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Drs Foster and Smith - Riding terms Category: Health and Medicine > Equine Veterinary Terms Date & country: 27/01/2014, USA Words: 122

Cross-firing
Condition in which the hind foot strikes the opposite front leg or hoof.

Crow Hopping
When a horse hops or leaps repeatedly in the air, with all four feet off the ground at the same time, he is said to be crow hopping.

Combined Training
Equestrian competition held over one or three days and including the disciplines of dressage, cross country, and show jumping. Also known as Eventing.

Collected
Controlled gait

Collection
Where the rider, by means of carefully balanced driving and restraining aids, causes the horse's frame to become compacted and the horse light and supple in the hand. The baseline is shortened, the croup is lowered, the shoulder is raised and the head is held on the vertical.

Class
A grouping of horses in a show involving horses with riders or shown at hand that perform according to the class specifications as described in the rulebook of that show.

Capriole
One of the Airs Above the Ground in which the horse leaps with all four legs and strikes out with the hind legs in mid-leap.

Cavelletti
Adjustable low wooden jumps used in the schooling of horse and rider.

Chip/Chip-In
When a horse puts in a short, additional stride in front of a fence.

Canter
Three-beated gait of the horse in which one hind leg strides first (the leading leg), followed by the opposite diagonal pair and finally the opposite foreleg. Called the lope in Western riding.

Buck
A leap in the air with the head lowered and the back arched.

Blistering
Application of a caustic agent, or blister, to the leg. Formerly and, occasionally, still used in the treatment of a number of conditions, such as spavin, ringbone, and bowed tendon. Thought to encourage internal healing in some cases.

Bosal
A braided noseband used in western equitation. Western bitless bridle.

Breaking, or Breaking-In
The early education of the young horse, where it is taught the skills it will need for its future life as a riding or driving horse.

Broken-In/Broke to Ride
Horse that has been accustomed to the tack and the rider and has begun initial training. (Also called greenbroke.)

Bascule
Term used to describe the arc a horse makes as it jumps a fence.

Airs Above the Ground
High school movements performed by highly trained horses, where either the front legs or all four legs are off the ground. Airs above the ground include the levade and the capriole.

Amble
The slower form of the lateral pacing gait. (See Pacer)

Back
To step a horse backward.

Barrel Racing
A timed event in Western riding where horse and rider complete a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels.

Above the Bit
Where the horse evades the rider's aids by raising the head above the level of the rider's hands. This reduces the amount of control the rider has over the horse.

Action
The movement of the horse's legs.