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Morgan horse

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The Morgan horse is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States. [1]

108 relations: Allele, Ambling gait, American Civil War, American Morgan Horse Association, American Quarter Horse, American Saddlebred, Anterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis, Back (horse), Battle of the Little Bighorn, Bay (horse), Black (horse), Black Hawk (horse), Breed registry, Buckskin (horse), California Gold Rush, Carriage, Cavalry, Cavalry in the American Civil War, Chestnut (coat), Children's Book Council (United States), Christopher Lippitt, Comanche (horse), Combined driving, Cream gene, Cutting (sport), Detroit, Dominance (genetics), Draft horse, Dressage, Driving (horse), Dun gene, Easy keeper, Ellen Feld, Endurance riding, English riding, Equine coat color, Equine coat color genetics, Equine polysaccharide storage myopathy, Equine vision, Equine-assisted therapy, Ethan Allen (horse), Figure (horse), Foundation stock, Glycogen synthase, Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show, Gray (horse), Hackney horse, Harness racing, Horse breed, Horse gait, ..., International Literacy Association, Joseph Battell, Justin Morgan, Lethal white syndrome, Lippitt Mill, List of U.S. state horses, Mare, Marguerite Henry, Massachusetts, Middlebury, Vermont, Missense mutation, Missouri Fox Trotter, Mustang, New England, Newbery Medal, Oklahoma City, Overo, Palomino, Pedigree chart, Philip Sheridan, Pinto horse, Pleasure riding, Pony Club, Preservation breeding, Roan (horse), Robert Frost, Robert Knight (industrialist), Rump (animal), Sabino horse, Show jumping, Silver dapple gene, Splashed white, Stallion, Standardbred, Stock horse, Stonewall Jackson, Tail (horse), Tennessee Walking Horse, The Walt Disney Company, Thoroughbred, Tobiano, Trot, Tunbridge, Vermont, United States, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Equestrian Federation, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, University of Vermont, University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm, Vermont, Walt Disney Pictures, Western pleasure, Western riding, Weybridge, Vermont, Withers, Zygosity, 4-H, 7th Cavalry Regiment. Expand index (58 more) »

Allele

An allele is a variant form of a given gene.

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Ambling gait

An ambling gait or amble is any of several four-beat intermediate horse gaits, all of which are faster than a walk but usually slower than a canter and always slower than a gallop.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Morgan Horse Association

The American Morgan Horse Association (AMHA) is the largest equine registry dedicated to the Morgan horse.

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American Quarter Horse

The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances.

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American Saddlebred

The American Saddlebred is a horse breed from the United States.

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Anterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis

Anterior segment mesenchymal dysgenesis, or simply anterior segment dysgenesis (ASD), is a failure of the normal development of the tissues of the anterior segment of the eye.

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Back (horse)

The back describes the area of horse anatomy where the saddle goes, and in popular usage extends to include the loin or lumbar region behind the thoracic vertebrae that also is crucial to a horse's weight-carrying ability.

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Battle of the Little Bighorn

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army.

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Bay (horse)

Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish-brown body color with a black mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs.

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Black (horse)

Black is a hair coat color of horses in which the entire hair coat is black.

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Black Hawk (horse)

Black Hawk (1833–1856) was an influential Morgan horse sire.

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Breed registry

A breed registry, also known as a herdbook, studbook or register, in animal husbandry and the hobby of animal fancy, is an official list of animals within a specific breed whose parents are known.

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Buckskin (horse)

Buckskin is a hair coat color of horses, referring to a color that resembles certain shades of tanned deerskin.

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California Gold Rush

The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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Carriage

A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn; litters (palanquins) and sedan chairs are excluded, since they are wheelless vehicles.

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Cavalry

Cavalry (from the French cavalerie, cf. cheval 'horse') or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback.

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Cavalry in the American Civil War

Cavalry in the American Civil War was a branch of army service in a process of transition for the union.

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Chestnut (coat)

Chestnut is a hair coat color of horses consisting of a reddish-to-brown coat with a mane and tail the same or lighter in color than the coat.

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Children's Book Council (United States)

The Children's Book Council is a United States "nonprofit trade association of publishers and packagers of trade books and related materials for children and young adults", according to its website, dedicated to promoting children’s books and reading.

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Christopher Lippitt

Christopher Lippitt (October 28, 1744 – June 17, 1824) was a prominent Revolutionary War officer and founder one of the earliest textile mills in Rhode Island.

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Comanche (horse)

Comanche was a mixed-breed horse who survived General George Armstrong Custer's detachment of the United States 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25, 1876).

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Combined driving

Combined driving (also known as horse driving trials) is an equestrian sport involving carriage driving.

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Cream gene

The cream gene is responsible for a number of horse coat colors.

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Cutting (sport)

Cutting is a western-style equestrian competition in which a horse and rider work as a team before a judge or panel of judges to demonstrate the horse's athleticism and ability to handle cattle during a minute performance, called a "run." Each contestant is assisted by four helpers: two are designated as turnback help to keep cattle from running off to the back of the arena, and the other two are designated as herd holders to keep the cattle bunched together and prevent potential strays from escaping into the work area.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Dominance (genetics)

Dominance in genetics is a relationship between alleles of one gene, in which the effect on phenotype of one allele masks the contribution of a second allele at the same locus.

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Draft horse

A draft horse (US), draught horse (UK and Commonwealth) or dray horse (from the Old English dragan meaning "to draw or haul"; compare Dutch dragen and German tragen meaning "to carry" and Danish drage meaning "to draw" or "to fare"), less often called a carthorse, work horse or heavy horse, is a large horse bred to be a working animal doing hard tasks such as plowing and other farm labor.

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Dressage

Dressage (or; a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a highly skilled form of riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an "art" sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery.

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Driving (horse)

Driving, when applied to horses, ponies, mules, or donkeys, is a broad term for hitching equines to a wagon, carriage, cart, sleigh, or other horse-drawn vehicle by means of a harness and working them in this way.

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Dun gene

The dun gene is a dilution gene that affects both red and black pigments in the coat color of a horse.

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Easy keeper

An easy keeper, easy doer or (British English) good doer is a livestock animal that can live on relatively little food.

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Ellen Feld

Ellen Feld is an American author, most notably of children's books about horses, in particular, Morgan Horses.

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Endurance riding

Endurance riding is an equestrian sport based on controlled long-distance races.

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English riding

English riding is a form of horse riding seen throughout the world.

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Equine coat color

Horses exhibit a diverse array of coat colors and distinctive markings.

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Equine coat color genetics

Equine coat color genetics determine a horse's coat color.

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Equine polysaccharide storage myopathy

Equine polysaccharide storage myopathy (EPSM, PSSM, EPSSM) is an inheritable glycogen storage disease of horses that causes exertional rhabdomyolysis.

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Equine vision

The equine eye is the one of the largest of any land mammal.

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Equine-assisted therapy

Equine-assisted therapy (EAT) encompasses a range of treatments that involve activities with horses and other equines to promote human physical and mental health.

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Ethan Allen (horse)

Ethan Allen (June 18 1849 – September 10 1876) was an influential Morgan horse sire and trotting racehorse.

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Figure (horse)

Figure was a small bay stallion owned by Justin Morgan; he became the foundation sire of the Morgan horse breed.

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Foundation stock

Foundation bloodstock or foundation stock are animals that are the progenitors, or foundation, of a new breed (or crossbreed or hybrid), or of a given bloodline within such.

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Glycogen synthase

Glycogen synthase (UDP-glucose-glycogen glucosyltransferase) is a key enzyme in glycogenesis, the conversion of glucose into glycogen.

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Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show

The Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show is the largest annual competition for the Morgan horse.

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Gray (horse)

Gray or grey is a coat color of horses characterized by progressive silvering of the colored hairs of the coat.

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Hackney horse

The Hackney is a recognized breed of horse that was developed in Great Britain.

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Harness racing

Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace).

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Horse breed

A horse breed is a selectively bred population of domesticated horses, often with pedigrees recorded in a breed registry.

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Horse gait

Horse gaits are the various ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of specialized training by humans.

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International Literacy Association

The International Literacy Association (ILA), formerly the International Reading Association (IRA), is an international professional organization that was created in 1956 to improve reading instruction, facilitate dialogue about research on reading, and encourage the habit of reading.

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Joseph Battell

Joseph Battell (July 15, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was a publisher and philanthropist from Middlebury, Vermont.

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Justin Morgan

Justin Morgan (February 28, 1747 – March 22, 1798) was a U.S. horse breeder and composer.

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Lethal white syndrome

Lethal white syndrome (LWS), also called overo lethal white syndrome (OLWS), lethal white overo (LWO), and overo lethal white foal syndrome (OLWFS), is an autosomal genetic disorder most prevalent in the American Paint Horse.

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Lippitt Mill

The Lippitt Mill is an historic mill at 825 Main Street in West Warwick, Rhode Island.

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List of U.S. state horses

Twelve U.S. states have designated a horse breed as the official state horse.

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Mare

A mare is an adult female horse or other equine.

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Marguerite Henry

Marguerite Henry née Breithaupt (April 13, 1902 – November 26, 1997) was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Middlebury, Vermont

Middlebury is the shire town (county seat) of Addison County, Vermont, United States.

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Missense mutation

In genetics, a missense mutation is a point mutation in which a single nucleotide change results in a codon that codes for a different amino acid.

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Missouri Fox Trotter

The Missouri Fox Trotter is a horse breed from the state of Missouri in the United States.

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Mustang

The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the American west that first descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Overo

Overo refers to several genetically unrelated pinto coloration patterns of white-over-dark body markings in horses, and is a term used by the American Paint Horse Association to classify a set of pinto patterns that are not Tobiano.

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Palomino

Palomino is a genetic color in horses, consisting of a gold coat and white mane and tail.

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Pedigree chart

A pedigree chart is a diagram that shows the occurrence and appearance or phenotypes of a particular gene or organism and its ancestors from one generation to the next, most commonly humans, show dogs, and race horses.

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Philip Sheridan

Philip Henry Sheridan (March 6, 1831 – August 5, 1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Pinto horse

A pinto horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color.

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Pleasure riding

Pleasure riding is a form of equestrianism that encompasses many forms of recreational riding for personal enjoyment, absent elements of competition.

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Pony Club

Pony Club is an international youth organization devoted to the educating youths about horses and riding.

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Preservation breeding

Preservation breeding is an attempt by many animal breeders to preserve bloodlines of animals, either of a rare breed, or of rare pedigrees within a breed.

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Roan (horse)

Roan is a horse coat color pattern characterized by an even mixture of colored and white hairs on the body, while the head and "points"—lower legs, mane and tail—are mostly solid-colored.

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.

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Robert Knight (industrialist)

Robert Knight (8 January 1826 – 26 November 1912) was a New England industrialist and philanthropist, who was a partner with his brother Benjamin Knight in B. B. & R. Knight and was one of the largest textile manufacturers in the world when he died in 1912.

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Rump (animal)

The rump or croup, in the external morphology of an animal, is the portion of the posterior dorsum – that is, posterior to the loins and anterior to the tail.

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Sabino horse

Sabino is a group of white spotting patterns in horses that affect the skin and hair.

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Show jumping

Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping", "open jumping", or simply "jumping", is a part of a group of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation.

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Silver dapple gene

The silver or silver dapple (Z) gene is a dilution gene that affects the black base coat color.

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Splashed white

Splashed white or splash is a horse coat color pattern in the "overo" family of spotting patterns that produces pink-skinned, white markings.

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Stallion

A stallion is a male horse that has not been gelded (castrated).

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Standardbred

The Standardbred is an American horse breed best known for its ability in harness racing, where members of the breed compete at either a trot or pace.

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Stock horse

A stock horse is a horse of a type that is well suited for working with livestock, particularly cattle.

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Stonewall Jackson

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) served as a Confederate general (1861–1863) during the American Civil War, and became one of the best-known Confederate commanders after General Robert E. Lee.

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Tail (horse)

The tail of the horse and other equines consists of two parts, the dock and the skirt.

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Tennessee Walking Horse

The Tennessee Walking Horse or Tennessee Walker is a breed of gaited horse known for its unique four-beat running-walk and flashy movement.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing.

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Tobiano

Tobiano is a spotted color pattern commonly seen in Pinto horses, produced by a dominant gene.

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Trot

The trot is a two-beat diagonal gait of the horse where the diagonal pairs of legs move forward at the same time with a moment of suspension between each beat.

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Tunbridge, Vermont

Tunbridge is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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United States Equestrian Federation

The United States Equestrian Federation (USEF or US Equestrian) is the national governing body for most equestrian sports in the United States.

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University of Kansas Natural History Museum

The University of Kansas Natural History Museum is part of the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, a KU designated research center dedicated to the study of the life of the planet.

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University of Vermont

The University of Vermont (UVM), officially The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public research university and, since 1862, the sole land-grant university in the U.S. state of Vermont.

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University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm

The Morgan Horse Farm is a historic horse breeding facility at 74 Battell Drive (off Morgan Horse Farm Road) in Weybridge, Vermont.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Walt Disney Pictures

Walt Disney Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, owned by The Walt Disney Company.

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Western pleasure

Western Pleasure is a western style competition at horse shows that evaluates horses on manners and suitability of the horse for a relaxed but collected gait cadence and relatively slow speed of gait, along with calm and responsive disposition.

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Western riding

Western riding is a style of horseback riding which evolved from the ranching and warfare traditions brought to the Americas by the Spanish Conquistadors, and both equipment and riding style evolved to meet the working needs of the cowboy in the American West.

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Weybridge, Vermont

Weybridge is a town in Addison County, Vermont, United States.

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Withers

The withers is the ridge between the shoulder blades of an animal, typically a quadruped.

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Zygosity

Zygosity is the degree of similarity of the alleles for a trait in an organism.

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4-H

4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development".

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7th Cavalry Regiment

The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry regiment formed in 1866.

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References

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