Horses

Horses

Any of various equine mammals, or even certain extinct forms related ancestrally to the modern horse.

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Fender

Animals; Horses

Part of the Western saddle that protects a rider's leg from the rigging. The wide leather strap, on the western saddle, between the saddle seat and the stirrup on which the riders leg rests.

Weaving

Animals; Horses

A stable vice in which the horse continually rocks from side to side, shifting his weight from one front leg to the other, causing the neck and head to sway as well.

Vaccination

Animals; Horses

Injection, into the body, of killed or attenuated microorganisms to develop resistance of an infectious disease.

Green-broke

Animals; Horses

An inexperienced horse or rider, relatively speaking. In hunter classes, the horse can be any age and is rated according to awards won in past performances.

Moon blindness

Animals; Horses

Periodic opthalmia, or uveitis (inflammation of internal eye that comes and goes).

String out

Animals; Horses

To move without engaging the hindquarters, so hind end looks "strung out" from the forehand.

Cribbing

Animals; Horses

A stable vice in which the horse latches onto a horizontal object (e.g the manger) with the teeth, tenses the neck and swallows; synonym is "crib-biting