Horse Sports category: 686 books

A revised and updated edition of a classic work on horses and horsemanship by one of the most acclaimed riders in show jumping history.

With this pocket-sized guide in hand, you'll find it easy to develop and perfect your English riding skills. Cherry Hill's exercises will help you hone lateral work, master collection, perfect lead changes, and fine-tune transitions and change of direction. 

With this pocket-sized guide in hand, you'll find it easy to develop your Western riding skills. Cherry Hill's exercises will help you achieve rider balance, find a steady rhythm, establish energetic forward movement, maintain left to right balance, learn the gaits, learn transitions, and begin bending work.

Strengthen your Western riding skills as you progress through a series of proven and effective exercises. Perfect for quick reference in the ring, this guide includes illustrated directions, an arena guide, and plenty of patterns to master. Focusing on essential riding fundamentals like lateral work,...

With this pocket-sized guide in hand, you'll find it easy to develop and perfect your English riding skills. Cherry Hill's exercises will help you learn to hone balance and precise use of aids, improve bending, polish transitions, develop lateral work, and begin collection. 

Dressage Masters takes the reader into four of the greatest training stables in Europe. The master instructors express their philosophies and practices with regard to training horses and riders, and the state of dressage in the United States and elsewhere in the world. They also share fascinating...

This volume offers ideas and specimen exercises for trainee instructors and more experienced instructors, and for riders schooling their own horses or ponies, and aims to provide purpose, variety and interest to lessons and riding sessions, for teachers, horses and riders.

Take your riding to the next level! Hone balance, tighten transitions, and begin collection as you develop your Western riding skills. In this equestrian workbook, veteran trainer Cherry Hill presents a series of focused exercises that include clearly stated goals, illustrated directions, arena maps,...

This book represents a fascinating compilation of conversations, notes from Nuno Oliveira’s lessons, biographical material and observations about his teachings, as well as a personal journey about what it was like to study under the Master despite a significant physical disability. Within these pages...

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

The author's Ride with your Mind teaching methods can successfully turn average riders into talented ones. This book sets out to simplify her methods with practical self-tests and exercises to ensure success. The techniques offer riders security, stability and effectiveness in the saddle.

A young girl is picked on by the richer girls in her riding class. All that changes when her dreams come true.

This delightfully written book gives readers a first-hand, behind-the-scenes look at what dressage training abroad entails. In this personal memoir, the author chronicles the year she spent in Germany studying with the great dressage master Walter Christensen. A fascinating read for anyone familiar with the challenges often faced by those who choose to seriously pursue a riding sport.

With guidance and tips on modern tackle, fly lines and flies, and many delightful photographs, Little Book of Fly Fishing for Salmon will help you to improve your tactics, techniques, and your catches.