Horses

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University contact person:  Dr. Mark Zidon

Examples of cards used in this event.

Click here for tutorial of filling in bubble for placing classes.

CDE Coordinator:  Mari Dean

Information from related Horse Events:

• Fox Valley Horse event
• River Falls Horse event
• Wisconsin State Horse event
• Janesville Career Development events
• National Horse Evaluation rules

Contest Purpose:  To provide a competitive event for agricultural education students, empahsizing skills in horse selection and management.

Objectives:

1. To promote career choices by providing an opportunity for contestants to become acquainted with professionals within the industry.
2. To advance knowledge in selection and management of horses.
3. To provide the opportunity to evaluate, make a decision and justify those decisions on conformation traits and performance of horses.

Event format:

The contest is planned to be run similar to the state contest as outlined below. Some minor changes may occur based on availability of classes and resources.

Written exam.

Selection classes.

• 3 halter classes
  • 3 year old quarter horse mares
  • 3 year old quarter horse geldings
  • 5 year old quarter horse (stock horse) mares
• Performance classes
  • 5 year old quarter horse (stock horse) geldings

Reasons/Questions.

There will be one questions class. Questions will be asked after judging the three halter classes and one performance class.  Questions will be based on any of all of the performance and halter classes.  This section is worth 50 points.