Equine Quiz (answers)

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Just for fun, remember!

1. Eriskay pony is closely related to Highland pony (and both great allrounders).
2. Salanders and malanders are both equine skin conditions.
3. Foundation stallions - four really - Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian, Godolphin Arabian, and the Curwen Bay Barb. The last one contributed 5.6% of TB genes compared to the Byerley Turk's 4.8% but is often ignored.
4. Bitless bridle - three pressure points - nose, chin groove and poll.
5. Bucephalus (ox head) belonged to Alexander the Great.
6. The olecranon process is the point of the horse's elbow.
7. The muscle which pulls the foreleg forward or the neck downwards and the head back is the Brachiocephalicus (it's why you ought to 'give' the rein to let your horse jump).
8. Number of teeth - 42 (12 molars top, 12 molars bottom, 6 incisors top, 6 incisors bottom, 2 wolf teeth, and 4 canines) - not all horses have this many.
9. Eclipse was foaled in a year of an eclipse, and was chestnut with one white sock on his right hind.
10. Sequence of legs is as for left canter so RH, LH and RF together, LF.

I made this up for fun...so no stressing please...and correct me if I've got any hideously wrong.
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6/10 - could try harder in class!

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Wow, that's good. I expect the TB stallions one will be contrary to what most people are told...as traditionally there are 'three foundation stallions'
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That was one I didn't have a clue on, I guessed 1 for some unknown reason!
The only answer I was 100% sure of was the last one so others were lucky guesses!
 
A paltry and pathetic 4 I think.

And yes, I was caught out by the foudation stallions! (Though would still have only been a feeble five
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(eta - can I go back and try again now I know the answers?!)
 
am bereft........feel as though some part of my soul has died....

i got number 9 wrong..........................
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Is it just me, or does everyone else want salanders and malanders to be amphibians or chameleons....something colourful in a tank, too?
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that'll be just you.......................
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Damn it, I will tell my horse dentist off next time I see him!

8/10 for me then.

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Remember it was for a normal adult mouth...in reality you get all sorts of weirdness...my TB mare had endless teeth when she was 4 1/2 to 5 as she grew all her adult incisors behind her baby incisors...so would have had...er....around 48 teeth!
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I think that salanders and malanders would make great tropical animals . Where on earth did you get these questions from?!

The book I was talking about is the Byerley Turk by Jeremy James, set during the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, and is very good. A good mix between history and horsiness!

I want another quiz!!! S? Please?
 
Well by your calculations I was 10 for 10, but by mine 9/10. Why? Because according Captain Alec S. Campbell, there were 36 oriental stallions that the TB can trace back to...
 
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Well by your calculations I was 10 for 10, but by mine 9/10. Why? Because according Captain Alec S. Campbell, there were 36 oriental stallions that the TB can trace back to...

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Well, yes, there were more than 200 Arabians, Barbs and Turks imported between about 1660 and 1760.....and it depends on your definition of 'foundation' too...
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I think that salanders and malanders would make great tropical animals . Where on earth did you get these questions from?!

The book I was talking about is the Byerley Turk by Jeremy James, set during the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, and is very good. A good mix between history and horsiness!

I want another quiz!!! S? Please?

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I made the quiz up...no beatings please
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That book sounds like an entertaining read...he did other books about travelling round places with his two horses....I think he did the Isle of Mann...
Maybe I'll do another quiz next weekend, if you'd like?
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True! Was merely pointing out what one chap says in a book of his I have. I mean there is no doubting the 4 main pogenitors of the TB, but apparently apart from these four, there are these further 32 that can still be seen in todays pedigrees. I know my pedigrees pretty well (used to paid to do soley that), but I don't know them THAT far back, so I could not hand on heart say that THIS IS TRUE - lol! But I do find it interesting. I certainly get your point in the initial question, as the ancestry of the TB is all too often attributed to just 3 orientals.
 
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