Stable & Hoof · The reference
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- The partnership
What do you do with a horse when it passes away?
What you may do with a horse after death depends on which UK nation you are in, and burial is not permitted everywhere.
- The partnership
What do you say when someone loses a horse?
Use the horse's name, say one specific thing you remember about them, and resist the urge to look for a silver lining.
- Choosing your horse
What is a bay horse?
A reddish-brown body with black mane, tail, lower legs and ear rims. The black is the interesting part.
- Choosing your horse
What is a blagdon horse?
Blagdon is the British name for the pattern known elsewhere as sabino: irregular splashes of white, often roaned at the edges.
- Choosing your horse
What is a chestnut horse?
A red horse with no black hair anywhere on it, from pale gold to dark liver, with a mane and tail the same colour as the body or paler.
- Choosing your horse
What is a coloured horse?
"Coloured" is the British word for a horse marked in white and one other colour, and it has a registry definition behind it.
- The daily round
What is a gelding?
A gelding is a castrated male horse: the calmer, more even-tempered choice many owners prefer for everyday riding.
- Choosing your horse
What is a grey horse?
A horse born bay, black or chestnut that whitens over the years because of a single dominant gene. In Britain, a white-looking horse is a grey.
- Choosing your horse
What is a palomino horse?
A gold coat with a white or pale cream mane and tail. It's a colour, not a breed, made by one copy of the cream gene on a chestnut horse.
- Choosing your horse
What is a roan horse?
White hairs mixed through a coloured body, with the head, lower legs, mane and tail left solid. Unlike grey, it doesn't whiten with age.
- Choosing your horse
What is a wall-eyed horse?
A wall-eyed horse is one with an excessively pale eye, or with two eyes of different colours.
- The partnership
What is dressage?
Dressage is a discipline where a horse and rider perform a set sequence of precise movements, judged on accuracy and harmony, not speed.
- The partnership
What is showjumping?
Showjumping is a discipline where horse and rider jump a course of fences as cleanly and quickly as possible.
- Gifts for horse owners
What to get a horse owner who has everything
The short answer to what to get a horse owner who has everything: stop buying for the horse, and buy for the owner. They already own every brush, rug, head collar and hoof pick going: most of it bought twice. W…
- Choosing your horse
Why do some horses have blue eyes?
Blue eyes in horses come from the genes that place pigment, and there is more than one route to them.
- The partnership
Will a single horse get lonely?
Yes, and it is not only a question of kindness: appropriate company is one of the five welfare needs an owner must meet in law.