AVS 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sport Horse, Saddle Seat, Primitive Markings
24 Jan 2017
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Use of horses in the past: food: meat and milk. Horse industry: military: think about crusades, big and stocky horses; after wwii horses stopped being bred, pastimes/sports: fox hunting, agriculture/commercial: used to plow elds, still used in the amish country, recreation and sport: showing, jumping, transportation. Sport western pleasure, eventing, jumping, reining, barrel racing, cutting, team roping, saddle seat, presage. Recreation is the #1 use of horses. Points of the horse: throttle: preferred throat latch, brisket: chest. General breed information: cold blood: a draft breed; clydesdales, shires, suffolk, belgian, percheron, friesian, ha inger, etc, hot blood: a horse descendant of arabians; thoroughbreds, akhal-teke, barb, Thoroughbred, morgan, american saddlebred horse association 3,000 registered annually: morgan: versatile, disposition, substance, type: animation, stamina, vigor, american. Association: quarter horse: american breed selected for speed over the 1/4 mile, versatile, used to cross against other breeds, american quarter horse association 150,000 registered annually, paint: characteristic coat pattern-parent must be registered with apha, aqha, or.
