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BORDER PATROL HORSE PATROL
TEST 2025 BRAND NEW ACTUAL
EXAM WITH ANSWERS.
Buckskin refers to a coat color similar to the color of tanned
deer hide, occurring due to the presence of cream dilution
gene in a bay horse. There are several buckskin variations,
including silver dapple and sooty. These horses have a gold
or tan coat with a black tail, mane, and lower legs.
What color is this?
The term 'sorrel', originating from the color of flower spikes
of sorrel plants, is alternatively used for referring to chestnut
(a common coat color in horses). Sorrel horses have a
copper-red body, with similar or lighter mane and tail and
chestnut as a browner shade.
What color is this?
Most gray horses have black skin and dark eyes
What color is this?
True black horses have dark brown eyes, black skin, and
wholly black hair coats without any areas of permanently
reddish or brownish hair. They may have pink skin beneath
any white markings under the areas of white hair, and if such
white markings include one or both eyes, the eyes may be
blue.
What color is this?
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A dun horse always has a dark dorsal stripe down the middle
of its back, usually has a darker face and legs, and may have
transverse striping across the shoulders or horizontal
striping on the back of the forelegs.
What color is this?
What is the first step for saddling?
Lay hair down with blanket sweep.
What is the second step for saddling?
Blanket must be even on both sides.
What is the third step for saddling?
Blanket must be tented for air flow.
What is the forth step for saddling?
Blanket must be 2 inches from the front edge of the saddle
What is the fifth step for saddling?
There must be a two finger space at the gullet
What is the sixth step for saddling?
The front of the saddle bar should be at the back of the shoulder
What is the seventh step for saddling?
The breast collar must be placed two fingers above the point of
the shoulder, and there must be a four finger space between the
breast collar and the chest of the horse
What is the eighth step for saddling?
The cinch ring must be placed at least three fingers back of an
above the point of the elbow
What is the ninth step for saddling?
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The back cinch must be in contact with the barrel of the horse
What is the tenth step for saddling?
The rider must walk the horse before making a final inspection
When was the horse patrol founded?
On may 28, 1924
What 9 sectors have horse patrol?
San diego, spokane, tucson, el paso, el centro, big bend, del rio,
rio grande, laredo.
For digestive reasons what should horses be given first?
Second? And third?
Water, hay, grain
How many gallons on water horses drink per day?
10-12 gallons.
What is the feed to weight ratio?
1.5 lbs of forage per 100 lbs per day.
What is the most common source of energy fed to a horse?
Grain.
What are the ten saddling checkpoints?
1. Lay hair down with a blanket sweep.
2. Blanket must be even on both sides.
3. Blanket must be tented for air flow.
4. Blanket must extend two inches from the front edge of the
saddle.
BORDER PATROL HORSE PATROL
TEST 2025 BRAND NEW ACTUAL
EXAM WITH ANSWERS.
Buckskin refers to a coat color similar to the color of tanned
deer hide, occurring due to the presence of cream dilution
gene in a bay horse. There are several buckskin variations,
including silver dapple and sooty. These horses have a gold
or tan coat with a black tail, mane, and lower legs.
What color is this?
The term 'sorrel', originating from the color of flower spikes
of sorrel plants, is alternatively used for referring to chestnut
(a common coat color in horses). Sorrel horses have a
copper-red body, with similar or lighter mane and tail and
chestnut as a browner shade.
What color is this?
Most gray horses have black skin and dark eyes
What color is this?
True black horses have dark brown eyes, black skin, and
wholly black hair coats without any areas of permanently
reddish or brownish hair. They may have pink skin beneath
any white markings under the areas of white hair, and if such
white markings include one or both eyes, the eyes may be
blue.
What color is this?
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A dun horse always has a dark dorsal stripe down the middle
of its back, usually has a darker face and legs, and may have
transverse striping across the shoulders or horizontal
striping on the back of the forelegs.
What color is this?
What is the first step for saddling?
Lay hair down with blanket sweep.
What is the second step for saddling?
Blanket must be even on both sides.
What is the third step for saddling?
Blanket must be tented for air flow.
What is the forth step for saddling?
Blanket must be 2 inches from the front edge of the saddle
What is the fifth step for saddling?
There must be a two finger space at the gullet
What is the sixth step for saddling?
The front of the saddle bar should be at the back of the shoulder
What is the seventh step for saddling?
The breast collar must be placed two fingers above the point of
the shoulder, and there must be a four finger space between the
breast collar and the chest of the horse
What is the eighth step for saddling?
The cinch ring must be placed at least three fingers back of an
above the point of the elbow
What is the ninth step for saddling?
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The back cinch must be in contact with the barrel of the horse
What is the tenth step for saddling?
The rider must walk the horse before making a final inspection
When was the horse patrol founded?
On may 28, 1924
What 9 sectors have horse patrol?
San diego, spokane, tucson, el paso, el centro, big bend, del rio,
rio grande, laredo.
For digestive reasons what should horses be given first?
Second? And third?
Water, hay, grain
How many gallons on water horses drink per day?
10-12 gallons.
What is the feed to weight ratio?
1.5 lbs of forage per 100 lbs per day.
What is the most common source of energy fed to a horse?
Grain.
What are the ten saddling checkpoints?
1. Lay hair down with a blanket sweep.
2. Blanket must be even on both sides.
3. Blanket must be tented for air flow.
4. Blanket must extend two inches from the front edge of the
saddle.
