Equine Evaluation
Horse; Tuff Completed by:__Mary Beth Bandy________
Date:12/10/2012-12/18/2012_____
1. Horses Health:
2. Body Score:__5___ (Based on Hennecke Body Score 1-9 with 5
ideal)
Numbers on this scale are based on 5 being the best and 1 being the
worst.
3. Ground Work:
a. ___4__ Walking while being led.
b. ___4__ Trailer Loading.
c. ___4__ Round penning.
d. ___4__ Yielding hind quarters.
e. _4.5__ Direct and Driving.
f. _4____ Lunging.
g. _3.5__ Working with rope around feet, flanks, belly, under tail.
h. _3.5__ Lunging while dragging a tarp. (mainly sacked out with
tarp)
i. _n/a____ Lunging while dragging a log.
j. _5____ Doing all the above ground work while under saddle.
k. _5____ Doing all the above ground work while saddled and
bridled.
l. _5____ Haltering & catching.
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Working under saddle:
_4____ Mounting.
_4____ Dismounting.
_3.5___ Suppleness side to side.
_3 ___ Suppleness vertically.
_3____ Yielding hind quarters.
_4____ One rein stops.
_3____ Two handed stops.
_4____ Reining using two hands.
_3.5____ Reining using one hand (neck reining).
_4____ Walking relaxed and with a loose rein.
_4____ Trotting relaxed and with a loose rein.
_4____ Loping relaxed and with a loose rein.
_ 3 __ Collection under saddle.
___3__ Collection while standing still.
___3__ Collection while walking.
___2.5__ Collection while trotting.
q. ___n/a__ Collection while loping.
r. __none__ Spookiness while in arena.
s. ___3__ Spookiness while outside on trails.
t. ___3.5__ Gait transitions – walk to trot.
u. ___3__ Gait transitions – trot to canter.
v. ___3.5__ Backing.
w. ___n/a__ Sidepassing.
x. What does horse tend to spook at while on trails: Tuff is a neat
horse. I was able to take him out in the arena and on the trails.
He has a slight problem with coming home and leaving and that will
need to be addressed before a beginner could ride him, however he
is great on the trials away from home.
When does horse tend to spook:Tuff isnt real spooky at just one
thing but has high energy for about the first half hour out on
trails. Didn’t spook at dogs jumping off sides of the hills. Very
easy to be around!
z. Level of skills rider needs to have to ride in arena:
Intermediate/ beginner with lessons or help for first month!
Level of skills rider needs to have to ride on trails:
intermediate/advance high energy levels and green broke
Overall score horse has before trial period: 3.5
Overall score horse has after evaluation: 4.5
Comments: When I first started working tuff, he started
out great. He had no problems with saddling or
bridling however he prefers a hackamore. I started out
in the round pen but quickly moved to arena and from
there we were riding outside on trails.
Tuff has only
one problem that will need work and that is that he
hates going away from home. Mainly cause he looses
focus on the rider and has his attention on his friends
back home. I really think this will go away with some
more ground work and also some training in the saddle.
With in a week I was able to get pretty far with him
and I know with a couples weeks more with training
this problem most likely go away!