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Walk: a four-beat flat-footed gait
War Bridle: restraining rope placed under nose,
over gums, and up over poll Warmblood: in practice, a horse which is a cross
between a hotblood breed or type and a coldblood breed or type. More
specifically, warmbloods are taken to mean warmblooded horses originating
from one of the continental European countries
Warming Up: galloping horse on way to post
Washy: horse breaking out in nervous sweat before
race, sometimes to the point it will be dripping from his belly
Wash Racks: area set aside for bathing of animals
Wax: colostrum coming from or coagulated on mare's
teats just prior to foaling
Waxing: showing evidence of wax
Wean: remove the foal from a mare so it can no
longer nurse
Weanling: a foal that has been separated from its
mother; usually 4–12 months of age
Weave/weaving:
an undesirable vice where the horse stands and rocks itself from side to
side, which in sever cases can result in strain to the front limbs
Web: measured width of the branch of a horseshoe
W.E.E.: Western equine encephalomyelitis
Well
Let Down: means that the hocks are close to the ground with the first
and second thigh being well muscled
Well Set:
indicates that the conformation is good and the junction between the neck
and head is correctly put together Well-Sprung
Ribs: a
horse with a nicely rounded ribcage allowing plenty of room for the heart
and lungs Western Banding: a
grooming technique using tiny rubber bands to make thirty or forty little
pony tails out of the mane
Western: referring to riding with Western tack and attire
Wethers: the uterus
Whiffletree (whippletree): a device, usually
wooden with metal rings or hooks, to which traces are attached; may also be
double to hold two single whiffletrees
Whip Training: training horse to respond to touch
of whip White Line: white
border between sole and wall of horse's Windsucking: a highly undesirable vice where
the horse grips a solid object between its teeth, tenses its neck muscles,
and swallows air. In sever cases a horse will learn to do this without
fastening on to anything, which can result in ingestion problems
Wide Web Shoe: horseshoe made of extra-wide stock
for added strength Wink:
opening and closing of the mare's vulva exposing the clitoris
Withers: the part of the horse's spine where the
neck joins the back. Wolf teeth. Small vestigial first pre-molar
Wood Chewing: a common vice that damages
facilities and can cause abnormal wear of teeth and possible complications
from wood splinters Working Gait:
in dressage, a gait that is regular and unconstrained, energetic but calm,
with even, elastic steps Worms:
internal parasites
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