Jumping - The characteristic movement that a horse makes when
given a vaccine or has his feet trimmed.
Lameness - The condition of most riders after the first few rides each
year. This can be a chronic condition in weekend riders.
Lead Rope - A long apparatus used to administer rope burns. Also
used by excited horses to take a handler for a drag.
Longeing - A training method a horse uses on its owner with the
purpose of making the owner spin in circles. This renders the owner dizzy and light-headed, so that they feel ill and pass outand the
horse can go back to grazing.
Manure spreader - Horse traders
Mosquitoes – Radar-equipped blood sucking insects that typically
reach the size of small birds.
Mustang - The type of horse your husband would gladly trade your
favorite one for...preferably in a red convertible and V-8.
Overreaching - A descriptive term used to explain the condition
your credit cards are in by the end of show season.
Pinto - A colorful (usually green) coat pattern found on a freshly
washed and sparkling clean grey horse that was left unattended in
his stall for ten minutes.
Pony - The true size of the stallion that you bred your mare to via
transported semen-that was advertised as 15 hands tall.
Proud Flesh - The external reproductive organs flaunted by a stallion
when a horse of any gender is present. Often displayed in halter
classes.
Saddle Sore - The way the rider’s bottom feels the morning after the
weekend at the horse show.
Sleeping Sickness - A disease peculiar to mare owners while waiting
for
their mares to foal. Caused by nights of lost sleep, symptoms include
irritability, red baggy eyes and a zombie-like waking state. Can last
several weeks.
Splint - An apparatus that can be applied to various body parts of a
rider due to the parting of the ways of a hors