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Have you ever been baffled by your horse’s behavior? Understanding why your horse behaves the way he does is the key to trouble-free riding, good health, relaxed handling and a happier stable life. Learn more about your horse in the information-packed new title Know Your Horse.
• This comprehensive guide is designed to help you really understand your horse. You’ll learn how to solve problems in the paddock, stable and in the saddle.
• Use the personalized assessments to help solve all the mysteries of your horse’s behavior. Making observations and answering several focused questions will help you determine the nature of the problem behavior and how to resolve it.
• Horse lovers will be thrilled by the encyclopedic detail included in this book — you’ll learn all about your horse, from tooth to tail. Chapters are dedicated to instinctive behavior, body language, your horse’s body, stable manners, your horse under saddle and your horse in the field.
• Written by Nicola Swinney, editor of Horse and Hound, the UK’s leading equestrian magazine and best-selling author of Spirit of the Horse. ...
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Achieve Lightness and Self-Carriage in a Calm, Settled Horse by Following This Step-by-Step Training Program, Based on the German Scales of Training - Well-defined standards at every stage allow you to measure your progress, giving you confidence and offering guidance if you encounter any problems
- Clear instruction from experienced teacher Susan McBane helps improve performance regardless of your level or chosen discipline
This step-by-step training program for horse and rider blends one of the most successful schooling systems in the world with the cutting-edge principles of equitation science. The highly respected German Scales of Training, which aims for lightness and self-carriage in a calm, settled horse is the basis of the system which, combined with clear instruction, makes the technique accessible to anyone. Practical explanation and exercises provide a framework for achieving rhythm, looseness, contact, impulsion, straightness and collection -- the six elements of a schooled horse....
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Horses and humans share a long, harmonious relationship stretching back thousands of years. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to know precisely what every swish of a tail, every stomp of a hoof, and every whinny really means? Now you can discover what your horse is trying to tell you in the new Horse and Pony Body Language Phrasebook. Though horses and ponies cannot speak, they have evolved a highly sophisticated system for communication. All of the most common behavioral traits of horses and ponies are examined in detail. Learn to recognize when your horse is happy, stressed, afraid, bored, or in pain. Each spread in this practical reference book features one of 100 ways to read your horse’s signals, including postures, gestures, and sounds. Full of beautiful full-color photographs and insightful advice written by animal psychologists and behavior experts. ...
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