Q 01/05

What is the average gestation period for a horse?

A) 2 months

B) 5 months

C) 11 months

D) 22 months

Answer · why

C) 11 months

11 months, or about 340 days, is the average; since northern-hemisphere racehorses all turn a year older on 1 January, breeders aim for births as earl...

Q 02/05

Which of these is considered one of the basic coat colors for horses?

A) Palomino

B) Roan

C) Chestnut

D) Buckskin

Answer · why

C) Chestnut

Chestnut is a base color, red all over with no black hair, and it is recessive: two chestnut parents produce chestnut offspring every time.

Q 03/05

What is the primary natural defense mechanism of a horse when faced with danger?

A) Biting

B) Charging

C) Kicking

D) Flight

Answer · why

D) Flight

Flight comes first: a horse startles and runs, and only bites, kicks, strikes or rears when escape is impossible or its young are threatened.

Q 04/05

In which equestrian discipline do riders guide horses through a pattern of circles, spins and sliding stops?

A) Show Jumping

B) Reining

C) Dressage

D) Eventing

Answer · why

B) Reining

Reining grew out of ranch work, where a horse had to sprint, stop and turn sharply to handle cattle; the arena pattern of circles, spins and sliding s...

Q 05/05

What unit measures a horse's height from the ground to the withers?

A) Foot

B) Meter

C) Hand

D) Inch

Answer · why

C) Hand

Hand is four inches, and the figure after the point counts inches, not tenths: a horse of 15.2 hands stands 15 hands 2 inches, or 62 inches, at the wi...