Riding Level 9

Here, you can get the answers of the Riding Level 9

(Sorry for stretching the page! )
1 - What is the average length of a galloping stride?

3.50m


2 - To what does the horse's hock correspond to in humans?

to the ankle ?


3 - After a work session, I have to

inspect its tendons
thoroughly check there is no harness wound
pick my horse's hooves



4 - In 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 piaffe is a sort of trotting on the spot
For both, this is a symetric, jumped gait in two goes


5 - In horses, ingesting less than 10 grams of yew can cause death

true


6 - After being born, foals, in general:

is fed for a long time by its mother
stands up in less than one hour



7 - Which one of these bones is not found in a horse?

the clavicle


8 - What are the wedges?

the angles of a part
a part of a tooth which falls out at 3 years


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

true



10 - Who was Baucher?

The author of the saying "hands without feet, feet without hands"
The inventor of the eponymous bit


11 - Who created the famous saying "Calme, en avant et droit"?

General L'Hotte


12 - 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



13 - In cross races, what types of obstacles are there?

panoramic hurdles
directional hurdles
flight hurdles



14 - A mare can, just like males, sometimes have two additional teeth called "fangs":

true, we then say she is "fanged"


15 - When grooming a horse's mane, you can make fine plaits, called:

slugs


16 - Healthy tendons are:

fine, dry and smooth


17 - What are the elements of the bridle? (to be checked...)


the throat latch
the bit
the cheek strap
the reins



18 - In this list, what names designate reins?

the martingale
the elastics



19 - What does the verb "to paddock" mean?

for a horse, to refuse to go riding by "pushing" its horse rider to the door (so, the paddock)


20 - For the "Arab" trot, I am

stood up on the stirrups, legs straight