T
eaching Yourself to Train Your Horse:
Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse [Hardcover]
Want a quiet, willing horse that likes you and does what you ask?
Read this book and teach yourself to do these things:
• Positive Imprinting: Let your newborn foal imprint itself on you rather than forcing it. It’s easier, it doesn’t take any longer, and it’s enjoyable for both you and the foal.
• Use Soft Touches from the Start: Gentle your young horse by teaching yourself to be patient, predictable, and not pushy.
• Plan the Use of Restraints: Plan use of physical and social restraints so as to keep your horse calm and prevent wrecks.
• Loose Lead Training: Teach your young, inexperienced horse to follow you without the lead rope ever being tight.
• Power Leading: Hustle your pushy, experienced horse into being safer and nicer in everything you do with it.
• Gentle Sacking Out: Set up your horse to be quiet when ridden, and responsive to reining, before you ever get on.
• Maximize Rewards and Minimize Punishment in everything you do with your horse.
SPECIAL FEATURES
• emphasis on simple, inexpensive training methods and equipment
• coverage from newborn foal to comfortable riding horse
• 337 color illustrations create a training book within a training book
• illustrations are of young inexperienced horses during actual training sequences
• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Woodlane Farm Books (February 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971231400
• ISBN-13: 978-0971231405
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
Playin' Cowboy: The Coontail Blue and Other Horse Tales
This book is a lifetime accumulation of stories, essays, verses, songs, and drawings by the author of Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse. Included is a wide diversity of horse-human enterprises: reining, cattle cutting, racing, pleasure, and speedhorse competitions; buying, selling, hauling, training, horsemanship, handling cattle, recreational riding, horse social behavior; and tales about horse farming in mid-western United States in the early twentieth century. There are serious and sad stories that may elicit a tear, light-hearted ones likely to make the reader chuckle, and accounts of famous horses and horse events, including a heralded 1855 race in Texas between a Quarter horse and a Thoroughbred, and a heroic 1781 ride in Virginia by an early American patriot.
The Cover Illustration was inspired by the 1995 winning run of Randy Paul of Cave Creek, Arizona, in the Freestyle Class of the National Reining Horse Association Futurity in Oklahoma City.
• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Woodlane Farm Books (April 6, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971231443
• ISBN-13: 978-0971231443
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds