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Perfect Partners
Author: Kelly Marks; £11.21

Synopsis

Are you and your horse a match made in heaven? Would you like to achieve the perfect partnership between horse and human? If you want the best possible relationship with your horse this is the book for you. With her practical advice and proven success Kelly Marks can help you achieve amazing results. This book invites you first to analyze your own behaviour and how it affects your horse and then goes on to show you how to develop mutual trust and respect to form a relationship that doesn't just last but flourishes. This book includes a series of practical exercises and tips that will greatly enhance your feel and timing and therefore your riding and ground work skills. In addition through case studies and often amusing stories Kelly explains the best techniques and attitudes to overcome any challenges that may come up in your relationship. Kelly's experience enthusiasm and humour alongside her respect and affection for the animals she works with combine to make this the essential guide for any horse owner.

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Horse and Pony Breeds
Author: Sandy Ransford; £7.25

Synopsis

The many different breeds of horses and ponies that exist have evolved over generations. Their development has been affected by climate environment and lifestyle as well as how they are used - whether as workhorses or to ride for pleasure. This book should help the young horse enthusiast to recognize and identify accurately the different breeds. Each horse or pony is photographed and accompanied by detailed descriptions of the history of the breed as well the particular characteristics colours and markings that distinguish that breed from any other.

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Interactive horse rescue scheme from Mossburn - meet the horses and ponies ...

At Mossburn they rescue and shelter misused abused unwanted and neglected horses. You can help them to do this by paying to foster a horse or pony. Just click on the 'Foster Me Please' button for the horse or pony that you would like to foster.

Sample horse/pony for fostering

Breezer
"Breezer arrived here on the evening of Sunday 11th of July 2004 as a yearling Shetland filly with badly deformed hind legs. The condition is known as capped hock and hers is a really bad case. She came from a breeder who did not want her because of her condition she cannot be bred with. He was asked specifically by our mutual vet not to offload her onto us as we had enough mouths to feed!"

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Learning to Read Your Horse

by Claraetta Olney

Each horse needs either a firm; insistent approach such as a pressure/no pressure method or a gentle approach. A bossy horse would require the first method and a more timid horse would require the second method. Other horses may need a combination of methods.

This is why I say you need to learn how to read your horse observe its reactions to different methods. You must train your horse according to its temperament. A good way to start is just to watch your horse either in the pasture or in the stall where he is at home. Also in its home corral. Observe it with other horses present to see where it fits in with the herd.

The horse I rode when I was a teenager was one of those horses that needed a firm hand. He was the kind that thought he could rule the roost. I had to make him see I was head horse in order to get him to mind me. The horse I have now is a timid horse so I treat her with much more gentleness than I did the other horse.

Cindy( my present horse) was two and one half years old when I bought her. As a brown and white pinto filly she was a wild untamed mustang. She was very unsure of herself and other horses could chase her away from her feed. I treated her very gently in order to get her confidence in me.

The first few weeks I worked with Cindy I gave her two short lessons per day one in the morning and one at night. Later I worked with her once a day. She was kept in a round pen at first and was very hard to catch. Later I moved her to a pen with corners and developed the training method I call the "Y Stance"