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There Are No Problem Horses, Only Problem Riders
Hardcover
Overview
The best-selling guide to horsemanshipfor English and Western riders
THERE ARE NO PROBLEM HORSES, ONLY PROBLEM RIDERS has stood for twenty years as an indispensable text in its field. As Mary Twelveponies writes in her introduction, "It is the hardest pill for all of us would-be horsemen to swallow, but it is absolutely trueif the horse is not responding properly, we are doing something wrong." This easy-to-read guide offers sensible advice on every common problem you may have in handling your horse, and provides highly effective solutions.
Newly introduced by John Lyons, America’s Most Trusted Horseman, this reissue covers everything from dressage to barrel racing, show jumping to endurance riding.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780544312524 |
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Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Publication date: | 12/28/2001 |
Pages: | 258 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d) |
About the Author
Mary Twelveponies lives in Palo Cedro, in northern California.
Table of Contents
Author's Note | viii | |
Foreword | ix | |
Introduction: Why We Have Problem Horses | xv | |
Part I | Basics | |
1 | Communication | 3 |
Learning the horse's language | 3 | |
Becoming the horse's boss | 29 | |
2 | Basic Training | 15 |
Training the horse to go forward | 15 | |
3 | Controlling the Horse | 25 |
Why horses run away | 25 | |
Training the horse to double | 29 | |
Turning with the leading rein | 34 | |
Part II | Problems Under Saddle | |
4 | The Barnsour Horse | 39 |
Causes of barnsourness | 39 | |
Teaching the horse to be obedient | 40 | |
Training the horse to stop | 41 | |
Encouraging the horse to yield to the bit | 43 | |
5 | Refusal to go | 51 |
Curing specific ways of resisting | 51 | |
Gaining the horse's trust | 54 | |
How to start riding out again | 55 | |
True balking | 60 | |
Curing variations on balking | 64 | |
6 | Runaways | 66 |
7 | Prancing | 72 |
8 | Rearing | 77 |
9 | Standing Quietly | 90 |
Standing for mounting | 90 | |
Standing quietly under saddle | 98 | |
10 | Vices Under Saddle | 101 |
Biting | 101 | |
Kicking | 102 | |
Bucking | 104 | |
Backing | 108 | |
11 | Shying | 111 |
Gaining the horse's trust | 111 | |
The nervous rider | 113 | |
Going through water | 114 | |
Going straight past a "booger" | 119 | |
Training for traffic | 120 | |
Incidental "boogers" | 121 | |
12 | Leads | 123 |
Laying the foundation for leads | 124 | |
Flying changes | 130 | |
Slowing the gaits | 131 | |
13 | Problems When Mounted | 134 |
Neckreining | 134 | |
The switchtail | 139 | |
Using spurs | 141 | |
Mouth problems | 141 | |
14 | Fear | 144 |
Part III | Problems on the Ground | |
15 | Leading and Tying | 155 |
Halter breaking the foal | 155 | |
Problems during leading and tying | 160 | |
Curing pullers | 165 | |
16 | Trailer Loading | 169 |
Training to avoid problems | 169 | |
Proper attitude of handler | 173 | |
Proper loading procedures | 174 | |
17 | Loading Problem Horses | 180 |
Handling various problems | 180 | |
Loading the suckling foal | 189 | |
18 | Vices on the Ground | 192 |
Causes of aggressiveness | 192 | |
Biting | 193 | |
Striking | 196 | |
Sacking out the horse | 197 | |
Kicking | 199 | |
19 | Chasing; Hard to Catch | 203 |
Chasing | 203 | |
Hard to catch | 205 | |
20 | Problems in Handling | 215 |
Picking up the horse's feet | 215 | |
Saddling | 218 | |
Bridling | 221 | |
Epilogue | 227 |