Equine Handling and Restraint

Faint Star

Star

Snip

Star, Snip

Stripe

Blaze

Bald

Stocking

Sock

High Stocking

Coronet

Pastern

Lip

Fetlock

Partial Fetlock

Pastern, Stripe

Apron Face

Medicine Hat

Crescent Star

Half Pastern with Emine

Half Pastern

Black

Dark Bay

Blood Bay

Liver Chestnut

Chestnut

Piebald

Red Dun

Red Roan

Blue Roan

Palomino

Cremello

Skewbald

Dapple Gray

Fleabitten Gray

Gray

Dominant white

Tricolor

Buckskin

Bay Dun

Black Dun/Grulla

Sorrel

Bay Blanket Appaloosa

Red Roan Appaloosa

Leopard Appaloosa

Bay Roan Appaloosa

Dun With Roan Blanket Appaloosa

Grulla Blanket Appaloosa

Chestnut Blanket Appaloosa

Dun Blanket (snowcap) Appaloosa

Tobiano (paint)

Overo (paint)

Sabino (paint)

Splashed White (paint)

Tovero (paint)

Rabicano (paint)

American Quarter Horse

Thoroughbred

Arabian

American Saddlebred

Standardbred

Tennessee Walking Horse

Morgan

Percheron

Belgian Draft Horse

Clydesdale

Warmblood

Andalusian

Lipizzaner

Friesian

Shetland Pony

Welsh Pony

Miniature Horse

American Quarter Horse Characteristics

• The horse should possess eye appeal that is the result of a harmonious blending of an attractive head.

• Refined throat latch.

• Well-proportioned, trim neck.

• Long, sloping shoulder.

• Deep heart girth.

• Short back.

• Strong loin and coupling.

• Long hip and croup.

• Well-defined and muscular stifle, gaskin, forearm and chest. 

• All stallions 2 years old and over shall have two visible testicles. 

• These characteristics should be coupled with straight and structurally correct legs and feet that are free of blemishes. 

• The horse should be a balanced athlete that is muscled uniformly throughout.