RevolutionSF.com was tickled to give you an opportunity to win an autographed copy of Patrice Sarath's debut fantasy novel Gordath Wood. All you had to do was send us the answers to the following five questions designed to test your knowledge -- nay! your unbridled passion! -- for everything equine.
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Question 1: Associate the following horses with their famous owners:
Horses: Bucephalus, Babieca, Traveller, Scout.
Owners: General Robert E. Lee, El Cid, Tonto, Alexander the Great.
Bucephalus: Alexander the Great
Babieca El Cid
Traveller General Robert E. Lee
Scout Tonto.
Question 2: Name the three foundation sires of the Thoroughbred breed.
Byerley Turk (1680s), the Darley Arabian (1704), and the Godolphin Arabian (1729)
Question 3: What are the three races that make up the American Triple Crown?
The Kentucky Derby, The Preakness, The Belmont Stakes.
Question 4: Identify the following horse movies by their descriptions:
A. A scruffy cow horse becomes a champion showjumper: The Horse with the Flying Tail
B. An advertising exec buys a horse for his daughter and becomes embroiled in the horse show world The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
C. An American cowboy takes part in an endurance race across the Arabian desert Hidalgo
D. A shipwrecked kid bonds with a wild stallion and rides the horse to victory in an American match race Black Stallion
E. Horse and girl perform high-diving act in the Depression Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Question 5: Identify the following terms:
A. Coronet The ring of soft tissue just above the horny hoof that blends into the skin of the leg.
B. Hock The tarsus of the horse (hindlimb equivalent to the human ankle and heel), the large joint on the hind leg.
C. Cannon The area between the knee or hock and the fetlock joint, sometimes called the "shin" of the horse, though technically it is the
metacarpal III.
D. Poll the joint at the beginning of the horse's neck, immediately behind the ears, a slight depression at the joint where the atlas (C1) meets the occipital crest. Anatomically, the occipital crest itself is the "poll."
E. Stifle Corresponds to the knee of a human, consists of the articulation
between femur and tibia, as well as the articulation between patella and
femur.
F. Frog highly elastic wedge-shaped mass on the underside of the hoof, which normally makes contact with the ground every stride, supports both the locomotion and circulation of the horse.
G. Barrel main body area of the horse, enclosing the rib cage and internal organs
H. Chestnut a callosity on the inside of each leg
I. Croup topline of the horse's hindquarters, beginning at the hip, extending proximate to the sacral vertebrae and stopping at the dock of the tail
J. Dock the point where the tail connects to the rear of the horse.