Horses

Horses

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

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Strain

Animals; Horses

The action of a mare when trying to expel the foal, holdingher breath and contracting her abdominal muscles.

Parade horse

Animals; Horses

A horse trained to carry ornamented tack in parades.

Roan

Animals; Horses

A horse colour resulting from a mixture of white and black or white and red hairs all over the body.

Colour

Animals; Horses

Description or class in which body coat colour and pattern, not conformation is a deciding factor (e.g., Palomino, Dun Factor, etc.).

A performance horse is a horse that is in training or has trained to compete in an equine sport. The includes but not limited to; showing, eventing, jumping, racing, western work, endurance, dressage ...

Cross firing

Animals; Horses

A horse is cross firing when the inside rear foot hits first, and the inside front foot hits last when the horse is in the canter or lope.

Potomac fever

Animals; Horses

Disease caused by a rickettsia (Ehrlichia equi), with acute projectile diarrhea, laminitis, and usually death, its means of spread from animal to animal has not been determined.