Download or read book For Love of a Horse written by Blyton and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jinny is never really happy unless she's with Shantih, her beautiful chestnut Arab mare. Together they roam the wild Scottish moors around Jinny's home, riding free with only the wind for company"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Jinny at Finmory Jump for the Moon written by Patricia Leitch and published by Jinny at Finmory. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Night of the Red Horse written by Patricia Leitch and published by Jinny at Finmory. This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something strange is happening at Finmory. Jinny is being plagued by nightmares and visions of the sinister Red Horse from the mural in her room. What does it want, and why won't it leave her alone? Jinny must delve deep into the past and the Celtic legends of the Pony Folk in her terrifying quest to find peace.
Download or read book Gallop to the Hills written by Patricia Leitch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken has gone to Amsterdam, leaving his dog Kelly in Jinny's care. But Kelly keeps wandering the moors, looking for Ken, and is accused of killing sheep by the local farmers. But Jinny finds out that a neighbour is keeping wolves to do experiments on, and one has escaped.
Download or read book The Age of the Horse written by Susanna Forrest and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “superb” account of the enduring connection between humans and horses—“Full of the sort of details that get edited out of more traditional histories” (The Economist). Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth—and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. It has sustained us as a source of food, an industrial and agricultural machine, a comrade in arms, a symbol of wealth, power, and the wild. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdote, equestrian expert Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as literature and art to illustrate how our evolution has coincided with that of horses. In paintings and poems (such as Byron’s famous “Mazeppa”), in theater and classical music (including works by Liszt and Tchaikovsky), representations of the horse have changed over centuries, portraying the crucial impact that we’ve had on each other. Forrest combines this history with her own experience in the field, and travels the world to offer a comprehensive look at the horse in our lives today: from Mongolia where she observes the endangered takhi, to a show-horse performance at the Palace of Versailles; from a polo club in Beijing to Arlington, Virginia, where veterans with PTSD are rehabilitated through interaction with horses. “For the horse-addicted, a book can get no better than this . . . original, cerebral and from the heart.” —The Times (London)
Download or read book Horse in a Million written by Patricia Leitch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horse thieves are operating around Finmory. Two of Miss Tuke's Highlands have gone missing and now Shantih and Bramble have been stolen from their field in the middle of the night. Jinny is beside herself. She can't bear to think that she'll never see her beautiful Arab stallion again.
Download or read book Tug of War Classical Versus Modern Dressage written by Gerd Heuschmann and published by Trafalgar Square Books. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German rider and equine veterinarian Dr. Gerd Heuschmann is well-known in dressage circles—admired for his plain speaking regarding what he deems the incorrect and damaging training methods commonly employed by riders and trainers involved in competition today. Here, he presents an intelligent and thought-provoking exploration of both classical and "modern" training methods, including "hyperflexion" (also known as Rollkur), against a practical backdrop of the horse's basic anatomy and physiology. In a detailed yet comprehensible fashion, Dr. Heuschmann describes parts of the horse's body that need to be correctly developed by the dressage rider. He then examines how they function both individually and within an anatomical system, and how various schooling techniques affect these parts for the good, or for the bad. Using vivid color illustrations of the horse's skeletal system, ligaments, and musculature, in addition to comparative photos depicting "correct" versus "incorrect" movement—and most importantly, photos of damaging schooling methods—Dr. Heuschmann convincingly argues that the horse's body tells us whether our riding is truly gymnasticizing and "building the horse up," or simply wearing it down and tearing it apart. He then outlines his ideal "physiological education" of the horse. Training should mirror the mental and physical development of the horse, fulfilling "classical" requirements—such as regularity of the three basic gaits, suppleness, and acceptance of the bit—rather than disregarding time-tested values for quick fixes that could lead to the degradation of the horse's well-being. Dr. Heuschmann's assertion that the true objectives of dressage schooling must never be eclipsed by simple "mechanical perfection" is certain to inspire riders at all levels to examine their riding, their riding goals, and the techniques they employ while pursuing them.
Download or read book A Devil to Ride written by Patricia Leitch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jinny Manders is not the typical pony book heroine - she is a scruffy, wilful, tomboyish girl who doesn't have any social or romantic aspirations. Co-star of the books is her beautiful, wild, Arab pony Shantih.
Download or read book Ride Like the Wind written by Patricia Leitch and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sense of unease lies in Jinny's mind and her darkest fears turn into fearful nightmares that leave her screaming and scared. Easter, the once glorious show pony that Jinny saved, will not survive.
Download or read book Nobody s Horse written by Jane Smiley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley makes her debut for young readers in this stirring novel about a girl and her love of horses.
Download or read book The Allure of Horses written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this technically versatile tome, photographer Uli Weber shows his prowess behind the lens, mixing fine portraiture and reportage with animal and sport images in a wide spectrum of fine photographic craftsmanship. The majority of these stunning images were shot over the past six years at various manors and estates around Great Britain, as well as at the yearly Smithfield Horse Fair in Dublin. In a unique examination of the close relationship between humans and horses, The Allure of Horses takes readers on a journey across equine communities from the steeplechase to the thrill of the polo field to sidesaddle riding through the countryside on a warm summer's eve.
Download or read book The Dressage Chronicles written by Karen McGoldrick and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know what happens to all those girls who are just crazy about horses? Once they discover boys, the horses are history. Or maybe not. For Lizzy, and others like her, no boy, no man who knows what's good for him, speaks the unspeakable-"It's me or the horse." It's no contest. And so Lizzy snips the threads that hold her, however tenuously, to a conventional life and begins her journey into the world of horse sports. She signs on as a working student for dressage superstar Margot Fanning, heading to south Florida with her six year old mare, for "the season." She immerses herself in an extraordinary world of high-dollar horses and ambitious women and receives an incredible education in more than just riding dressage. And she's taking notes. Welcome to The Dressage Chronicles.
Download or read book Dream of Fair Horses written by Patricia Leitch and published by Jane Badger Books. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In all my life, I had never seen anything as beautiful as this grey pony ... 'Gill Caridia and her family are on the move. Gill's father writes the sort of book that literary papers love, but which few people actually buy. And then he writes a detective story that sells so well he buys back the house in the countryside where he grew up. It means change for all the children, but for Gill it means the chance to find horses, and not just horses but to ride at Wembley. But Gill learns that no dream comes without cost. This passionate and vivid story, which takes Gill from the age of 11 to 13, looks at what it really means to own something.
Download or read book Fifty Shades of Hay written by David Ashforth and published by Racing Post. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You might feel sure that a horse is not a Flamingo, a Polar Bear, a Tomato, a Teapot, a pair of Bootlaces, a Taxidermist, a Rat Catcher, or a Flea, but you'd be wrong. Racehorse owners often give their horses bizarre names that would seem to make success impossible. Luckily, thoroughbreds are able to defy such handicaps. A Spaniel has won the Derby (1831), a Crow the St Leger (1976), a Butterfly the Oaks (1860) and, difficult to imagine, Oscar Wilde the Welsh National (1958). It's bonkers. Bonkers won at Southwell in 2002. Over the centuries there have been hundreds of thousands of different names bestowed or inflicted on racehorses, and in Fifty Shades Of Hay, David Ashforth has picked out a selection to baffle, surprise, and amuse in equal measure.
Download or read book Pony Care written by Alison Pocklington and published by Kenilworth Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...An in-depth guide for what is actually involved in buying, owning and caring for a pony. It offers advice on finding the right pony, buying the necessary equipment, livery options, daily care, feeding, shoeing, health, exercise and, when the time comes, how to go about selling the pony." -- page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Dressage Training In Hand written by Kathrin Roida and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of her riding and horse training career, Kathrin Roida has progressively gained a deep appreciation for the benefits of gymnastic exercises, particularly those that can be taught to the horse from the ground. "In-hand" training has long been used to help develop the dressage horse, conditioning and suppling his body while at the same time preparing his mind to grasp the movements that may eventually be expected. Roida relies on these techniques when working with young horses, which she prepares for under-saddle training with exercises first learned on the ground, improving balance and enhancing confidence by refining the horse's sense of his body and where it is in space. Roida also uses in-hand techniques to vary the training of the fully schooled riding horse and to solve problems that may be more safely dealt with from the ground. In this book she details her methods, sharing the stories of a number of horses of different ages, breeds, and training backgrounds, and demonstrating the steps to teaching them: shoulder-in, travers, renvers, pirouettes, half-pass, piaffe, passage, canter work, the Spanish walk, and much more. Throughout her conscientious attention to what is best for the horse ensures that not only do the lessons result in a horse that is healthy in body but also one that is healthy in mind and happy in his work.
Download or read book Cartoons from the Horse s Mouth written by Vicky Oakey and published by Kenilworth Press. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publishers of the best-selling Horse Lover's Joke Book comes Cartoons From the Horse's Mouth. If you have ever wondered what your horse or pony talks about when you are not around, then this book is for you! 101 hilarious cartoons featuring their views on everything from rugs to hay bags, grooming to jumping and lots more.
