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  1. 5. Provider of a horse mani/pedi?
  2. 7. This state, with the third most horses in the country, has one horse for every ten citizens.
  3. 8. The only surviving branch of the horse family is the genus _____, which includes zebras, donkeys, and asses.
  4. 10. A horse's natural shock absorber
  5. 12. Humans have just three muscles in these, while horses have 10.
  6. 13. In 2002, due to the rugged terrain and lack of fuel, horses were used by US Special Forces in
  7. 15. Wild horses today are not truly wild, as they descended from domesticated horses. Technically, they are ____.
  8. 18. A strong muscle called the cardiac sphincter prevents horses from doing this.
  9. 19. Trot, for one
  10. 20. Father horse
  11. 21. Horses are distantly related to these animals, sharing a mobile upper lip and an odd number of toes on each foot.
  12. 24. This breed of horse has fewer bones than other horses, which might contribute to its short back and high tail.
  13. 25. These teeth are no longer necessary and often removed.
  14. 26. Pay to breed
  15. 28. Founded in 1965, this breed registry was created to advocate for the colored horses excluded from the AQHA.
  16. 30. This part accounts for about 1% of a horse's body weight.
  17. 33. The oldest horse on record lived to 62.
  18. 34. This ancient ancestor to the horse appeared about 52 million years ago, and was about the size of a fox.
  19. 35. Horse pack
  20. 36. A horse’s species is Equus ____.
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  1. 1. The Akhal-Teke horse descends from this older now extinct breed.
  2. 2. Prehistoric remains show that wild horses died out in America during the end of the
  3. 3. This horse from Mongolia was declared extinct in the 1960s then reintroduced to wild in 1992.
  4. 4. Horses have been _____ for over 5000 years.
  5. 6. Fermented mare’s milk in Kazakstan
  6. 9. This country has the most horses in the world.
  7. 11. In the wild, herds of horses are led by a dominant
  8. 14. 1860s postal service
  9. 15. As of July 1, 2021, it is illegal to trim a horse’s whiskers at this organization's competitions.
  10. 16. A young girl horse.
  11. 17. Soft tissue that covers a foal’s hooves in utero, colloquially.
  12. 20. A horse can stand and rest by locking their hind leg at this joint
  13. 22. A lateral four-beat gait that’s characteristic of the American Saddlebred.
  14. 23. Inventor of horsepower as a unit of measuring energy.
  15. 27. The Mongol _____ is the world's longest horse race at over 1000km long. 1000km.
  16. 29. The world's largest equine breed registry.
  17. 31. Norwegian ______ Horses
  18. 32. Horses have some of the largest of these, of all land mammals.
  19. 33. No longer on-track