Our annual Equine Quiz is back! Test your knowledge of all things horse-related.

1. What is the Hagerman Horse?

2. What is the leading cause of death in horses of almost all ages?

3. Which horse has more teeth, male or female?

4. What is skijoring?

5. What are “piebald” and “skewbald”?

6. What breed of horse is ridden at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria?

7. Where is a horse’s frog?

8. What book was written by Anna Sewell?

9. What is another name for bulldogging?

10. In rodeo, what event had a name change and has something that is not televised?

11. In what country did the Clydesdale breed originate?

12.In harness racing, what is the cart called?

13.What is a hippocampus?

14. What movie about horse racing starred a young Elizabeth Taylor?

15. What was the nickname of Secretariat?

16.What four-letter word means horse riding equipment?

17. What horse race has a variety of jumps?

18. What is the name of a horserace where horses have to carry a weight based on their past performances?

19. What are jodhpurs?

20. How is the height of a horse measured?

BONUS QUESTION: What sickness do cowboys get when they ride too many wild horses?

HORSE QUIZ ANSWERS

1. The Hagerman Horse is one of many 4 million- to 5 million-year-old fossilized animals from the Pliocene era found in what is now the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument in southern Idaho.

2. Colic is the leading cause of death for horses.

3. The male horse has 40 teeth, the female 36.

4. Skijoring is a timed sport where a horse rider pulls a person on snow skis (like a water-skier) through a series of obstacles.

5. These are two horse color patterns. Piebald is irregular patches of two colors, usually black and white. Skewbald is patches of white and another color that is not black .

6. The famous Vienna white horses are Lipizzaners.

7. The frog is a spongy triangular pad on the sole of the hoof.

8. Anna Sewell is the author of “Black Beauty.”

9. Bulldogging is a rodeo event more officially known as steer wrestling.

10. In rodeo, “calf roping” has been changed to “tie-down roping.” Television does not show the calf getting caught at the far end of the rope.

11. Clydesdales originated in Scotland.

12. The light two-wheeled cart in harness racing is a sulky.

13. A hippocampus is a seahorse.

14. Elizabeth Taylor’s 1944 classic movie is “National Velvet.”

15. Secretariat was also called Big Red.

16. Riding equipment is called tack.

17. The steeplechase is a cross-country race over hurdles, water, ditches and hedges.

18. Horses carry various weights in a Handicap Race.

19. Jodhpurs are riding pants (breeches) that are loose above the knee and close-fitting below the knee, with reinforced patches on the inside of the leg.

20. Horses are measured in hands from the withers to the ground. One hand is four inches. The tallest horse on record is a Shire named Sampson, who measured 21.2 hands (and weighed 3,360 pounds). The shortest full-grown horse on recored is Thumbelina at only 17.5 inches.

Bonus answer: Bronchitis.

(Sources include a 4-H handbook, 4-H bowls, “The Cowboy Encyclopedia,” “Encyclopedia of the Horse,” and the internet.)

SCORE

16 to 20: Top Hand

11 to 15: Seasoned Buckaroo

6 to 10: Weekend Wrangler

5 or less: Tenderfoot