ew

• stage of maturity at harvest

  dependent on plants
• Foal

  • Newborn
  • Prior to puberty or sexual maturity
  • Young horse, of either sex, below one year old
• Filly


  Young female horse usually up to 3 years old
• Mare


  Matured female horse used for breeding
• Maiden


  Mare that has never been bred
• Colt


  Young male horse usually up to 3 years old
• Gelding


  Male horse castrated before puberty
• Stag


  Male horse castrated after puberty
• Stallion


  Sexually matured male horse
• Stud


  Matured male horse used for breeding
• Foaling


  Act of giving birth for horses
• Groups of horses


  • Band
  • Harem
  • Mob
  • Team
  • Troop
  • Herd
  • Harras/haras
  • Rag
  • String
• Types of horse relationships

  • Full
  • Half
  • Blood
  • 3/4
  • 7/8
• Action


  The way a horse moves
• At grass


  Horse that is pastured year round and one source of nutrition is grass
• Barefoot


  Unshod horse
• Box to


  To lead a horse up the ramp and into a horse box or trailer
• Break


  The act of training or gentling a horse
• Broken-in


  A horse that can be ridden and handled
• Dressage


  Style of riding where horse and rider perform movements with time and precision
• Equestrianism


  Also called horsemanship, the art of handling horses, particularly the art of riding, but also applicable to driving and other disciplines
• Farrier


  Horse shoer
• Nearside


  The left-hand side of a horse
• Offside


  The right-hand side of a horse
• Turn out


  To put a horse out to pasture
• Xenophon was a Greek man known as 'The Father of Classical Equitation' (430-ca 335 B.C.). He wrote the first fully preserved manual on the care of the riding horse-"The Art of Horsemanship"