When you started riding what were some horse terms you didn't know?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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"

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

collection

diagonal

lead

colic

thrush

lame

two point

three point

ralease over jump

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

frame.

diagonal.

rollback.

lame.

founder.

i didn't know there wasn't such a thing as a white horse, and even if they were white they were called gray's.

i didn't understand why there were show names and barn names.

getting too deep

leaving long

falling in

tack

Answer 6

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.....

Answer 7

I was confused about:

-diagonal

-martin gale

-lead

-dressage

-thrush

-lame

-colic

Hope I helped! I know this stuff now!

~With Love

Answer 8

diagonals

Menage

stud billets ( I thought it was something to do with breeding !)

I always mixed fetlocks and forelocks up

straw and hay

hay and haylage

Answer 9

some terms about horses i didn't know were

barrel,frog,forelock- parts of a horses

dressage-type of riding

girth,stirrups,horn(only on western saddle),

i also didn't know what a halter was

but i know all these things now hope i helped some

Answer 10

"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???

Answer 11

Anything that isn't in plain english will confuse someone. Just simplify every thing. I live with non horse people and the simpler the better.

Answer 12

diagonal

withers

posting

cinch

types of brushes, and what order to use them in

Answer 13

when you kiss to a horse it makes it go and if make a nois with your cheek it will go and  if you say trott is will trott

Answer 14

like when i first started i didnt no what the following things were

- strapping

-colic

-laminitus

-forelock(i called it a fringe)

-chestnut (i called all these horses ginger)

i think thats about it...

Answer 15

Well maybe like hands high/hh, ummmmmmmm.....its so hard to think all the way back lol. Breeds? Colors? Dressage? Difference between Hunter and Jumper? 2 point. Gelding vs. stallion.

Hope this helped!

:)

Answer 16

The most confusing for me was medical terms.

-Colic

-Founder

-Lame

Answer 17

Collection, I had no idea what that meant.

Answer 18

diagonals

floating the teeth

turn out

collect your horse

2 point

filly

yearling

Answer 19

collective trot i still dont know what that is i dont know al ot but i have been around horses my hole life coggins what does that mean and how can you tell if they have please someone tell me i swear im a blond no offise and what leads you are on and so on like that

Answer 20

nahhhhhhhh

Answer 21

-diagonal

-counter canter

-extended

-collected

-transitions

-cantering on the right leg

-martin gale

-lead

-dressage

-thrush

-how to tack up

-lame

-colic