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POPULAR HORSE TERMS

• Stable - or barn, building where horses live
• Feed - grain (oats), hay and grass
• Currycomb & Brush - tools to clean a horse's skin
• Hoofpick- a tool to clean a horse's hoof
• Tack - equipment used for riding a horse
• Saddle - the leather seat you sit on
• Bridle - the thing on a horse's head when you ride
• Halter - the thing on a horse's head for leading or tying him
• Aids - signals given to a horse to move, stop, or turn, using your legs, hands, seat or voice.
• Figures - patterns that you ride the horse in, described below
• Diagonal - to ride from one corner to the opposite one
• Serpentine - to ride zigzags
• Reverse - to go in the opposite direction
• Gaits - the way a horse moves - walk, trot, canter
• Rear - to stand on the hind legs with front legs in the air.
• Buck - to jump when playing or trying to unseat a rider
• Bolt - to run away
• Conformation - the build of a horse
• Hands high - the way a horse is measured from ground to the withers (shoulders). A hand = 4 inches.
• Veterinarian - Vet, a person who cares for sick animals, a horse doctor.
• Blacksmith - a person who puts shoes on a horse, also called farrier.
• Diagonal - at a trot to post on the left or right front leg.
• Dressage - training of horse and rider.
• Mare - a female horse over 4 years.
• Filly - a female horse under 4 years.
• Stallion - a male horse over 4 years who can breed.
• Colt - a male horse under four years.
• Gelding - a fixed male horse.
• Foal - a baby horse of either sex.
• Pony - a small horse, when fully grown under 14.2 hh (English) or 14.0 hh (Western).