Sharing wisdom gained through decades of riding at the highest levels of competition, Olympic medalist Peter Leone shows you how to achieve jumping success. Covering the fundamental principles of jumping, this guide stresses solid riding mechanics and the importance of a respectful friendship between horse and rider. With focused exercises that are designed to improve both the physical skills and mental toughness required for equestrians of all levels, you'll learn how to bring out the bes...

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

Knowing about horse conformation, movement and soundness is important to any horse owner, whether you are selecting a horse, judging horses, or evaluating a horse's strengths, weaknessess, and ultimate potential.The USPC Guide to Conformation, Movement and Soundness clearly explains and illustrates good, functional conformation and movement, faulty movement, conformation defects, blemishes and unsoundnesses, their causes, and how they affect the horse. This guide will be helpful to...

A top trainer teaches you how to perfect a winning position, both on the flat and over fences.Discover how to increase the effectiveness of the time you spend in the saddle, whether you are a beginning hunt seat rider or a seasoned competitor. Geoff? Teall—noted judge, trainer, and clinician—helps you put together an unbeatable package, including:Setting riding goals.Finding the right horse and instructor.Developing confidence and facing your fears.Dressing for success in and out of the sh...

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 help.Riding Fear Free goes beyond the traditional equitation and horse training advice and straight to the heart of the matter by addressing the true problem: Fea...

Do you find yourself making excuses not to ride? Are you stuck in the arena? Do you get nervous/anxious before riding/competing? This book will help you to understand your feelings and give you strategies to deal with them. Christine shares with you the Three Keys to Success based on her successful Confident Rider Workshops. Exercises and case studies are included to help you move forward. Throughout my work as a Riding Teacher I am being constantly challenged by, what seems to be, an incr...

A renowned horse trainer and award-winning author reveals how to establish a connection with horses once you understand their thought processes.In this fascinating best seller, Cherry Hill explores the way horses think and how it affects their behavior. Explaining why certain smells and sounds appeal to your horse's sensibility and what sets off his sudden movements, Hill stresses how recognizing the thought processes behind your horse's actions can help you commun...

This illustrated guide provides straightforward advice on using poles and gridwork in order to improve a horse's suppleness, balance, strength and agility. It covers riding over poles, lungeing over poles, simple grids, exercises with bounces, jumping at an angle and turning exercises.

This reference book outlines the horse's anatomy and physiology and how it works, for horse owners and students. The illustrations are added to by key facts and snippets of information from a leading equine veterinary surgeon.

Greer Swope has something to prove. But even she doesn't quite know what.Always believing that even if she was good enough for nothing else, she was good enough on a horse. History hasn't borne that out. Now Greer's left equitation and hunter classes behind for show jumping but it won't happen overnight. It might even take the help of a new trainer. Enter Cameron Rafferty whose horse is lame, who was fired from his last job and who wants the newest Bittersweet prospect. He's one of...

Talia Margolin doesn't want to be judged and quickly learns the show ring isn't the only place she'll be tested.The challenges Talia face now that Lockie Malone is the trainer at Bittersweet Farm stack up like cord wood. Her half-sister, Greer, is making the transition to jumper rider more easily than Talia can switch to dressage. Talia's former boyfriend, Josh, grows closer to Lockie and confides secrets he won't share with her. Then there's the hunter pace loomin...

You never outgrow your love for horses.Last junior year. As the chance to qualify for the equitation finals seems increasingly more elusive at Bittersweet Farm, will the new trainer be the catalyst for success? Lockie Malone finds that each sister is difficult in her own way and hurting for her own reasons. Talia can’t place over her sister and has been forcing herself to try. Greer is desperate for approval she can’t get. With problems of his own, Lockie is commit...