Horse Judging and Hippology

Practices for Hippology and Horse Judging are set to begin on March 31st! What is horse judging and hippology you ask?  Great question!  Hippology is the study of the horse, which includes anatomy, horse care, nutrition, diseases, equipment, and more!  Youth have the opportunity to show off their horse knowledge at the state hippology contest in June which includes a written test, judging a couple of classes of horses, and an identification phase.  Horse judging involves teaching youth how to learn and apply knowledge of the ideal features of a variety of horse breeds and riding styles. Horse judging helps youth recognize desirable and undesirable qualities in horses, make logical decisions, defend those decisions, and develop a lot of confidence and communication skills a long the way.  The horse judging contest is the same day as the hippology contest, so we practice for those two contests together. 

Team coaches again this year will be Amy Burk (amyburk@umd.edu or 401-274-3274) and Diana Cullum (diana.cullum@verizon.net or 410-598-2163).  Practices will be on Sundays at the times and locations described in the attached tentative schedule.  Again this year, we've been invited to practice with Carroll County on Wednesday evenings which are optional.

Please let Amy or Diana know if your child would like to participate in the practices by March 28th!

Be sure to download the schedule for practices with specific information about times, location, etc.