Save 15% in Have Fun with Your Horse in February. Start connecting with your horse in a new way! These books offer new ways to develop the bond with your horse whether you are working from the ground or in the saddle.
Horse Agility is here! Get started with Vanessa Bee’s new book, The Horse Agility Handbook.Horse trainer Vanessa Bee, founder of the International Horse Agility Club, says that we need to change the way we think about horses and the sports and activities we so often pursue with them. She sees no reason the horse cannot enjoy your time together so much, he will choose to “play” with you—over, under, and through obstacles, without a lead rope, even when loose in a large, grassy pasture.
Hard to believe? Try it for yourself! The Horse Agility Handbook has all you need to get started in the sport, including lessons in handling and body language, directions for obstacle and course construction, and information for managing competitions and “play days.”
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Looking for another fun way to engage, challenge and bond with your horse, try Trick Training with Bea Borelle. Tricks and games are not only fun for both horse and handler, they can also add variety to a serious training regimen, helping to keep a working horse interested in his job. Now, this fabulously illustrated book on trick training explains the best way to teach a horse tricks using positive reinforcement. Step-by-step instructions are provided for over 25 different tricks, including classics such as bowing, kneeling, sitting, and lying down. Throughout, Bea Borelle clarifies how including tricks in your general horse training program can help improve a horse’s outlook on life and willingness to perform, regardless of your chosen discipline.
“Using Bea Borelle’s methods you can rediscover some of the ‘magic’ of your childhood and how it can change the way you work with horses. Trick training is one of the best ways to make your horse your friend.” —Philippe Karl, Internationally Renowned Horse Trainer and Author
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Not sure you are ready to work with your horse off lead, you might want to try Peggy’s Cummings program to Connect with Your Horse from the Ground Up. At a young age Peggy Cummings noticed that many horses she rode and worked with were sadly inhibited—unable to express their innate curiosity, trust, and freedom of motion—and went about their work in a mechanical, stiff way. This inspired a lifelong search for real-world ways to achieve the “lightness” and “ease” promoted by top instructors and classical texts.
Now, in this long-awaited book, Cummings describes the essentials of her specialized groundwork—the first half of her acclaimed Connected Riding program—along with over two dozen highly illustrated exercises to help horses and their handlers find a reciprocal “connection” on the ground before attempting to establish it from the more difficult position in the saddle.
These exercises—done both standing still and in motion—drastically change the way you see and feel your horse, and radically improve how your horse moves, responds, and goes about his work.
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Or would you rather increase your connection to your horse by riding bareback? Then Riding Free may be the book for you. With scientific research to prove their point, trainers Andrea and Markus Eschbach show readers how they can train and ride horses in a way that is safe, even when using very little equipment/minimal tack. This book is the first step toward your dream of riding your horse bareback, without a bit, and even without a bridle, while still feeling secure and in control.
Open your mind and prepare to discover how you can ride confidently and in control without a bit, without a bridle, without a saddle—even without all three! In fact, you can prepare your horse to react to the most subtle of aids and the lightest of touches so you feel safe whether you are riding with traditional tack, or not.
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Maybe you would rather spend your time getting to know your horse and learning how to assess and influence your horse’s personality, potential, and performance. Then Getting in TTouch with Your Horse is what you need.
In this revised edition of her bestselling book Getting in TTouch, world-renowned animal behaviorist and horse trainer Linda Tellington-Jones explains how to analyze the meaning of all the physical traits that indicate the horse’s true personality, his inborn character. Learn how to “read” your horse’s head conformation, as well as the “swirls” (patterns in the lay of hair) on his face and body. Linda provides detailed illustrations and exercises to help train your eye in identifying these characteristics. Then, you’ll meet 36 horses of various types and breeds, and see how she breaks down her technique of personality analysis for each one. Linda also teaches you to determine if the horse’s personality has been affected adversely by stress or pain caused by poor health, inadequate living conditions, or a riding discipline ill-suited to the horse’s conformation.
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