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World-Class Braiding Manes & Tails
World-Class Braiding Manes & Tails
Cat Hill
Spiral bound
$16.95
Fit & Focused in 52
Fit & Focused in 52
Daniel Stewart
Spiral bound
$34.95
The Right Track
The Right Track
Sarah Venamore
Spiral bound
$24.95
World-Class Grooming for Horses
World-Class Grooming for Horses
Cat Hill
Spiral bound
$45.00
Training and Riding with Cones and Poles
Training and Riding with Cones and Poles
Sigrid Schope
Spiral bound
$19.95
Is Your Horse 100%?
Is Your Horse 100%?
Margret Henkels
Spiral bound
$29.95
Acupressure for Horses
Acupressure for Horses
Ina Gosmeier
Spiral bound
$29.95
Cat Hill

World-Class Braiding Manes & Tails

$16.95 Save $-16.95

A handy quick-reference with step-by-step color photos and easy-to-follow instructions from two top professional grooms.

Braiding a horse’s mane kind of comes with the territory—who can resist playing with all that hair? While it may begin as a downtime activity on a rainy afternoon or fun with friends after riding lessons, braiding takes on a life of its own when it comes to competition. Professional grooms and others who braid on the show circuit can make a living doing just that when they have the skills to do it fast and do it well.

Professional grooms Cat Hill and Emma Ford, co-authors of the bestselling World-Class Grooming for Horses, have braided thousands of horses for a variety of disciplines over the course of their esteemed careers in the equestrian industry. Now they’ve highlighted those skills in a book conceived to be a helpful barn companion—one you can take with you and keep in your tack trunk, providing a go-to reference whenever you need it. Chock full of full-color photographs that illustrate every step of the process, readers learn techniques for:

  • Braiding down—a nice, tight, smooth braid is the key to a sophisticated finish.
  • Using thread, yarn, or rubber bands.
  • Properly finishing and removing braids to avoid hair damage.
  • Button braids two ways.
  • Hunter braids.
  • Running braids.
  • Unpulled manes and long manes.
  • Braiding forelocks.

With their expertise, top-tier standards, and trademark clarity as professionals who have made teaching their trade an integral part of their lives, Hill and Ford provide everything you need to know to turn a horse out with professional polish, ready to impress the judges and wow the crowds.

World-Class Braiding Manes & Tails
Daniel Stewart

Fit & Focused in 52

$34.95 Save $-34.95
Coach Daniel Stewart has made a name for himself over the past 25 years, enthusiastically training riders of all levels throughout the world, as well as coaching top athletes on several US Equestrian Teams at World Championships, World Equestrian Games, and the Olympics. He’s widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on equestrian sport psychology, athletics, and performance, providing tips and quips at hundreds of clinics a year, in his bestselling books, and online through his Pressure Proof Academy.

Now Coach Stewart is combining his popular rider mental conditioning techniques with ideas for physical conditioning, as well. In Fit and Focused in 52 for Riders, readers get quick-hit recommendations for one exercise for the body, and one for the mind, for every week of the year. The end goal is attaining full-on fitness that ensures improved performance on horseback, whatever your age, ability, or discipline. With 52 weeks of creative cross-training, and loads of ideas for customizing workouts to fit personal goals and lifestyle schedules, riders are sure to find themselves positive, pumped up, and ready to go, from head to toe.

Fit & Focused in 52
Sarah Venamore

The Right Track

$24.95 Save $-24.95
This is a great handbook for any rider or riding instructor, packed with ideas to help your lessons.With arena exercises designed to fine-tune rider coordination and communication, as well as improve transitions, rhythm, flexion, accuracy, and balance, this indispensable collection of schooling techniques will revitalize flatwork sessions, making them interesting, fun, and above all, effective.

The Right Track includes:

• Arena patterns ranging from beginner to advanced level

• Clear diagrams, step-by-step instructions, and tips for applying lessons learned to outside activities

• Warm-up and cool-down exercises for home and shows

• Varied practice in all three gaits, including lateral work, lengthenings, and collection

• Creative ways to implement halts and rein-backs in training regimens

• A handy spiral binding to allow for practical use in the barn and ringside

• The perfect "one-hour lesson plan" for instructors

The Right Track
Cat Hill

World-Class Grooming for Horses

$45.00 Save $-45.00
When owning, training, riding, and showing horses, there is a certain “look” to which one aspires. World-class “turnout”—a horse in peak condition, perfectly coiffed and luminous with health, outfitted with gleaming and well-fit tack appropriate for his sport—can take your breath away. And while it can certainly play a significant role in a competitive rider’s success, it is just as appealing to have any horse “groomed to the nines,” whether he’s headed for an afternoon lesson or just out on the trail.

Achieving this superior look is not just about clean tack, shiny brass, spotless stockings, or perfect braids. The most important steps are in the day-to-day nitty-gritty of grooming and caring for the horse: noticing “something not-quite-right” about the way the horse looks or moves before it becomes “something wrong”; brushing and combing and trimming a little every day so the horse’s skin and coat remain healthy; knowing how to prepare a horse properly for training, and how to cool him down afterward. Now, two of the best professional grooms in the business share their trade secrets, with over 1200 color photographs accompanying the ultimate modern-day guide for all riders who want their horses to look and feel their best.
World-Class Grooming for Horses
Sigrid Schope

Training and Riding with Cones and Poles

$19.95 Save $-19.95
Training your horse to concentrate on a lesson, bend his body from nose to tail, and pay attention to where he places his feet—whatever your discipline or level of expertise, these are necessary foundation skills. Here you will find an incredibly handy guide to introducing and solidifying these concepts, as well as many others, with exercises using two very basic training tools: traffic cones and ground poles. Incorporating cones and poles in your daily lessons not only provides visual interest and physical guidelines for your horse as he moves around the ring, it also gives you a means of developing accuracy in your schooling figures and transitions. With these exercises, your horse’s movement and response to your aids will certainly improve, but so will your overall riding performance.
Training and Riding with Cones and Poles
Margret Henkels

Is Your Horse 100%?

$29.95 Save $-29.95
100 percent ability is in your hands! Conformation Balancing is deceptively simple. With patient, conscientious placement of your hands on specific areas of the horse’s body, you can bring about profound change in his physical and mental well-being. The secret? The internet-like web of fascia beneath the skin. Fascia is the connective tissue that “holds everything together”—it wraps around, attaches, and stabilizes muscles and internal organs, communicating with all parts while providing structure and organization. But here’s the thing: Fascia is also a reservoir for emotional trauma and tension. This means that when you help a horse find physical release in a “stuck” area of strain or stiffness, you invite psychological healing as well.
Is Your Horse 100%?
Ina Gosmeier

Acupressure for Horses

$29.95 Save $-29.95
Now you can help your horse with simple acupressure techniques!

Help your horse with simple acupressure techniques!

  • Learn to identify your horse's individual "body constitution type," which determines choices of acupressure treatment
  • Understand the 12 main channels of energy in your horse's body
  • Gain the ability to choose the correct points to treat specific issues
  • Relieve mild sources of pain and discomfort in your horse's body
  • Influence his mental health and stability
  • Choose appropriate treatment from a comprehensive list of common problems
  • Use step-by-step instructions and photos to help your horse
    • Acupressure for Horses