How to Take Care of & Raise your Thoroughbred Horse

By Vince Stead

You can learn how to understand and train your Thoroughbred Horse to be good, and learn some general helpful advice on horse care and nice living conditions for your horse.  
 
1. The Characteristics of Thoroughbred Horse 
 
2. How to Saddle a Horse  
 
3. How to Muck out a Horse Corral 
 
4. How to Raise a Pony 
 
5. How a Bit, Harness and Reins Work 
 
6. How to Use a Hoof Pick 
 
7. What Kind of Shelter does your Horse Need? 
 
8. How to Use a Round Pen 
 
9. The Best Ways to Keep Flies of your Horse 
 
10. The Different Kinds of Horse Saddles 
 
11. How a Cow Horse Performs 
 
12. How Horseshoeing is Done 
 
13. How to Enter your Horse in Shows and Rodeos 
 
14. Nice Safe Toys for Horses to Play With 
 
15. How to Break and Train your Horse 
 
16. How to Clean a Horse Stall 
 
17. What to Do When your Horse is Going to Have a Baby 
 
18. What to Do if Your Horse Breaks it's Leg 
 
19. How to Trailer your Horse 
 
20. How to Make Sure Your Horse Does Not Colic on You 
 
21. What to Feed your Horse 
 
22. How to Prevent your Horse from going Barn Sour 
 
23. Mare, Gelding, or Stallion, and What is the Best Horse for your Needs? 
 
24. What to Do if your Horse Spooks at Something

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vince Stead
• Release date: Mar 5, 2012
• ISBN: 9781516327935

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How to Take Care of & Raise your Thoroughbred Horse

Copyright © 2012 by Vince Stead

All rights reserved.  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

ISBN:  978-1-329-26242-3

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1.  The Characteristics of Thoroughbred Horse

2.  How to Saddle a Horse

3.  How to Muck out a Horse Corral

4.  How to Raise a Pony

5.  How a Bit, Harness and Reins Work

6.  How to Use a Hoof Pick

7.  What Kind of Shelter does your Horse Need?

8.  How to Use a Round Pen

9.  The Best Ways to Keep Flies of your Horse

10.  The Different Kinds of Horse Saddles

11.  How a Cow Horse Performs

12.  How Horseshoeing is Done

13.  How to Enter your Horse in Shows and Rodeos

14.  Nice Safe Toys for Horses to Play With

15.  How to Break and Train your Horse

16.  How to Clean a Horse Stall

17.  What to Do When your Horse is Going to Have a Baby

18.  What to Do if Your Horse Breaks it's Leg

19.  How to Trailer your Horse

20.  How to Make Sure Your Horse Does Not Colic on You

21.  What to Feed your Horse

22.  How to Prevent your Horse from going Barn Sour

23.  Mare, Gelding, or Stallion, and What is the Best Horse for your Needs?

24.  What to Do if your Horse Spooks at Something

1.  The Characteristics of a Thoroughbred Horse

At most race courses around the world, you would find the Thoroughbred horse leading the pack.  They have been in vogue right from the seventeenth century and throughout Europe, and until now are very popular.  It was during the mid 17th century when the English bred the Thoroughbred horses, say experts, with the Arabian Stallions that were imported.  The Thoroughbred horse breed is bought and sold for usually large amounts of money.

Typically you will find that a Thoroughbred horse on average usually stands around sixteen hands in height.  You would find them in colors such as brown, bay, black, chestnut, gray, and even in roan.  The lower legs and the face of the Thoroughbred horse could have white markings as well, but very rarely would those markings be seen on the Thoroughbred horse’s body.  Once again, it all depends on the genes of the Thoroughbred horse.

It is only when a horse is witnessed being conceived live, would it then attain the registration and status of being a Thoroughbred horse.  One would have to watch the mating of a stallion and an English mare, no artificial insemination would be allowed to register the horse as a Thoroughbred Horse.

This was because in those early days, DNA testing wasn’t developed and hence the parentage of the Thoroughbred horse couldn’t be verified, and the practice still stands strong even today.  However, due to economical reasons, Arabian stallions are given only a certain number of English mares to mate with, hence live coverage is not possible always, say experts.

A Thoroughbred Horse should be athletic and ready to get into the competitive mode at the drop of a hat.  Take a close look at the Thoroughbred horse and you would notice its body to be lean and long.  The muscles are flat and the shoulders slope, the Thoroughbred horse stands on long legs as well, so don’t miss out on that feature.

The Thoroughbred horse has a long and refined head, with alert eyes and a coat which is very fine.  The coat is thin and the skin of the Thoroughbred horse is very sensitive.  The breed has ears which are not too long or short, and would always be curved.

The Thoroughbred horse’s hind quarters would always be highly developed and very muscular.  Every inch of its hind quarters would speak of power, it is as what the experts call the engine on the Thoroughbred horse, which helps it race and compete. 

The temperament of the Thoroughbred Horse is fiery and bold.  If you are a beginner at riding you may not want to start with a Thoroughbred horse.  The breed can be very aggressive and sometimes mean, but that is normal for them to behave that way, especially when the conditions around them might be tight and controlled.  The Thoroughbred horse is bold, adventurous, lively and highly intelligent as well.

2.  How to Saddle a Horse

Saddle making goes back thousands of years, but it has evolved