IEA Horsemanship Test | Actual Exam Questions | 100% Correct Answers | Verified 2024 Version

What are the three main types of muscles found in a horse's body? - Cardiac (Found in heart), Smooth (Found in autonomic systems like the digestive tract), Skeletal (Responsible for moving the bones) How much of a horses body weight do muscles account for? - About half What do flexor muscles do? - Bend joints What do extensor muscles do? - Strengthen joints What do tendons do? - Connect muscles to bones (more elastic than ligaments) When a tendon is damaged, what is compromised? - Elasticity Tendonitis - Any clinical or pathological disorder that involves inflammation within the tendon and paratendon, but does not involve the tendon sheath (a tendon sheath is what protects the tendon) Tendosynovitis - Inflammation within the tendon sheath Tendon rupture or bowed tendon - The most severe of stress-induced inflammatory reactions resulting in hemorrhage and edema (bleeding or swelling) The ideal horse's conformation can be described by being/having... - Three equal sections (Shoulders, barrel and hindquarters), Square (Excluding the head and neck, the horse is as long as he is tall), Equidistant (The distance from the point of shoulder to the point of the buttocks is equal