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HORSE EXERCISE [16 records]

Record 1 2018-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

The hot walker's number one task is to cool out the horse and he or she must be waiting for the horse when it returns from the track. The exercise rider will stop the horse in the shed row or stall and remove the tack... and the hot walker will... then walk the horse to cool it out from the jog, gallop or breeze it had. Hot walkers walk the horse inside in the barn or in an outside oval walking ring and will stop every lap or so to offer the horse water.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Employé qui s'occupe du conditionnement des chevaux après la course.

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

The training of a horse with a lunge.

OBS

to longe or to lunge : To guide or exercise(a horse) by means of a longe.

OBS

In Canada, "lunge" only is used; in the United States, "longe" is more common but "lunge" is also used.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Moyen d'exercer son cheval pour qu'il se délie les muscles avant de le manœuvrer ou de le seller; il sera alors plus réceptif aux commandements et plus facile à contrôler.

OBS

La longe est utilisée pour exercer le cheval en terrain découvert. L'exercice commence avec une longe courte, au trot, pour se terminer avec une longe complète aux trois allures. Le cheval est exercé dans les deux directions, au pas, au trot et au galop.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline
  • Dance
DEF

… an acrobatic move in which the performer alternates balancing the torso between either arm while swinging the [straddled] legs beneath in continuous circles.

OBS

It is a fundamental b-boying power move, and in gymnastics, it may be performed on a pommel horse or during the floor exercise.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline
  • Danse

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

Walking a horse after a race or an exercise until its body signs return to about normal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Technique qui consiste pour un palefrenier à faire marcher lentement le cheval après une course ou un exercice d'entraînement jusqu'à ce que sa circulation sanguine retrouve son rythme normal.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

A constriction of the hoof.

OBS

Often it is the result of a horse being confined to the stable without sufficient exercise. Only a veterinarian or daily exercise can cure it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Anomalie du pied qui se caractérise par un rapprochement des talons et une régression du volume de la fourchette.

Spanish

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Record 6 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

... the reader should take note of the differentiation between the pesade and the levade made by Podhajsky in The Complete Training of Horse and Rider :"Up to the nineteenth century the riding masters knew only the pesade in which the horse lifts his forehand off the ground with lowered hocks, his body forming an angle of forty-five degrees to the ground. Beginning with the twentieth century an exercise was introduced in which the height of the body from the ground was reduced and the body held at an angle of thirty degrees to the ground. This was called the levade...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Air de haute-école, dans lequel le cheval élève l'avant-main, puis se dresse sur les postérieurs, qui restent pliés sous lui.

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline
DEF

A gymnastic exercise in which the athlete leaps over a form that was originally intended to mimic a horse

CONT

He was also the first male gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of ten in an Olympic competition, a feat he accomplished in the long horse vault.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline
CONT

Le saut de cheval. Cet exercice consiste à sauter à l'aide d'un tremplin par dessus une table de saut (depuis 2001, le cheval a été remplacé par une table de saut, plus large et plus «sécurisante»), en effectuant un mouvement acrobatique. D'une hauteur de 1,25 mètre, la table de saut est située au bout d'une piste d'élan de 25 mètres. Le saut de cheval est un exercice commun avec la Gymnastique artistique masculine.

CONT

Il est également le premier gymnaste à avoir obtenu la note parfaite de dix sur dix dans une compétition olympique, un exploit qu'il accomplit au saut de cheval.

Spanish

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Record 8 2005-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
DEF

An exercise to rebalance the horse and lighten his forehand bringing him to attention.

CONT

Half-halt may be useful in preventing the horse from acquiring undesirable speed. Half-halts can be successfully used ... in front of fences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
DEF

Action nette et très brève de la main, par flexion verticale du poignet et qui a pour but l'élévation de l'avant main et, donc, l'engagement des postérieurs sous la masse.

CONT

Le demi-arrêt [...] permet de réduire l'étendue d'une allure sans en modifier la cadence. Les demi-arrêts peuvent être utilisés devant les obstacles.

OBS

Suite à l'action de tout le corps du cavalier afin de provoquer un bref instant de rassemblement, de «suspension» ou «d'arrêt (parade)», pour augmenter / reprendre l'attention et l'équilibre du cheval.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
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Record 9 2005-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Body Movements (Sports)
CONT

Bend the body to the left. Bend the body to the right.

OBS

Bending is a term to describe the range of motion and resistance in the muscles of the horse. Bending your horse is an easy exercise with huge benefits that you begin to see almost instantly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Mouvements du corps (Sports)

Spanish

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Record 10 2004-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Anatomy
  • Horse Husbandry
CONT

Lameness as a result of disease in the carpal region of the horse is often clinically evident based on physical examination and type of exercise for which the horse is used. Effusion of the antebrachiocarpal joint and/or middle carpal joint and pain upon flexion of the carpus are the two most common clinical signs found that indicate pain and lameness due to carpal disease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anatomie animale
  • Élevage des chevaux

Spanish

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Record 11 2004-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
CONT

Boarding Options. Several types of service options can be offered, such as pasture, stall, or deluxe board. With pasture board, the horse is kept on pasture with a source of fresh water. Generally, you would also provide a shelter or protected area for the horse(this is required by law in many places). Additional feed is usually provided by the horse owner. With stall board, you would keep the horse in a stall and would clean the stall and feed the horse. Ideally, the horse would be put on pasture or in an exercise area every day. Deluxe board might include additional services, such as grooming, basic veterinary care, and exercising.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux

Spanish

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Record 12 2004-07-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Body Movements (Sports)
CONT

Bend at the poll (the atlas joint that connects the last vertebrae to the skull).

OBS

Bending is a term to describe the range of motion and resistance in the muscles of the horse. Bending your horse is an easy exercise with huge benefits that you begin to see almost instantly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Mouvements du corps (Sports)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Movimientos del cuerpo (Deportes)
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Record 13 2004-07-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

A disease in which horses become stiff in their limbs while performing exercise, or soon afterwards. The stiffness and soreness may be so severe that the horse cannot move. The creatinine-phosphokinase and other relevant serum enzyme levels are very high. The disability is likely to be a permanent characteristic of an individual horse.

CONT

The all-embracing terms "tying-up" or "set-fast" are used to denote horses which become stiff and sore in their limbs, showing cramped and slow movement without actual lameness.

Key term(s)
  • set-fast syndrome

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
CONT

Le syndrome du cheval «noué». Les termes «noué» ou «collé» sont employés pour parler des chevaux qui deviennent raides et ont les membres douloureux; leurs mouvements sont lents et étriqués, sans véritable boiterie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
  • Cría de ganado caballar
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
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Record 14 2002-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
DEF

A person riding a race horse to exercise it.

OBS

A term used in horse racing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Personne qui monte un cheval de course pour le mettre en train.

OBS

Terme appartenant aux courses de chevaux.

Spanish

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Record 15 2001-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
  • Hospital Furniture
CONT

Aids for exercise and sports including : aids for horse riding, e. g. adapted saddles.

OBS

ISO code: 30 09.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
  • Mobilier d'hôpital
CONT

Aides pour faire des exercices et du sport comprenant : les aides pour équitation, par exemple, selles adaptées.

OBS

Code ISO : 30 09.

Spanish

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Record 16 1996-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

noisy respiration in a horse caused by paralysis of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve and atrophy of the muscles of the arytenoid cartilage on that side, occurring only during exercise and constituting an unsoundness in the horse.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
CONT

Le cornage, chez le cheval, est le plus fréquemment causé par la paralysie du nerf récurrent [...] qui dilate la glotte.

OBS

Vice rédhibitoire affectant la respiration d'un cheval.

OBS

Les six vices rédhibitoires qui s'appliquent à l'achat de chevaux de sang sont la boiterie, l'immobilité, la fluxion périodique des yeux, le tic (crib biting), l'emphysème pulmonaire et le cornage chronique. On désigne l'ensemble par le sigle B.I.F.T.E.C. qui est composé des lettres initiales de chacun des vices en question.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
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