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