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99 Cards in this Set
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What breed of horse resides at the Vienna Spanish Riding School?
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Lipizzaner
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What breed cannot be taller than 34 inches at the withers to be registered?
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American Miniature Horse
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What is the color of an Albino horse?
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white
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Name 3 of the Draft breeds of horses.
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percheron
Belgian Clydesdale Shire Suffolk American cream |
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What color is a horse with white hairs mixed into a base coat?
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Roan
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What draft breed is only chestnut in color?
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Suffolk
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Name the only breed named after a specific person.
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Morgan, after Justin Morgan
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What color horse has a golden yellow body and white mane and tail?
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Palomino
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In terms of colors, what is a double-dilute bay called?
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Perlino
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List 5 of the most common leg markings.
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Coronet, pastern, ankle, half-stocking, white outside heels, white inside heels, ermine spotting or distal spots, sock.
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Name 2 breeds of the Native Horse.
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Chickasaw, American Indian Horse, Spanish Mustang, Spanish Barb, American Mustang, American Bashkir Curly, Rangerbred Horse
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What breed of horses are characterized by Leopard spot markings?
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Appaloosas
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Name the two types of patterns used to describe Paints.
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Tobiano and Overo
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What is the Tarpan?
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A wild horse of central Europe.
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What are two of the four major variations of the basic coat colors?
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Gray, Roan, Dilutions, Pinto-Paint
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In what country did the Connemara ponies originate?
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Ireland
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Name and describe the three types of roan colors.
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Red roan- bay with white hairs, Blue roan- black, brown, or liver chestnut with white hairs, Strawberry roan- chestnut with white hairs
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What breed is readily identified by a finely chiseled head and dished face, long arching neck, high tail carriage, and small build?
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Arabian
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What color is a horse with a yellowish or gold body, black mane and tail, usually black on the lower legs, but no dorsal stripes?
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Buckskin
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What breed is characterized by the flat foot walk, running walk, and rocking chair canter?
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Tennessee Walking Horse
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What is a miniature Saddlebred type of show pony developed by crossing Shetland and Hackney ponies called?
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Americana
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Name the five basic coat colors.
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Black, brown, bay, chestnut, and white.
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What breed of horse has a rocking chair canter?
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Tennessee Walker
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What breed of horse has a finely chiseled head and concave (dished) face?
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Arabian
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What breed of horse has trotters and pacers?
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Standardbred
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What breed of hose has a maximum adult height of 34 inches?
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American Miniature Horse
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What breed of horse has a refined head with small ears, a long neck with a considerable arch, and withers well above the height of the hips?
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American Saddlebred
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What breed of horse has a coat pattern, mottled skin, vertically stripped hooves, and a white sclera?
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Appaloosa
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What is the name given to horses that do not want to leave the barn?
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Barn sour
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Name the two breeds of horses developed by American Indians.
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Chickasaw and Appaloosa
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What name is given to the synthetic breed used for sulky racing, which originated in the 1960's, and bred from crosses between Standardbreds and Shetland, Hackney or Welsh ponies?
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Trottingbred
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What is the only breed of horse with a curly coat?
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American Bashkir Curly
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Name three breeds of horses and/or ponies which originated in the United Kingdom.
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Cleveland Bay, Clydesdale, Connemara, Hackney, Shetland, Shire, Suffolk, Thoroughbred, and Welsh.
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What cross produces a mule?
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Jack (Assinus male) X Mare (Caballus female)
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Which breed of draft horses is known as the breed of blacks and grays?
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Percheron
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What horse has a natural overstride?
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Tennessee Walker
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What is a horse called when it is a cross between two breeds?
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Crossbred
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What is a horse called if it is unregistered, undistinguished, or has unknown registry?
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Grade
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In the U.S., what is the most popular breed of horse?
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Quarter Horse
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What is the name for a group of individuals possessing specific characteristics not common to other horses?
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A breed
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What breed of horse has a characteristically level croup?
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Arabian
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What type of horse is most likely to wear toe clips?
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Draft horse
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What were the names of the two Arabian horses that were given to General Ulysses S. Grant?
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Leopard and Linden Tree
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What is the name of an Indonesian breed of pony native to the Sumba and Sumbawa islands and is named fter the country's principal export?
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Sandalwood
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What is the universal birthdate for many horse breed registries?
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January 1
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What color pattern is frequently confused with gray?
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Roan
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Bulge, ripple, and definition of muscling is desired in which general type of breeds?
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Stock horse breeds
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What city was the first home to the AQHA in 1940?
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Forth Worth, Texas
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Which breed of horses is the oldest breed and foundation of all light horse breeds?
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Arabian
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What city was the first home to the AQHA in 1940?
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Fort Worth, Texas
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Which breed of horse is the oldest breed and foundation of all light horse breeds?
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Arabian
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Besides the star, name four other face markings.
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Stripe, blaze, snip, bald face, connected star and stripe, connected stripe and star, white muzzle, race, apron face, bonnet, and paper face
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Which pony breed would you expect to be the smallest-Connemara, Welsh, or Shetland?
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Shetland
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What country does the Exmoor pony originate from?
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England
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Which breed did Wing Commander have the greatest influence on?
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American Sattlebred
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Which British draft horse does not have feathers?
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Suffolk
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Combined Immunodeficiency affects horses of what breed or breeding?
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Arabian
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What was the first association formed for an American breed of horse?
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American Sattlebred
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Combining Hackney and Shetland blood produced what breed of show pony?
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Americana
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Hambletonian 10 was an influential sire of what breed?
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Standardbreds
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Name the three gaits of the Tennessee Walking Horse.
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Flat-foot walk, running walk, canter
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What is another name for a ferral donkey?
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Burro
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If a horse has a mixture of white hair with its basic coat color and no change in the quantity of white hairs seen with age, the horse is called what color?
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Roan
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Name three of the four distinguished characteristics of an Appaloosa horse.
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Spotted coat patterns, mottled skin, white sclera around the eye, vertically striped hooves
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What term identifies the white marking that extends from the coronet to the middle of the cannon on the horse's leg?
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Half-stocking or sock
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Name the horse breed known as the breed of the blacks and grays.
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Percheron
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Define a blaze on the horse's face.
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A wide white stripe on the horse's face the coves the full width of the nasal bones
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In the horse world, what do the initials TWHBEA stand for?
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Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders and Exhibitors Association
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The Hanoverian originated in what country?
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Germany
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What is the name of the mark of white hair on the horse's forehead, located above a line running from eye to eye?
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Star
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What is the most distinctive characteristic of a Clydesdale horse in motion?
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The white feathering on its legs or their long springy stride with extreme flexion of the knees and hocks.
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Name one of the two offshoot breeds of the Paso horse.
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Paso Fino; Peruvian Paso
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What outstanding ability is the Connemara pony noted for?
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Jumping
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Name one pony breed that qualifies as a harness show pony.
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Hackney, Welsh, Shetland
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Name the country of origin of the Gotland horse.
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Sweden, the island of Gotland
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Name the breed association that only registers stock type horses of registered paints, quarter horses and thoroughbred horses.
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American Paint Horse Association
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Name three colors recognized by the the International Buckskin Horse Association.
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Buckskin, grulla, dun, red dun
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What is another name for a donkey?
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Burro
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Name the only draft horse breed thought to have an infusion of Arabian and Barb.
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Percheron
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What color term describes a pinto horse that is white with any color except black?
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Skewbald
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What is the major difference between the Hackney horse and the Hackney pony?
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The size
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Name the horse hair coat that has a traverse stripe across the horse's withers/shoulders.
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Dun or buckskin
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Where is the home of the American Quarter Horse Association currently?
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Amarillo, Texas
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Name the color term that describes a white and black pinto horse.
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Piebald
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What country is the Landais breed of pony native to?
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France
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Name one equine species related to the horse that is most commonly sterile.
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Mule; hinny
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Name the horse breed that is known for its "termino" gait.
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Peruvian Paso
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What part of a Tennessee Walking Horse's mane is braided in colorful ribbons?
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The forelock and first strand of mane
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How does today's Morgan horse compare to the original Justin Morgan in size and weight?
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Justin Morgan weighed less and was shorter than today's Morgan
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Name one equine breed that can carry a dominant gene for silver dappling.
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Shetland pony and Australian pony
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Name four breeds of horses that were involved in the development of the Tennessee Walking Horse.
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Thoroughbred; Standardbred; Morgan; American Sattlebred
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Name the two body types recognized by the American Miniature Horse.
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Arabian type; Quarter Horse type
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Describe a full-stocking.
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White hair starts at the coronet and extends up to and including the horse's knee or up to the hock.
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Name the pony breed that is a miniature Quarter Horse.
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Quarter pony
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What color is the dorsal stripe on a red dun horse?
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Dark red
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Name one physical characteristic and one quality of the Shetland pony.
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Characteristic-size/hardiness.
Quality-good disposition/ popular children's mount |
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Name the horse breed that is often confused with the Appaloosa horse.
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Rangerbred
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Name the three basic hair coat colors that also provide the base for most of the other hair coat colors of the horse.
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Bay, black, and chesnut
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Why are Percherons known as the breed of the blacks and grays.
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Because approximately half are black and half are gray.
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