This diploma work deals with what influence the colour (red, yellow, green and blue) of an obstacle has on the jumping performance of horses. Eleven horses of different ages and breeds which are used for both recreational as well as sport riding purposes participated in the trial. The success of the horses at jumping over obstacles of variours colours was evaluated in relation to other selected variables, namely gender, age, height of the jump, and the type of riding surface. The horses were most successful at jumping yellow (96.4%) and red (95.2%) obstacles, whilst being less successful over green (85.7%) and blue (83.3%) ones. A successful jump included those where the front or hind hoof touched the obstacle without actually knocking the obstacle down. The values for touching the obstacle with the front or hind hoof were approximately the same for the red (7.1%) and green (9.5%) obstacles. With the yellow obstacles, there was a higher percentage of touching with the front hoof (11.9%) than the hind hoof (4.7%). With the blue obstacles, there was also a higher percentage of touching with the front hoof (10.7%) than the hind hoof (9.5%), although the difference was not as marked as with the yellow obstacles. The influence of the other selected variables on the jumping performance of the horses over the different coloured obstacles was diverse. The values of the correlation coefficients for gender and the type of riding surface did not prove there was a statistically significant influence of the horse´s success. In contrast, statistically significant relationships were proven for the height of a jump which was green, with a correlation coefficient rxy = -0.236+ (i.e. the higher the green jump the less successful the jumps), or yellow, with a correlation coefficient rxy = -0.377+++ (i.e. the older the horse the less successful the jumps).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:320543 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | HOLINKOVÁ, Petra |
| 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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