Riding level 9

1 - When grooming a horse's mane, you can make fine plaits, called:
slugs
cherries
pellets
beads

2 - Which one of these bones is not found in a horse?
the metatarsus
the cervical vertebrae
the phalanx
the metacarpus
the clavicle

3 - What are the wedges?
a part of a tooth which falls out at 3 years
small bones located in the tarsus
the angles of a part
yellow fruit

4 - Healthy tendons are:
Thick, soft and warm
fine, dry and smooth

5 - In this list, what names designate reins?
the blinkers
the crupper
the drop noseband
the elastics
the martingale
the breastplate

6 - To what does the horse's hock correspond to in humans?
to the hip
to the knee
to nothing
to the ankle

7 - What does the verb "to paddock" mean?
for a horse rider, to warm up the horse in the paddock before going riding
for a horse, to refuse to go riding by "pushing" its horse rider to the door (so, the paddock)
to put down some harrow to improve the paddock's soil

8 - After being born, foals, in general:
is fed for a long time by its mother
rolls in the hay to dry itself
stands up in about one day
stands up in less than one hour

9 - What are the elements of the bridle?
the over head strap
the bit
the muzzle
the cheek strap
the brow band
the reins
the throat latch

10 - For the "Arab" trot, I am
stood up on the stirrups, legs straight slightly supported on the stirrups, knees bent to absorb the shocks
seated deeply in my saddle

1 - In horses, ingesting less than 10 grams of yew can cause death
true
false

2 - Who was Baucher?
The author of the saying "hands without feet, feet without hands"
The inventor of the eponymous bit
The author of "L'art equestre"
The author of the phrase "Ask often, be happy with little, reward a lot"

4 - Who created the famous saying "Calme, en avant et droit"?
Bartabas
François Nourissier
Baucher
General L'Hotte
Jérôme Garcin

7 - In hurdle jumping races and in cross races, the hurdles:
the red flag is on the right, the white one on the left
have a jumping over direction in hurdle racing
the red flag is on the left, the white one on the right
can be jumped over in both directions
have an imposed jumping over direction in hurdle racing, not in cross

10 - In cross races, what types of obstacles are there?
flight hurdles
directional hurdles
vertical hurdles
panoramic hurdles
botanic hurdles

After a work session, I have to
inspect its tendons
thoroughly check there is no harness wound
give it a lot of fresh water to drink
leave my horse dry in the wind
pick my horse's hooves
quickly go back into the warmth and change

3 - What is the average length of a galloping stride?
1m
3.50m
6m
1.5m

Merci a Aphrodite31 d'avoir corrigé une faute dans mes réponse :oeil:

j'ai mis les réponses dont je suis sure dans le topic vos questions sur les galops.

What is the average length of a galloping stride?

1.5m

3.50m

1m

6m

high school dressage, we come across the piaffe and the passage. Check the correct statements:

The passage is an intermediary gait between collected trotting and the piaffe

The passage is a sort of walking on the spot

For both, this is a symetric, jumped gait in two goes

The piaffe is a sort of trotting on the spot

The passage is slower than the piaffe

Et de deux :p

Voici d'autres réponses :

5 - There was a particularly fast horse that won a lot of races. When it died, it was found that it had an additional vertebra.
· false
· true

7 - A mare can, just like males, sometimes have two additional teeth called "fangs":
· false, this is impossible
· false, males and females have the same number of teeth
· true, we then say she is "fanged"
· true, we then say she is "sterile"

Je tiens à corriger cette réponse ( je viens de passer le galop )

When grooming a horse's mane, you can make fine plaits, called:
beads
pellets
slugs
cherries

qu'est ce que c'est des Ridding ?

des galops je pense