Horse Sports category: 686 books
Practical Horse Massage
Techniques For Loosening And Stretching Muscles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
"Practical Horse Massage puts massage techniques and stretching exercises into
perspective and is easy to learn."--Alaska Horse Journal
"If you've ever thought that massage or stretching could benefit your horse, Practical Horse Massage is an easy, but thorough read."--Horse Illustrated
"Well...
by Candace Carrabus
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Keeping a job for one year shouldn't be this hard. Vi's sworn off whipped cream, her favorite bra is strung on a tomato plant, and ghost horse Wastrel has galloped back into her nights...
Vi's kept her attitude in check--at least on the outside--and kept her job. So far, so good. The mysterious...
by Marty Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
‘This day we were going to let the horses go. They’d been working for a while and it was their turn to have a spell. Old Alf Turner came down there watching the blokes tying their horses’ legs up. And he seen me get my horse and bring him up – just drop the reins on the ground and the horse...
Renegade Champion
The Unlikely Rise of Fitzrada
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
“If you buy that horse, you’re buying your daughter’s death warrant,” Jane Pohl’s father was warned at the army barracks in the spring of 1941. But the potential that his teenage daughter Jane saw in the small, temperamental Thoroughbred was enough to convince him otherwise.
Earlier...
by Richard Eng
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
How to enjoy a day at the races-and bet to win!
The last two years have seen a record number of Americans tune in for climatic Triple Crown races featuring Smarty Jones and Funny Cide; in 2004, television viewership jumped a whopping 61 percent over the record set in 2003, and the Belmont Stakes race...
Bones
Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border—and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy
José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would...
Teaching Your Horse to Overcome Fears
(Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-280)
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
"De-Spook" Your Horse
An umbrella opening, a tree branch creaking, a tarp flapping in the wind, a dusty shadow in the back of the barn -- what seems benign to the human eye often terrifies a horse. His immediate response? Screech to a halt, buck, twirl, and run like the dickens! What can...
by Jean-Claude Racinet
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Jean-Claude Racinet has devoted his life to the vindication of "L'equitation de L'egerete" (riding in lightness) which fosters balance by relaxing the horse-more so his mouth-excluding force in the wielding of the aids. Also written by Racinet:Total Horsemanship, Racinet Explains Baucher This practical...
The Great Match Race
When North Met South in America's First Sports Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
The Great Match Race is a captivating account of America's first sports spectacle, a horse race that pitted North against South in three grueling heats. On a bright afternoon in May 1823, an unprecedented sixty thousand people showed up to watch two horses run the equivalent of nine Kentucky Derbys...
The United States Pony Clubs Manual of Horsemanship
Book 3: Advanced Horsemanship HB - A Levels
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Updated and enhanced information on the most recent topics added to the Pony Club curriculum, including land conservation, horse health and safety, nutrition and veterinary topics, better organization and easy reference, and a full update of critical developments in riding, instruction, and competition.
This...
Citation
In a Class by Himself
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2003
When Citation (1945-1970) retired in mid-1951, he was horseracing's first and, to that point, only millionaire racehorse. Following his 1948 triumphs at the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont in 1948, it would be twenty-five years before another horse (Secreteriat) would again wear the coveted...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
An incident of horse doping at a stable inside Jamaica Racetrack in 1938 brought to mind the laxity with which the sport of horse racing was addressing the doping issue. By the early 20th Century jockey clubs and other organizations had clamped down on horse doping. However by the early 1930s the...
by Michael Haskett
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Horse Racing: Gamble & Win is based on the author’s 25-plus years in gambling and betting on thoroughbred horse races. He has bet on horses in the:•U.S•Canada•Mexico•England•Germany•The Middle and Far EastHe has bet at tracks and race books, and has been computer betting for the...
The Kentucky Derby
How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting Event
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Each year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "greatest two minutes in sports," the Kentucky Derby. No American sporting event can claim the history, tradition, or pageantry that the Kentucky...