The aim of this diploma work was to specify the requirements for the front limb of a horse suitable for dressage competitions. The observed factors were individual parts of the front legs. Specifically, it was the shoulder angle, shoulder length, humerus length, shoulder joint angle, forearm length, carpal bones lenght, pastern lenght, horse height centimeters, and dimension from the shoulder joint to the hip. In total, 103 horses of eight different breeds used in dressage competitions were measured. The forearms of the horses were rated at performance levels L (58 horse), S (24 horses) and ST (21 horses). All measured horses did participate in dressage competitions in the past two years (2016 and 2017). From the dressage protocols belonging to the dressage racers, there were overall signs of walking, extended trot, extended canter, half-pass step and walk. For objective assessment, measurements were evaluated by Statistica program and by one-factor anova, Turkey's HSD test and Spearman correlations. The results of this work show that the most important dimension was the shoulder angle (ST 48 °). Furthermore, the horse height, where it turned out that the higher the horse (the ST 180 cm), the higher the performance and the better marks in dressage competitions. The length of the shoulder bone (about 44 cm) affects the marks for trot, canter and walk, but it does not affect whole performance too much. The pastern length (ST performance 18 cm) affects the grades behind the walk and the canter. On average, the shoulder length is about 61 cm, the size between the shoulder joint and the hip of the horse is 122 cm, the length of the forearm 46 47 cm, the length of the carpal bones 31 cm and the angle of the shoulder joint 99 °. Furthermore, the work shows that the higher the horse's performance, the less the dimensions were different, and thus the front legs were more similar. And the biggest differences are between performance horses L and ST or L and S, while the performance class horses at S and ST level are not so striking.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:376183 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Karolina |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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