And, they have graciously offered to give away five TryPaks to BTB readers!To win a TryPak, leave a comment on my blog or on my facebook page with your favorite horse term or saying and a way that I can contact you if you win. I'll contact winners next week...
Here are two of mine::
- Witches' knots, the mane's tendency to form ropes.
- When a racehorse has leg issues (e.g., osselots, bumps, etc.) it's referred to as jewelry.
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Bomb-proof: a horse that doesn't spook or scare (but is not actually impervious to bombs)
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I like hearing people refer to a horse with white stockings as having lots of "chrome".
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Awesome contest! I love the term "Lady Broke" meaning a horse is spoiled rotten.
ReplyDeleteApple Picker - the fork used to clean a stall LOL
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"O for a horse with wings." - Shakespeare
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I've always found it odd that starting a horse under saddle is called "breaking". I don't want my horse broken, I want him to be fully useable :)
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"Green" is by far my favorite term.
ReplyDeleteMe: "I was riding this wicked green horse the other day..."
Non-horse person: "I didn't think they came in that color!"
(true story)
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PS: I never received the Redmond Rock Salt from the giveaway/contest quite a few months ago...
ReplyDeleteHi Liz, I also missed one of the Onestep winners -- the person contacted me, and I'm very glad you contacted me. Send your address (again, sorry) to me at behindthebit at gmail dot com and I'll see one gets out to you. Arrgh.
DeleteDQ - no, does not refer to Dairy Queen!
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Liz - some of them do, at least in part, hence the need for the Absorbine stain remover & whitener!
ReplyDeleteA saying I once heard was most people's treasure glitters and shines in the light but mine runs free in the day and neighs in the night
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Easy keeper, which does not apply to my horse that gets fat on grass 24/7 so has to be in a dry lot during the day.
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"Sway backs" Backstory, I once mucked at this barn where there were some in/outs on the top of a slow hill. When I would take the wheel barrel up to the stall doors, way in the BACK; The doors always SWUNG within the rope which tied them BACK. So these makeshift quarters I thought were the SWAYBACKS, NOT the ancient horses that lived there! Hah!
ReplyDeleteCMS, of course! (Chestnut Mare Syndrome) ...and another favorite is "My therapist lives in a barn."
ReplyDelete"Inside leg to outside rein." The moment that you *finally* understand what this means is pretty cool. I practically hear it in my sleep.
ReplyDeletePonytude, for that Napoleon complex they have.
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I may be the only person to use this...
ReplyDeleteYou know when a horse is lying down, but sitting up with their front legs tucked under? I call that the 'bread loaf' position.
Honestly, they just look like bread loaves!
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Windpuffs - small, soft (usually) swellings on the fetlock.
ReplyDeleteThat one amuses me greatly.
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This is fun! Gross: if you don't clean a horse's sheath it gets "beans." Not gross: My mare is kind of hot (6 year old OTTB) and my trainer calls her "fizzy," which suits her to a T.
ReplyDeleteI ride dressage. However, always thought the term "daisy cutter" sounded like it would be a pretty movement (lol).
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Smegma.....really, who on earth came up with that.
ReplyDeleteIt's what they call it in humans too!
DeleteHony--for a horse between 14.1 and 14.3 :) -- hersheyskissing@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI can't remember where I heard it, and I don't think it's all too widespread, but I love the term "cocktail horse" for a foxhunter that you can do a hunt on while sipping your cocktail.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the fun spelling of Trakehner... and very fun to say too.
And this probably doesn't count as a horse term... but my favourite racehorse name ever is "Onetimeatbandcamp."
"well, it's a long way from his heart" -an expression I learned while a groom on the racetrack as a way to sum up any injury/cut/bump or scrape a horse might get, especially during a race, that was minor and/or recoverable from and that was not career ending.
ReplyDeleteone of my favorite horse proverbs: "The master's eye makes the horse fat."
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well someone else already mentioned bombproof, but the definition of that term I was given as a kid was: Lame all around, deaf, and blind. ;-)
ReplyDelete1. "lipstick"-when a horse is correctly on the bit, and there's just a bit of white foam coating the lips.
ReplyDelete2. Our barn manager has said my horse has a "daisy-cutter trot."
I actually have a literary or grammatical question: is the term "throw" properly used with sires or dams? As in, "that mare throws big foals," or "that stallion often throws gray foals." Which is right?
-Haley
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I'm personally fond of the description 'a narky mare' but I think my partiality to that one has to do with my experiences wih some pretty narky mares myself ;)
ReplyDeleteI've also had non-horsey friends remark that the expression 'legging up' is an odd one... but a lot of these expressions are just so familiar you don't even stop to think about them :P
Appytude, I have a 20 yr old App who this fits perfectly
ReplyDeleteI personally like "appy-tude" to describe those colorful in more ways than one Appaloosas.
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grey pony needs showsheen ;D
Easy Keeper- a horse that requires little feed or hay but is hard to keep the weight off of.
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I like the "angel's thumbprint". This is an indentation on the side of the neck said to have originated with Arabian horses. In order to choose the best horses in the herd, the horses traveled across the desert and were not allowed to drink. At the end of the day, they were turned loose to drink and the masters whistled for them. The horses that left the water and returned to their masters promptly were kept as the very best and marked with the "thumbprint of an angel. My chestnut mare has one. mjnoah@utmb.edu
ReplyDeleteI like the "angel's thumbprint". This is an indentation on the side of the horse's neck and said to have originated with Arabian horses.
ReplyDeleteIn order to choose the best horses in the herd, the horses traveled across the desert were not allowed to drink water all day. After they were turned out to drink, the masters whistled for them. The horses that left the water and returned to their masters promptly were kept as the very best and marked with the "thumbprint of an angel. My chestnut mare has one. mjnoah@utmb.edu
"If you want a stable friendship, get a horse..."
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☆☆☆grey horse needs showsheen products☆☆☆
Not having been in the horse world all that long, I don't know too many of these! However, I did recently learn that "chestnuts" are thought to be the remnants of vestigial toes. How cool! Also, they are also called "night eyes". I wonder why?
ReplyDelete'Gypsy gold does not chink nor glitter. It shines in the sun and neighs in dark' and
ReplyDelete'Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then be a unicorn'
Cheers :)
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