Equestrian Horse

In The Horse God Built, best-selling equestrian writer Lawrence Scanlan has written a tribute to an exceptional man that is also a backroads journey to a corner of the racing world rarely visited. As a young black man growing up in South Carolina, Eddie Sweat struggled at several occupations before settling on the job he was born for - groom to North America's finest racehorses. As Secretariat's groom, loyal friend, and protector, Eddie understood the horse far better than anyone else.

At Harper Haven Horse Sanctuary, Riley Harper has built a refuge for the broken, the discarded, and the dangerous miracles no one else will fight for. High fences. Endless vigilance. Horses worth killing for. When a poisoned colt is found dying beside a deliberately cut fence, Riley knows this wasn’t vandalism—it was a message. What begins as a targeted attack on her sanctuary quickly escalates into something far darker: an international syndicate trafficking elite horses, laundering fortunes through insurance fraud, doping scandals, and silent disappearances. These aren’t amateurs. ...

A missing heiress. A terrified horse. And a silence no one wants broken. When elite horse trainer Sofi Reyes receives a desperate call from one of Texas’s wealthiest families, she expects a problem horse—not a vanished girl. Seventeen-year-old Evelyn Monroe, heir to a powerful dynasty, disappeared during a routine trail ride. The sheriff calls it a runaway. The evidence says otherwise. Evelyn’s champion horse was found alone, traumatized beyond reason—and horses don’t lie. As Sofi steps onto the Monroe estate, she finds a world built on money, control, and appearances. A spotless ...

A revolutionary approach to the techniques of working with horses, by a renowned instructor. In Horses Never Lie, renowned horse trainer Mark Rashid challenges the conventional wisdom of "alpha leadership" and teaches the listener to become a "passive leader" - a counterpart to the kind of horse other members of a herd choose to associate with and to follow. Applying Rashid’s principles and techniques helps cultivate horse personalities that are responsive and dependable regardless of the rider.

Many horse trainers, even those who espouse the so-called natural horsemanship approach, take the position that horses who fail to obey a human's request are doing so as much out of perversity as ignorance. That's not Mark Rashid's view. In his words, "If we understand that horses can't separate the way they feel from the way they act, then we can start to see that unwanted behavior isn't bad behavior at all. More times than not, it's just the horse expressing the way he feels at that particular moment in time....

In this illuminating book, brain scientist and horsewoman Janet Jones describes human and equine brains working together. Using plain language, she explores the differences and similarities between equine and human ways of negotiating the world. Mental abilities—like seeing, learning, fearing, trusting, and focusing—are discussed from both human and horse perspectives. Throughout, true stories of horses and handlers attempting to understand each other—sometimes successfully, sometimes not—help to illustrate the principles.

She earned her place. Now someone wants to rewrite the rules. Paloma Reyes didn’t buy her way into elite dressage—she worked for it. Five-thirty mornings. Sore muscles. A plain bay Appendix Quarter Horse no one thought belonged in a luxury barn built on imported bloodlines and six-figure horses. At Étoile Équestre, excellence is everything—and Paloma has finally proven she belongs. Then he arrives. Kristjan Vandenberg: a charismatic European trainer with Olympic credentials, a massive social media following, and a polished philosophy built on quick results and expensive horses. The ...

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The popular and highly respected horse trainer Mark Rashid brings together Western and Eastern philosophies to demonstrate a seamless new incarnation of horse training. After years of helping "difficult" horses, Mark Rashid understands how to build the foundation of a horse's training and resolve any problems encountered along the way.

Lissa Bachner was born with a passion for horses and won her first blue ribbon at age five. Other awards would follow as a young rider, and for years Lissa trained with jumpers, tackling more difficult leaps, and working to perfect her ride. When blindness struck in her teens, it appeared her passion for riding would come to an end. How could she jump hurdles when she could barely navigate through her own home? But success, trust, and love came to Lissa when her trainer convinced her to buy a "diamond in the rough" from Germany.

Monty Roberts' father, a traditional horse trainer, had taught his son to dominate a horse in order to "break" it. But when he was 13, Monty made a discovery that changed his life. As he watched a mare tame a rebellious colt, Monty saw that she was speaking to it through eye and body movements. Astonished, Monty realized that he could train horses by using their language, speaking to them in ways that would form trust and understanding. Developing techniques based on what he learned from the horses around him, Monty embarked on a remarkable career - one that would bring him international fame as the real Horse Whisperer.

In The Faraway Horses, Buck Brannaman shares his renowned methods for horse training and provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into Robert Redford's movie The Horse Whisperer, for which he was the technical adviser.

In the fading grandeur of Southern Grace Stables, where Spanish moss drapes over regal oaks and the scent of magnolias mingles with mildew, Margot Sterling clings to the remnants of her equestrian legacy. Once the jewel of Lafayette’s dressage scene, the stable now teeters on the brink of ruin. Margot’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of Zara Bloom—a brash, young social media sensation with a rescue horse named Chaos Theory. Zara, unimpressed by Southern elegance and armed with a penchant for unconventional training methods, becomes an unlikely beacon of hope for the ...

“When you ask your horse to do something it should be his idea he wants to do it, he likes to do it, he understands how to do it, and he does it.” These words are typical of the way Ray Hunt expresses his philosophy of the ideal relationship between man and horse.

The horse knows something but not telling.... Sofi Reyes has seven days to prove that Rey Bravo, an Andalusian stallion who shattered a handler's arm, is manageable before he is destroyed. But when the horse has a mysterious panic attack, it is traced to a hollow wall. Sofi and her husband, Hitch, begin unearthing a violent land fraud dating back to the 1700s. The deeper they dig, the more desperate the enemy becomes, moving from legal threats to criminal acts, culminating in the sabotage of the horse’s feed and the framing of Hitch. The deadline collapses, giving Sofi mere hours to ...

A polo club. A dead billionaire. A horse framed for murder. When a ruthless oil tycoon is found trampled to death inside the elite New Orleans Equine Club, the police are eager to close the case fast. The suspect? A gentle groom with gambling debts. The weapon? A notoriously “dangerous” mare already condemned to die. But Sebastian Beaumont knows the truth. He talks to horses—and they never lie. With his sharp-tongued, aristocratically unimpressed equine partner Dapper Dan at his side, Sebastian plunges into a world of old money, political corruption, secret pipelines, and power plays ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend. “Fascinating . . . Vivid . . . A first-rate piece of storytelling, leaving us not only with a vivid portrait of a...

You've always dreamed of riding horses. So what are you waiting for? It's time you realized your equestrian dreams and learned to ride like a pro on the back of a noble steed.

Riding horses is hard enough as it is... without the lions. "I threw my long legs over my horse's back. Before I had time to put my feet into the stirrups, we were off! My little chestnut pony surged to life and took off as if the devil were at his heels. I called to Francois to catch up before disappearing over the hillside.” Long ride across France, compete in Mongolia, lead a trail in India, and more as you embark on adventures in the saddle. In this book, you will find out what it's like to be a horse nomad as you follow the lives of 5 inspiring women on their daring adventures. ...

Paloma Reyes only wanted better training for her horse. She did not sign up for chandeliers in the barn, imported shavings, and a German trainer who terrorizes wealthy women before breakfast. When Paloma moves her honest, unfashionable Quarter Horse into Étoile Équestre—Houston’s most exclusive dressage barn—she finds herself surrounded by money, status, ambition, and riders chasing Olympic dreams with more credit cards than talent. At the center of it all stands Victoria Von Richthofen, known simply as VVR—a brilliant, brutal trainer who sells impossible dreams… and ...