Standardbred Horse Racing

To tell (or ask) your horse to trot in German is:

"Gehen Sie zu einem Trab."

Translation is: Go into a trot.

Some how I seriously doubt that any horse would understand that much German, let alone the formal (Sie) conjugation of the verb!

Even if you did say such a thing to it, horsey people are intimate enough with their horses that they would use the informal Du form!

Just use the stirrups and reins

When you are riding a horse at a trot you can either sit the trot (something that require a lot of practice to be able to do well), or do a rising trot where you post (go up and down in the saddle) in time with the horse's outside leg.

Good ones do a mile in 2 minutes or less.

By telling your horse to canter...but your horse needs to know how to canter and needs lots of practise, and he also needs to know the command "canter". after he/she gets what you want, practise going from a trot to a canter. soon enough your horse will be transitioning smoothly! good luck!

Horses don't "skip" but they trot which would be the closest thing to a skip. Trotting is sort of like a skip, it is a speed faster than the walk or a little faster than a jog if you have one. When you trot, the horse moves back and forth quickly, which makes you post. Posting is a way of riding to help the horse's back. You move up amd down in thecar saddle along with the beat of the gait.

To add to the above post a 'skip' can refer to a old bucket or pan used to catch debris that have been picked out of a horses hooves, this term is used in Europe and the UK mostly.

ET or handicap racing is when the weight of a horse is adjusted according to their age. There is also a sex allowance for fillies.

Handicapping is simple. It is when horses of all abilties race together. The best horses with more chance of winning will carry more weight and the horses with less chance of winning will carry less. This is set so that they all have an even chance of winning.

The equivalent of a trot (in Western Riding) is called the jog. The differences are only verbal.

If you are riding a "fast horse trot" it could be a lengthened or an extended trot.

That is referring to the actual length of stride a horse is making at that trot.

"Collection" is the exact opposite, basically, of a fast trot.

A length used in Horse Racing is the length of 1 horse. Say a horse won by one length then the horse that came second would be in line with the end of the winning horse, if it won by two lengths then another horse could fit into the winning gap. A length is 1/5th of a second as horse racing is measured in 5th's of a second.

most of the time that it is a gaited horse. if it's too pacey then you need to ride it out of it and get it timed up.

Answer: In horse racing some horses need "cover" because they don't produce their best efforts when leading from the front. so the jockey keeps the horse behind a couple of other runners, which provide this "cover", until the final stages of the race when the horse is encouraged to do his best... I guess this applies also to trotting races.

collected canter, or in western terms, a lope Andalusiangirl

Possibly dont post as high

One thing that Clinton Anderson does is just trot them until they learn to conserve their energy and trot slower. He actually uses this for a slow lope, but it works at the trot too. you could also do transitions. Trot a few strides (less than 5) then walk for a bit, then trot, then walk, then trot, then walk. This gets the horse so that he doesn't build up sped because he knows that he will have to go to the walk very soon. You could also try troting ina round pen. The smaller enclosure will kind of shut the horse down. Horses are more inclined to go fast when in an open area, and the opposite is true. You could also use poles. If you place them shorter than your horses normal stride, she will have to adjust himself to take shorter strides and therefore trot slower.

Usually different heights because each horse is has differnt heights ( can be up until 80cm-1m)

most standard breds can go a mile in 1:51:4 which is a minute 51 seconds and 4/4 seconds

no the purse is determinded on the race when you bet you get some money fromo the purse if the horse u bet on wins

Actually, the Purse has nothing to do with the amount of money wagered in a horse race. The Handle is the total amount wagered on that race and after the track takes some out and the taxes are removed then the rest is divied up among the winning tickets. These are called Pools and there is one for each style/type of bet (Win Pool, Place Pool, Show Pool, Exacta Pool, Trifecta Pool, Pick 3 Pool, etc).

A Piaffe is when the horse is in a highly collected trot on the spot. Likewise, a Passage is when the horse performs this elevated trot while moving forwards.

A pacer horse is another name for the Standerbred horses they pull carts and trot at swift paces around a racetrack made of limestone.

The lope also known as the canter is a 3 beat movement that is slightly faster then the trot and slower then the gallop, although all horse have different canters (some less easy to ride then others), I would try to get the fastest trot you can with out braking inot the canter and try to grip with your legs as much as you can to where it looks as if you're bum is glued to the saddle. This will stregthen you're legs and help you be more ready for the lope. as try to lot of lunges and other exercises not on the horse to strengthen you're legs. Also try counting this might calm you done when you're loping, 123,123,123,123... this can also help you focus. good luck loping!

The pleasure trot is a medium working trot. The horse should be accepting of the bit with a good head-set, a free swinging shoulder and engaged hocks. Most of all, it should have a pleasing, ground-covering cadence.

Some horses where shoes at the age of 1 year to correct themselves, but generally a horse will be shoed for the first time between the ages of 3 and 4.

Most horses never get shoed. Shoes are put on horses if they are to do certain types of jobs or they have a foot defect. A healthy trail horse may never see shoes.

No, it's [rein-wise] the space between medium trot and collected trot

Standard-bred horses average better than 30 miles per hour. In the U.S. they regularly finish the standard one-mile course in under two minutes. Thoroughbreds can finish a mile course in about 96 seconds. That's an average speed of about 37 mph.

skip is not a horse gait. these are all the gaits of a horse: walk, trot, canter, gallop. there are some neat five-gaited horses, but i cannot remember what their fifth gait is called. but i know it is not a skip