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Balance in Movement Von Dietze
The art of successful riding is the development of harmony to such a degree, that, to the onlooker, horse and rider perform in total unity. The rider’s key to this ideal is not a static seat, but one that is capable of adapting to all movements of the horse. The closer the seat follows the movement, the better it can influence that movement and remain in perfect balance with the horse.
Braiding Manes and Tails
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Horse trainer and instructor Charni Lewis brings the wonderful process of braiding to life in her clearly described step-by-step guide to 30 beautiful braids. Helping the braider along are full-color photographs and detailed illustrations showing twists and turns that make each style unique and the hand positions necessary to hold those ropes of equine hair in place. To keep hands free for braiding the book has a nail hole at the top of each page for easy hanging on a post or barn wall.
Spiral Bound- 151 pages
Feet First Barefoot Performance & Hoof Rehabilitation
It has long been taken for granted that shoes are essential to protect a horse’s feet. This book challenges that notion and demonstrates that many horses hooves are capable of high levels of performance on all surfaces without shoes.
This ground-breaking book explores the issues surrounding barefoot horses and looks in detail at how to improve overall hoof health, in both shod and barefoot horses. The book offers a practical, hands-on advice on achieving barefoot performance in a variety of disciplines – from eventing and hunting to endurance – focussing on the essential elements for healthy hooves: diet, environment, exercise and trimming or shoeing. Paperback, 168 pages.
From the Horse’s Point of View – Kutsch
Beyond Natural Horsemanship – Striking in the facts it reveals, this book leads equestrians into a brave new horse world, where we train horses their way, not ours.
Andrea Kutsch bravely goes on to myth-bust popular assumptions related to typical gestures made by the horse, such as “licking and chewing” and “lowering the head.” She explores how ethograms can be used to map out equine body language and help us attain a clearer sense of the horse’s true perspective.
Paperback- 192 pages.
Grid Pro Quo McKelvy
Favourite lessons from the pros to improve your horse’s adjustability, connection, and performance over fences. 52 Powerful Jumping Exercises from the World’s Top Riders.
This modern-day quick reference to more than 50 grids and jumping exercises brings the best of top international training and instruction into your home ring. Build your skillset and your horse’s confidence and conditioning with a fantastic selection of lessons you can use to:
No Bored Horses – Essential Enrichment for Happy Equines
Today horses are thought of as family members, athletic partners, and patient teachers and therapists. Most of us do our very best to give them all the benefits that contemporary domestic life can offer: comfortable stalls; carefully prepared and regular meals with vitamins and supplements; top-notch veterinary and hoof care; even regular bodywork. So why do so many horses struggle with health, behavioural, and training problems?
No Bored Horses is for every desperate equestrian whose horse is going stir-crazy, and for the owner of the horse with behavioural problems that she just can’t seem to fix. And it is for every one of us whose aim is to give our horses the experiences and opportunities that create true well-being in our company.
Chock full of fantastically engaging original illustrations, diagrams, and charts, plus color photographs and instructions for more than 30 toys, puzzles, and experiences attainable for all equestrians, regardless of level of experience or size of budget, Goble’s book promises every horseperson can afford to make her recommended changes and ultimately improve a horse’s life. Plus, alongside plenty of inspiration for everyday fun, readers will also find valuable advice for the most challenging situations, like extended stall rest and quarantine.
Paperback, full colour, 221 pages.
Pilates for Equestrians
A guide to how Pilates can help you develop a more effective riding position and achieve better competition results.
“The book is dedicated to specific exercises, most of which can be done without any special equipment like gym balls or bands. All of the exercises are explained clearly, with excellent accompanying photographs and a box detailing how the exercise relates to your riding….The book also covers key exercises which can be used to combat common rider faults.”—Horse & Hound
NEW EDITION 2015 Hardcover.
Pilates For Horses Book
An innovative and easy-to-use application of Pilates principles to the training, conditioning, and rehabilitation of horses by Laura Reiman.
This highly illustrated how-to manual provides a clear guide to new ways of thinking about how to prevent injury in the horse, and when injuries do happen, to help the horse’s body recover in a mindful and safe way. Paperback 160 pages.
The Horse Anatomy Workbook – Raynor
Maggie Raynor has prepared this very detailed labelling and colouring book for equine students fully illustrated and designed to assist in remembering anatomical detail and terminology.
The book is ring bound to open flat. Paperback, 192 pages.
The Horses Who Made Me
How a Grand Prix dressage rider competed at the highest level before finding her way to liberty work, and the extraordinary lessons that moulded her perceptions, understandings, and feelings along the way.
In her deeply personal and strikingly beautiful book, Alizee Froment traces her evolution as a horsewoman, a dressage competitor, and now a world-renowned performer and liberty trainer. Readers meet the ponies she learned on, and the challenging mounts that helped her grow as a junior rider. There were horses she immediately loved and horses she had to work to connect with—and eventually there were Mistral and Sultan, who she calls her “yin and yang,” and who elevated her aspirations both beside and on the back of a horse. It is with these two special souls that Froment further explored riding the Grand Prix movements with only a neck rope—no bridle or bit, and often bareback as well—and demonstrating to the world the potential that is there for all riders to enjoy, if they are open to the experience and are willing to take the time for it to evolve.
Hardcover, full colour, 191 pages.
World Class Braiding Manes & Tails
A handy quick-reference with step-by-step color photos and easy-to-follow instructions from two top professional grooms. Spiral Bound for easy use.
Professional grooms Cat Hill and Emma Ford, co-authors of the bestselling World-Class Grooming for Horses, have braided thousands of horses for a variety of disciplines over the course of their esteemed careers in the equestrian industry. Now they’ve highlighted those skills in a book conceived to be a helpful barn companion—one you can take with you and keep in your tack trunk, providing a go-to reference whenever you need it. Full of full-color photographs that illustrate every step of the process.
Four Legs Move My Soul – Werth
The Authorised Biography of Dressage Olympian Isabell Werth.
Retail $49.95 Our price $42.00
German Olympian Isabell Werth is one of the most successful horsewomen in the world. With six Olympic gold medals and scores of championship titles to her name, there are few who equal her on paper. Readers will get the inside scoop when it comes to Werth’s accomplishments-and her failures, too. They’ll hear her personal thoughts regarding some of the biggest controversies to rock the dressage world: Rollkur and Totilas. Perhaps most importantly, they’ll learn about each of the sensitive and talented horses that has impacted Werth’s life, including Gigolo, Satchmo, and Bella Rose.
Paperback 336 pages
Horse Brain / Human Brain
By Janet Jones, brain scientist and horsewoman.
Horsemanship of every kind depends on mutual interaction between equine and human brains. When we understand the function of both, we can learn to communicate with horses on their terms instead of ours.
Paperback – 312 pages
Physical Therapy for Horses
A Visual Course in Massage, Stretching, Rehabilitation, Anatomy, and Bio-mechanics
In this highly illustrated book, the author begins with a comprehensible introduction to the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, as well as an instructive conversation covering bio-mechanics basics, then explores the major areas of therapy in detail. Readers will find practical how-to guidance in the most popular therapeutic modalities, as well as cutting-edge alternatives that are currently gaining ground: fascia work, stretching, massage, stability and strengthening exercises, laser therapy, kinesiotaping, and much more.
Stride Control
AUTHOR: JEN MARSDEN HAMILTON
Understanding and implementing stride control (being able to adjust the number of strides before and between fences) improves a horse’s rideability and allows the rider to further improve the horse’s technique over an obstacle. Jen Marsden Hamilton discovered striding from former US Show Jumping Chef d’Equipe George Morris, who credits her as being the first student to whom he taught the method that he’d learned from Bertalan De Némethy, one of his mentors.
Stride control is an essential part of any rider’s development when jumping obstacles, and jumping them well, is a goal. Paperback, 176 pages, illustrated
Training and Riding with Cones and Poles
By Sigrid Schöpe
Training your horse to concentrate on a lesson, bend his body from nose to tail, and pay attention to where he places his feet—whatever your discipline or level of expertise, these are necessary foundation skills. This book shows how to exercises using two very basic training tools: traffic cones and ground poles. Arranged in an easy-to-view format so you can work through the exercises progressively, or dip in as you please.
Spiral Bound Hardback, 96 Pages, Illustrated
Yoga for Riders
Yoga teacher and horsewoman Cathy Woods believes the meditative, mindful breathwork and lifestyle aspects of yoga, as well as the postures, can be profoundly helpful in our interactions with horses. In addition, Woods shares specific stretches for strength, flexibility, and balance, as well as postures that contribute to rider safety as we age. The result is a book that helps us become more aware and conscious riders while gently correcting our imbalances, resulting in a richer, more rewarding, more joyful horsemanship experience.
Paperback, 184 pages, illustrated.
Dressage For No Country Paul Belasik
In this new book Paul Belasik shares a lifetime of searching and studying, both through stories of his own adventures and thoughtful essays on the subjects he has pondered during the years he has trained and ridden horses. Beginning in northern New York, and travelling to Portugal, and later, Vienna, Belasik serves as a tour guide of the various dressage “paths” he had the chance to explore, including the German system, the Portuguese art of equitation, and the revered institutions of the Spanish Riding School. Armed with the knowledge and experience he accrued over time, Belasik debates whether classical dressage and competition dressage are at all compatible. Then, he considers the role of mindfulness, how to become a good teacher, and how to be a good student in today’s horse world, providing the guideposts needed to take dressage–and riding, in general–the next step forward.
