Horse Terms

• • Broodmare a female horse used for breeding.

  • Colt young male horse, usually up to three years of age

  • Equtation - horsemanship, the art of horseback riding

  • Filly -young male horse, usually up to three years of age

  • Foal - young horse of either sex below one year of age
• • Gelding - male horse castrated while young • Mare- mature female horse

  • Ridgling - stallion with only one testis or none in its scrotum

  • Stallion- mature male horse • Stud horse -a stallion used for breeding

  • Yeld mare or dry mare - mature female horse that has not produced any offspring during the breeding season