There are some differences between riding terms used in the US to those in the UK. To help avoid confusion and to help understand some of the terms used in messages on the message board here is our 'conversion' table.
It's an ongoing list which you can add to - if there's something we haven't yet covered add a comment to the bottom of the page and we'll incorporate them into the page.
UK Term
US Term
Canter
Lope (Western Riding)
Hack
Trail Ride
Headcollar
Halter
Hogging
Roaching
Livery Yard
Barn
Napping
Barn Sour
Numnah
Saddle Pad
Trot
Jog (Western Riding)
Comments
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Kerry Prendergast9th Apr 01
Box(UK) - Stall(US)
horse_chestnut9th Apr 01
rug(UK) - blanket(US)
Somethingroyal9th Apr 01
Could we have a formula for convertung UK prices to US prices up here, and vice versa? IT would be most helpful
Vera10th Apr 01
? (UK) pigrooting (AUS) crowhopping (US)
Liz11th Apr 01
To convert UK to US prices and vice versa:
Take the UK price in pounds and multiply it by 1.6
All taken from 'The Manual of Horsemanship', the Official Manual of the Pony Club UK, 11th edition.
cvb9th Nov 01
Girth (UK) - Cinch (western)
Hollie11th Nov 01
Piebald (uk) Pinto (us)
Epona UK13th Nov 01
Blanket.USA - Rug.UK
Founder.USA - Laminitis.UK
Rail.USA - Track.UK
Reverse.USA - Change of Rein.UK
Bump.USA - Leg Aid,UK
Quirt. USA - Crop. UK
Buggy Whip.USA - Lunge Whip. UK
Cathy Reynolds14th Nov 01
Are you sure about buggy whip - is that not a driving whip (UK)
Cathy Reynolds14th Nov 01
lungeing UK longeing US
Hack UK Trail ride US
Cathy Reynolds14th Nov 01
rising UK posting US
JumperGirl15th Nov 01
It would also be heelpful to have somewhere on here to convert UK currency in to canadian money, it gets very confusing!
wordbird28th Dec 01
Two things :)
*Jumpergirl-if you can convert the UK money to US dollars, I usually just double the price to come to Canadian. It comes to a close estimate.
*Around here a canter and a lope are two very different things.. and so is a trot and a jog. I think you might be getting them mixed up with Western terms and English terms instead of US and Uk? Another thing, I always thought a Driving Whip and a Lounging Whip were two different things.
Kate19th Feb 02
In the US we also use canter, trot, crop, Lunge Whip, Girth. It's not just the UK that uses those.
Christy4th Apr 02
Just a note...
Pinto is a colour type: a Piebald has only large white and black markings while a Skewbald has white and any colour other than black.
Lauren3rd Jun 02
Hey WordBird,
Yeah, in the US, we use trot and canter too, but that's only for riding English. When riding Western we call it jog and lope.
Lewis18th Nov 02
Paint Breed aka Paint Hourses (Paint is both the breed and the color) come in all colors (Bay, Blue Roan, Buckskin,Chestnut, Dun, Gray, Grullo, Palomino, Red Dun, Red Roan, Sorrel , however the main catagories/distinctions are Tobiano, Tovero and Overo. They are also known as Pinto in the USA(in the UK Paint Horses are known as Piebald, Skewbald and Odd-Colored) To learn more try the site www.apha.com..it is informative and gives their history from 1500
