I am working on a project and need horse terms that are confusing to beginner riders or nonhorse people...can anyone remember some terms that were confusing when you started working with horses?
♥2htoohorse♥
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Lots ...
Cinch
girth
lead rope
Halter
Hackamore
Post trot
lope
2 point
lead change (any leads at that matter)
withers
flank
"pick out the feet"
"tack up"
spooking
Farrier
rain rot
laminitis
the list goes on and on cause when i was 15 and started taking lessons, it seemed like another language. Especially cause i was a drowned over city girl at the time. Looking back, i have learned so much.
vienna
"trotting on the diagonal" - i had nooo idea what this meant lol
"giving the horse his head" - didn't understand this until i started riding
"does he have a coggins!?" horses can't be transfered without N/coggin papers
"half seat and 2 point" - i was a western rider for a year and i knew nothing about english jumping
"floating his teeth" - yeah i learned this when i was a begginer =)
most of the confusing terms came when i was actually riding the horse
everything else is pretty much common sense! =)
oh and i live in a very NON horsey family and when i bought my first pony everyone thought he was just a baby! haha but really he was 10 years old
for some reason every thinks a pony is a baby horse???
.
When I was little (like, 6 or 7) I would get "breeding" and "boarding" mixed up. I really wanted my own horse but had no barn of my own, so I asked the local trail riding barn how much breeding cost per month. I remember thinking it was odd that the owner had such a strange reaction to my question... :)
Non-horse people often confuse "pony" with "foal", thinking they are synonyms. Gender terms (colt, filly, mare, gelding, stallion) are confusing to non-horse people, too, it seems.
Azeri
As soon as I could read, I started to read everything I could get my pudgy little hands on, so I knew a lot of terminology before I actually started riding and got my first pony (age 8).
One of my horsecare books advised to put a "sheet" on your horse after bathing him, if it were cool out, so I went in the house and took one of my Mom's nice bedsheets from the linen closet and used it to cover him, after his bath. I tried to tie it on with baling string. Fortunately my Mom was really nice, and just laughed. She took a picture of him wearing her bedsheet.
Here's a list of terms that many beginners often find confusing or hard to remember:
Near v. off side
Inside v. outside aids
stifle
commissures
flank
croup
billets
bridle v. bit
Non-horses people:
Difference between a pony and young horse
Difference between a colt and stallion, filly and mare
Confusing Thoroughbred and "purebred"
Anonymous
Hiya
When i first started I was confused about:
- What a diagonal was?
- What a collective trot was?
- Different names of brushes - E.G Curry comb, dandy brush.
- Horse illnesses and diseases
- What lame meant?
- How often horses need to be shod?
- The tack - saddle and briddle
- What 'turn out' meant?
Erm cant think of anymore at the momment ill add some more in soon.....