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Pony Club revision quiz

Seventeen questions in four rounds to test what you know. Each one is marked as you go, with the reason and the source behind the answer.

17 questions, four rounds

The dressage arena

  1. How big is the small dressage arena?
  2. Going clockwise from A in a 20 x 40 arena, what are the outside letters?
  3. Which letter marks the centre of the arena?
  4. How far in from the corner are the corner letters (K, F, H and M)?
  5. In a 20 x 60 arena, how far apart are the letters down a long side, after the first 6 metres?
A dark bay horse in collected trot in an outdoor sand dressage arena with low white boards, seen from behind at a distance.
Every letter has its place, down to the metre.

Colours and genetics

  1. Two chestnut parents, neither grey nor cream. What colour can the foal be?
  2. What does the agouti gene do?
  3. A palomino is a chestnut with what?
  4. One copy of cream on a bay gives which colour?
  5. A foal turns grey. What must be true of its parents?
A buckskin horse with a golden tan body and black mane, tail and lower legs, and no stripe along its back, standing in a dry paddock.
A buckskin: which genes make this coat?

Care: rugs and weight

  1. Below what temperature does the BHS say many horses stop staying comfortable without a rug?
  2. What fill does the BHS call a medium weight rug?
  3. Which of these is a sign a horse is too hot under its rug?
  4. How often does British Equestrian suggest checking your horse's weight?
Four horse rugs on a rail: a navy turnout rug, a burgundy quilted stable rug, a grey fleece cooler and a white mesh fly rug.
Which of these would you reach for tonight?

Breeding and the end of life

  1. How long is a mare's average pregnancy?
  2. When a horse dies, how long do you have to return its passport?
  3. In a 2020 study of 25,693 horses seen by five UK equine practices, what was the median longevity?

Pick an answer to each question. Your score and the reason behind each answer appear here as you go.

Got a horse worth framing? Turn a photo of them into a portrait, or put their name on a name print.

A small grey pony at a paddock gate with a child-sized saddle resting on the rail.

About this quiz

This is a revision quiz we wrote ourselves. It is not made by, linked to or approved by The Pony Club, and it doesn't use their test papers or manuals. It is for anyone revising horse knowledge, whether for a badge, a test or the fun of it.

Every answer is a fact we read in a named source, such as the FEI's rules, the British Horse Society, GOV.UK or a vet genetics lab. The source sits next to each answer when it is marked, so you can read more.

A small grey pony at a paddock gate with a child-sized saddle resting on the rail.
Revision you can do at the kitchen table.

Using it with a group

For a branch rally or a yard quiz night, read the questions out and let people write their answers down. Then pick the answers on the page to mark them, and read out the reasons. Your answers sit in the page address, so you can copy the link and send a finished quiz to someone else.

Want more on a round? Our dressage arena letters tool prints the arena to scale. The foal colour calculator works through the colour genes, and the rug calculator shows the BHS rugging guidance step by step.

Written by Craig Fearn, Stable & Hoof. Last updated .

Questions, answered

Is this an official Pony Club quiz?
No. We wrote it ourselves and it is not linked to The Pony Club. The answers come from the sources named beside them.
Is my score saved?
No. Nothing is saved on our side. Your answers live in the page address, so you can bookmark or share them.