° 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 6 of 7. Go To Page    «   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   » Collection   See Collect. Links:        Contributors: Jan Colostrum   The first milk made by a mare for her foal, very high in protein, which gives the new-born foal its immunity. Links:        Contributors: Jan Coloured   Coloured horses are either Piebald or skewbald. For showing a coloured horse must have a patch of a diffrent colour with a diameter of 6inchs above the knee and hock joint Links:        Contributors: Treacle Colt   An entire male horse up to 4 - 5 years old. Links:        Contributors: Jan Combined Training   A Dressage and Showjumping competition, possibly including a cross-country test, as in a three-day event. Links:        Contributors: Jan Common Digital Extensor Tendon   The function of the common digital extensor tendon is to extend the bones of the foot and lift the toe. Links:        Contributors: Jan Concussion   Stress caused to the joints by jar, shock or trauma. Most likely to affect the front legs, which bear 65% of the horse's weight. Links:        Contributors: Jan Conformation   The term used to describe a horse's physical characteristics. A major factor in soundness of the horse's legs. Poor conformation may predispose to sprains of joints, ligaments, and tendons bone injury and navicular disease. Links:        Contributors: Jan Conium Maculatum   See Hemlock. Links:        Contributors: Jan Contact   The amount of 'weight' between the rider's hands and the horse's mouth. Links:        Contributors: Jan Contracted Heels   That are too narrow. They should be wider than the toe. Mild causes are described as being straight and upright. Possible causes: - infection malnutrition, dietary deficiency, or old age. Links:        Contributors: Jan Corn   Bruise to the sole of the foot. Most common at the seat of corn, the angle formed by the wall and bars of the foot. Colloquial term for: - wheat/oats/barley. Links:        Contributors: Jan Coronary band   A thick convex part of the corium situated round the top of the foot between the upper part of the perioplic ring and the upper margin of the sensitive laminae. it extends around the foot from one bulb of the heel to the other and is thickest and roundest at the toe. Links:        Contributors: Lauren Ward Coronet   Tthe sensitive band around the top of the wall of the hoof, and it is from here that the hoof grows. Marking - if the white marking is so small that is hardly extends beyond the coronet, is called a white coronet. Links:        Contributors: Jan Counter Canter   A school movement in which the horse canters in a circle with the outside leg leading instead of the inside leg as usual. 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.