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How much do you know about horse stuff??? (Quiz)?
Here is a list of historical horses....Do you know who they belonged too or why they are famous?
1. Black Jack
2. Blackie
3.Cincinnati
4. Comanche
5. Rienzi
6. Traveler
7. Black Nell
8. The Denton Mare
Next set are about cowboy's equipment
9. What are the long leather coverings that go over the stirrups that prevent brush from getting in the stirrup?
10. What is the average length the braided leather riata that the vaqueros used?
11. Where was the "double rig" saddle(2 cinch western saddle) invented?
12. What was the name of the saddle issued by the US Calvary in the 1860's?
1. Black Jack;United States Army Horse During his service as a caparisoned (riderless horse), Blackjack took part in the funerals of Presidents Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and that of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
2. Blackie;Born in Kansas, Blackie was brought to California to become a cutting horse at rodeos. After his rodeo career he was sold to the Army and became a cavalry horse, accompanying the Army horses stabled at the Presidio of San Francisco as they rode to Yosemite National Park each spring to patrol the park. He was retired when he was 12 years old.
On October 1, 1938, Blackie made history by swimming across the San Francisco Bay from the Marin County side to San Francisco's Crissy Field. He swam it in 23 minutes and 15 seconds, winning a $1,000 bet for his then owner, Shorty Roberts.
3.Cincinnati;Cincinnati was General Ulysses S. Grant's most famous horse during the American Civil War. He was the son of Lexington, the fastest four-mile thoroughbred in the United States (time 7:19.75 minutes) and of the greatest sires. Cincinnati was also the grandson of the great Boston, who sired Lexington.
4. Comanche;Comanche was a mixed Mustang/Morgan horse who survived General George Armstrong Custer's detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.He was bought by the U.S. Army in 1868 in St. Louis, Missouri and sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Captain Myles Keogh of the 7th Cavalry liked the 15 hand bay gelding and bought him for his own personal mount, to be ridden only in battle. In 1868, while fighting the Comanche in Kansas, the horse was wounded in the hindquarters by an arrow, but continued to let Keogh fight from his back. Thus the horse was named “Comanche” to honor his bravery. Comanche was wounded many more times, always exhibiting the same toughness.
5. Rienzi; General Sheridan's charger was foaled at or near Grand Rapids, Michigan, of the Black Hawk stock, and was brought into the Federal army by an officer of the Second Michigan Cavalry. He was presented to Sheridan, then colonel of the regiment, by the officers, in the spring of 1862, while the regiment was stationed at Rienzi, Mississippi; the horse was nearly three years old. He was over seventeen hands in height, powerfully built, with a deep chest, strong shoulders, a broad forehead, a clear eye and of great intelligence. In his prime he was one of the strongest horses Sheridan ever knew, very active, and one of the fastest walkers in the Federal army.
6. Traveler;Traveller, originally named Jeff Davis, was born near the Blue Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia), raised by Andrew Johnston. An American Saddlebred, he was of the Gray Eagle stock, and, as a colt, took the first prize at the Lewisburg, Virginia, fairs in 1859 and 1860. As an adult gelding, he was a sturdy horse, 16 hands high and 1,100 pounds (500 kg), iron gray in color with black points, a long mane and flowing tail.
In the spring of 1861, a year before achieving fame as a Confederate general, Robert E. Lee was commanding a small force in western Virginia. The quartermaster of the 3rd Virginia Infantry, Captain Joseph M. Broun, was directed to "purchase a good serviceable horse of the best Greenbrier stock for our use during the war." Broun purchased the horse for $175 (approximately $4,000 in 2008)[1] from Andrew Johnston's son, Captain James W. Johnston, and named him Greenbrier. Major Thomas L. Broun, Joseph's brother recalled that Greenbrier
7. Black Nell;Wild Bill Hickok's Horse
Black Nell died in 1870. The horse's grave marker read: "Here lies Black Nell, the most gallant heroine of the Civil War and of the Plains."
8. The Denton Mare;Sam Bass?
Next set are about cowboy's equipment
9. What are the long leather coverings that go over the stirrups that prevent brush from getting in the stirrup?Stirrup leathers?
10. What is the average length the braided leather riata that the vaqueros used?40 + feet
11. Where was the "double rig" saddle(2 cinch western saddle) invented?Wyoming or Colorado
12. What was the name of the saddle issued by the US Calvary in the 1860's?I honestly don't know.
Western ridingis something I havent done in ages,I'm a bit rusty.And most horsies I know.
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