Two experts tap their years of experience to present every aspect of basic training in both English and Western styles -- from psychological principles to dressage, show, and trail training. B & W photographs throughout.

Training a horse is one of the biggest challenges a 4-H’r (or any animal lover, for that matter) can take on, and one of the most rewarding. This step-by-step illustrated guide offers the first-time horse trainer straightforward instructions for getting started with a foal, a yearling, or an older horse. With expert advice on safety and equine care, the guide covers the basics of establishing trust and authority, training with a bit, training to drive, training to allow riders, achieving different gaits, reaching definite goals, and breaking an old horse of bad habits. Whether you’re a 4-H’r taking up the project of a lifetime, or someone simply interested in training a horse, this book provides all the information you need to get started--and to succeed.

Improve your horse sense! This indispensable guide will introduce new and prospective owners to every aspect of buying, riding, grooming, handling, stabling, training and caring for horses. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® Horses gives you everything you need to know about these magnificent animals. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • Detailed information on the daily care needed to keep a horse happy and healthy. • Smart advice on how to keep your horse free of infections and parasites. • Helpful hints on evaluating riding instructors and what to look for(and what to watch out for) when choosing a lesson barn. • In-depth descriptions of the various riding styles. • Expert tips on rider safety and fitness and the right gear for the job.

This book describes the development of horse behaviour, and the way in which the management of horses today affects their welfare. Horses for sport, companionship and work are considered and ways of improving their welfare by better training and management is described. The book assesses welfare, nutrition, and behaviour problems with horses. The authors include internationally-recognised scientists from Britain, Ireland, USA and Australia.

Horse training isn’t a mystical procedure. In fact, there isn’t mystery in the methods necessary to teach any skill. To learn any skill there is a logical sequence that if adhered to, allows a behavior to be taught and learned. Creating a Positive Horse consists of using positive methods, which in turn creates a positive attitude. Positive Horses explains those positive methods necessary to create horses that perform on taught/learned cues, both on the ground and in the saddle that are systematically rewarded, but also have an extremely positive attitude to their trainer/companion. The system uses the method, ‘Behavior Modification’. This book is about: • Explanation of basic educational methods using systematic sequences that support training horses. • Creating the goals and objectives for each individual horse rather than a “one size fits all” approach. • Training using positive reinforcement— how food rewards creates useable cues, instead of the trainer performing meaningless behavior that the horse doesn’t understand. • Horses learning basic cues: come, stand, walk on, and halt, which provides safety on the ground and assists in the next work in the saddle. • Applying basic training to other equestrian disciplines. • Addressing training method failure, because the trainer doesn’t assess the correct the behavior to reward and doesn’t understand the methods. • Horse case studies exemplifying the use of behavioral methods.

After a painful breakup, horse trainer Sam Monroe escapes to Northern California in hopes of regrouping and meeting up with old friends. When her best friend volunteers Sam’s help with a neighbor’s traumatized rescue horse, Sam doesn’t hesitate to lend a hand. But when neighbor Alyssa Johansson turns out to be beautiful, single, and attracted to women, the chemistry is immediate and undeniable. Soon Sam learns that retraining her heart is much harder than training horses, and Sam and Alyssa will have to decide if true love is worth risking it all.

This antique volume contains a guide to the examining and judging of horses, with additional information on breaking, training, and caring for horses. It includes a comprehensive list of the various aspects of the horse that would be looked at during an examination, and provides information on what one can expect to find, and what the different findings denote. Written in clear language and profusely illustrated, this is a text that will be of much interest to all manner of equestrians, making it a worthy addition to collections of equine literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Age', 'The Teeth of the Horse', 'Names of the Teeth', 'The Diseases of Animals', 'Teeth of Horses and Cattle', 'Contrasts with Cattle', 'Colour of Horses', 'Style', 'Points in Horses', 'Unsoundness in Horses', 'Warranty', 'Examination of Horse in Stable', 'Examining out of Doors', etcetera. We are proudly republishing this book now complete with a new introduction on the care and maintenance of horses.

Unlock the myth and mystery surrounding the current horse training literature. Understand the reasons that make any horse training method work. Use the effective methods developed by research scientists that created the powerful tools of behavior modification that can help trainers and riders create successful horse performance. Learn the power of behavior modification that allows any horse behavior or training method to be explained. Create reasonable, achievable lessons for your horse. Create rider aids and cues that truly reward the horse. Increase desirable horse behavior while decreasing the undesirable. Learn step-by step lessons to train horse behavior. Behavior Modification for Horses was written by a rider and trainer with over twenty-five years of experience working with the best riding masters in Europe. Patti Dammier brings the best expertise of both worlds: horse training and a professional background as an educator and researcher—an innovative approach that takes the work of scientists and explains behavior modification based on horses. It is time to move away from the trendy and quick-fix horse-training methods and learn the basic principles of behavior modification that teaches anyone to create a positive training environment and a method to obtain desirable behavior from horses.

FAMILY MAN If wishes were horses The child's wish: A pony of her own. For her twelfth birthday just as her father had promised years ago. The father's wish: A safe and happy life for his daughter. That's all Mike Whitten's ever wanted. And that means keeping her away from Liz Matthews and her "germ–filled" camp for young horse lovers. It also means breaking his promise a promise made in haste at a time when Mike would have done anything to bring a smile to his child's face. The woman's wish: That Mike would stop treating his daughter as though she were made of glass. And if Liz Matthews could sneak in a second wish that he would start looking at Liz as more than just his daughter's riding teacher. "A wonderful romance. Strong. Emotional. Superb. A real page–turner." Patricia Potter, bestselling author of Starcatcher "Carolyn McSparren is a terrific, talented newcomer who has a gift for finding the emotional compass of a story." Debra Dixon, award–winning author of Bad to the Bone and Doc Holliday