Horse Sports category: 686 books
by Jec Aristotle Ballou
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Dressage is the ultimate achievement of oneness between horse and rider. Featuring a full arena diagram and step-by-step instructions for each exercise, this sturdy book is designed to allow the rider to hang it on a hook and refer to it from the saddle. You’ll learn how to improve your riding position;...
Riding Fear Free
Help for Fearful Riders and Their Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Are you a fearful rider? Have you been searching for help in overcoming your fear so that you can finally achieve your horseback riding dreams? Or are you a riding instructor or horse trainer who struggles to convince fearful students that they can ride with confidence? If so, Riding Fear Free can...
by Linda Allen, Dianna Robin Dennis
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Get jumping! This collection presents a logical series of fun and rewarding exercises that are designed to develop your horse-jumping skills. With straightforward instructions and clear arena maps, this guide can be hung on a pole and easily referenced from the saddle. In addition to clearly articulated...
Ruffian
Burning From the Start
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"A colorful story...Ruffian was nothing if not a heartbreaker. Her story, dramatically recounted by Jane Scwartz, epitomizes both the adrenaline-pumping glory and gut-wrenching ruthlessness inherent in the sport of horse racing."
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The Ride of My Life
Memoirs of a Sporting Editor
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Michael Clayton has enjoyed a fascinating career as a professional journalist on Fleet Street – but the highlight of his career was his work as a editor and journalist in the field of horses, and with hunting horses in particular. This is his autobiography in horses: his boyhood work in local stables,...
Sandsablaze
Grand Prix Greatness from Harrisburg to the Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Thoroughbred horse Sandsablaze made history in the 1970s, achieving numerous victories with his young owner and rider, William "Buddy" Brown of New York. Despite being deemed awkward in his early years, Sandsablaze began his journey to the top of the sport with a win at the AHSA Medal Finals at Harrisburg,...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2018
Robert "Big Bob" McCullough was a hit man for Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. Later he served as a policeman for several prominent race organizations. Specifically, these were the Miami Beach Kennel Club and the Sportsman's Park racetrack in Chicago. McCullough came under scrutiny following...
Foinavon
The Story of the Grand National’s Biggest Upset
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase.
The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck,...
by Declan Colley
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
Bobby Beasley was a champion jockey. By 26, he had won a Cheltenham Gold Cup, a Champion Hurdle and a Grand National. But when he was 24, Bobby took his first drink and soon succumbed to alcoholism. He turned a corner after his friend, Nicky Rackard, urged him to attend Alcoholics Anonymous. Five...
by Perry Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
This volume provides easy-to-use horse whispering techniques and principles that can help readers develop better bonds with horses
Dressage for the Not-So-Perfect Horse
Riding Through the Levels on the Peculiar, Opinionated, Complicated Mounts We All Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Tens of thousands of riders pursue the sport of dressage in North America, and the majority do so on a budget and with the horse they already have—or quite simply, the one they can afford. This means riders are facing the challenge of mastering one of the world's most esteemed equestrian events on...
by Arthur Kottas-Heldenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Kottas on Dressage is a distillation of the practice and philosophy of one of the most highly regarded international trainers of the current era. Having stressed the need for the rider to establish correct posture and a thorough understanding of the aids before attempting to train the horse, the book...
BHS Complete Manual of Equitation
TheTraining of Horse and Rider
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
The BHS Complete Manual of Equitation is the official handbook for all those learning to ride and/or train horses and also for teachers of riding. It is based on the hugely successful BHS Manual of Equitation which was first published nearly thirty years ago and which was updated and reprinted many...
The Athletic Development of the Dressage Horse
Manege Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2007
The Howell Equestrian Library is a distinguished collection of books on all aspects of horsemanship and horsemastership. The nearly fifty books in print offer readers in all disciplines and at all levels of competition sound instruction and guidance by some of the most celebrated riders, trainers,...