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Horses

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

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Gestation

Animals; Horses

The period of time between conception and giving birth. Pregnancy, in a horse from 330 to 345 days.

Set, settle

Animals; Horses

To group a bunch of cattle into a quiet, compact herd. In cutting or team penning, a group of competitors that use the same group of cattle.

Bowed tendon

Animals; Horses

Inflamation or damage to a tendon usually caused by overstretching due to improper conditioning, overwork, or an accident.

Canter

Animals; Horses

The gait between walk and gallop; it consists of three beats followed by a moment of suspension, and has "leads" (in which legs on one side of the horse, front and back, reach farther forward than ...

Pace-walk

Animals; Horses

The pace-walk is a lateral four-beat gait in which the horse will pick up both the front and rear foot simultaneously, then moves the rear foot faster than the front foot and sets the rear foot down ...

Beat

Animals; Horses

A single step in a gait, involving one leg or two. For example, the walk is a 4-beat gait, with each beat stepped off by a single leg, one at a time, 1-2-3-4. The trot is a 2-beat gait, stepped off ...

Rigging

Animals; Horses

On a saddle, straps that connect the cinch and the saddle tree.

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