Horses and ponies: general interest

When owning, training, riding, and showing horses, there is a certain look to which one aspires.

A handy quick-reference with step-by-step color photos and easy-to-follow instructions from two top professional grooms.

A favorite storyteller sheds new light on the never-ending process of becoming better for the horse.

The only book available devoted to learning and perfecting working equitation obstacles.

The most complete guide available to understanding the horse's language, knowing how to "e;talk"e; back, and to using Horse Speak(R) principles in any training system.

A rare insider's look at the life of a professional sportsman as he tries to reconcile the passion that drives him with livelihood, family, and aging.

It is well known that the horse naturally carries more weight on his forehand than on his hindquarters.

An intensely moving memoir of a young man who left heartbreak in Maine to seek healing Out West in the company of horses.

A highly illustrated guide to the most effective and beneficial stretches for horses.

An eye-opening book leading equestrians into a brave new horse world, where we train horses their way, not ours.

An easy-to-implement framework proven to grow rider confidence, tested by the world's leading equestrian athletes.

A proven rider training system to sharpen position and vastly improve skill in the saddle.

An exciting follow-up from the bestselling author ofHow Good Riders Get Good and Know Better to Do Better.

Exciting ideas for achieving riding and training goals from the master of mental training for the equestrian athlete.

A book chock-full of answers to horse-behavior questions that will change your horse's life for the better.

Horsemanship of every kind depends on mutual interaction between equine and human brains.

Each book in the Horse Illustrated(R) Simple Solutions series zeroes in on a common problem faced by horse owners and is the perfect fast-reading source of answers for every horse lover.

The most comprehensive single volume dedicated to horses, Original Horse Bible, 2nd Edition is a celebration of the long relationship that humans and horses enjoy, written by two highly regarded horsewomen, the late Moira C.

There is no creature that quite embodies the beauty and grandeur of the American West as does the wild horse.

A second edition of the beloved guide to farm animals.

Veteran travel writer, photographer, and horseman Mark Bedor returns with another breathtaking adventure across the American West.

Twenty-five years after his racetrack classic Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich tells the story of how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck.

On horsemanship deals with the selection, care and training of horses in general.

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Barrel racing, in which horse and rider gallop in a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels, is the fastest-growing rodeo event.

People ought to try to make their horses happy, wrote Jacob Biggles wife Harriet in TheBiggle Horse Book in 1894.

Mules are hybrids within the animal kingdomthe infertile offspring of male donkeys and female horses.

Gordon Wright, the founding father of hunter-seat horsemanship is revered by generations of riders at all levels.

Although Miniature Horses and Shetland Ponies are smallest of all the equines, the enthusiasm of their owners and other fans is gigantic.

Own an unruly horse?

The popular and highly respected horse trainer Mark Rashid brings together Western and Eastern philosophies to demonstrate a seamless new incarnation of horse training.

There is no denying that the emotional bond between horses and the humans who love them can reach mystical proportions, and nowhere is that relationship more evident than in these twenty-four true-life accounts of horses rescuing people.

There is no denying that the emotional bond between horses and the humans who love them can reach mystical proportions, and nowhere is that relationship more evident than in these twenty-four true-life accounts of horses rescuing people.

Horse packingusing horses (and sometimes mules) as a form of conveyance for supplies and goodswas once a cornerstone of human transportation.

In Horses Never Lie, renowned horse trainer Mark Rashid challenges the conventional wisdom of alpha leadership and teaches the reader to become a passive leadera counterpart to the kind of horse other members of a herd choose to associate with and to follow.

At age thirteen, Dayton Hyde, a spirited beanpole of a boy, ran away from home in Michigan to Yamsi, his uncles ranch in eastern Oregon.

Many horse trainers, even those who espouse the so-called natural horsemanship approach, take the position that horses who fail to obey a human's request are doing so as much out of perversity as ignorance.

Only an experienced blacksmith with genuine care for his craft and the livelihood of all blacksmiths could produce such a wonderful guide.

Anyone who has kept a horses or pony knows that riding and stable management can be time-consuming and expensive activities.

In addition to traditional veterinary treatments, a wide range of alternative approaches to are becoming more main stream.

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Many first-time horse owners start out thinking theyll teach their animals a thing or two; but eventually most horse lovers end each day impatient to find what their horse will teach them next.

On a peaceful country morning, a horse named Bess approaches and connects telepathically with the author.

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Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak.