{"id":562,"date":"2021-05-05T21:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/?p=562"},"modified":"2021-05-05T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T19:24:43","slug":"upgrade-your-pony-vocab-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/2021\/05\/05\/upgrade-your-pony-vocab-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade your pony vocab, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you spend enough time with horsey people, you realise they seem to talk a different language. We’ve received a few questions about the meaning of horse-related words so thought we’d answer them here. If you have heard any horse-related words that you don’t understand, just send them through to lizzie@hqmagazine.co.za<\/strong> and we’ll put them in Part 2 of our series on pony vocab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AIDS: Natural aids are the way in which we use our legs, seat and hands to communicate with our pony. Artificial aids, like a whip or spurs, may be used to reinforce your natural aids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

CORRECT LEAD: This is when in canter, the inside front leg steps further forward. The inside front leg must always lead, unless of course you are riding in counter canter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DAM AND SIRE: These are the words used for your pony’s mother and father. A pony is OUT OF his dam (mom) and BY his sire (dad). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GREEN: A green pony is a pony who hasn’t had much schooling or experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEAR SIDE: The left hand side of your horse. This is traditionally where most handling, mounting and leading are done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you spend enough time with horsey people, you realise they seem to talk a different language. We’ve received a few questions about the meaning of horse-related words so thought we’d answer them here. If you have heard any horse-related words that you don’t understand, just send them through to lizzie@hqmagazine.co.za and we’ll put them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,113,13,6],"tags":[190,188,191,193,184,185,189,194,192,183,187,186],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-pony-channel","category-qa","category-riding","tag-artificial-aid","tag-correct-lead","tag-dam","tag-green","tag-language","tag-learning","tag-natural-aid","tag-near-side","tag-sire","tag-vocab","tag-wording","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqmagazine.co.za\/pony\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}