheel Norwegian dogcart, the two passengers sitting one behind the other. Links:        Contributors: Jan Cavalcade   A procession of horsemen or horsewomen. Links:        Contributors: Jan Cavalletti   An adjustable low wooden jump used in the schooling of horse or rider in jumping. Little used today because if the horse hit one it is liable to roll under the horse. Links:        Contributors: Jan Cavalry   All 'cavalry' were mounted men carrying some form of arme blanche, and usually pistols as well, whose main purpose to attack mounted, if necessary at the highest speed commensurate with maintaining a regular formation. From about 1660 in the British service Cavalry also carried some form of shoulder firearm, for use when dismounting for reconnaissance or any similar duties. Links:        Contributors: Jan Cavalry Twill   Twill is a development from a double twill used prior to 1914 for blue uniform breeches, and was first made in khaki in the West of England during the early part of the First World War for Cavalry Regiments. Links:        Contributors: Jan Cavesson   The noseband usually worn to make the bridle complete. It is the only noseband, (apart from the 'flash' noseband - cavesson portion), to which a standing martingale may be attached. A headcollar with a strengthened noseband, suitable for lungeing. 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.