Equestrian Riding

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After everything she’s suffered—and everyone she’s lost—Mia Ledger wants nothing more than peace. She spends her days teaching riding lessons and raising horses on her quiet Montana ranch. But when she steps in to stop a kidnapping that echoes her own haunted past, she paints a target on her back. The crime syndicate behind the attack sends enforcers to settle the score. When Mia returns home to find her barn burning and her horses slaughtered, she fights back with the fury of someone who’s got nothing left to lose.

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.

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.

Show Strides readers, this book is for you. Literally! We love meeting fans of the series and learning about your own riding journeys, so we wanted to give you a chance to share your own. In this journal, you can share everything about the horses and ponies you ride, your horsemanship knowledge, your training and showing goals, and what you’d like to learn in the horse world. With 50+ prompts and lots of room to write, draw, and dream, we hope you’ll enjoy making a record of your own strides—in the ring, in the saddle, and at the barn.

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....

“Discover How To Start Colts, Train Horses and Learn Riding Skills By Following Simple Step-By-Step Goals and Riding Exercises" Starting with foals days old and training through over two years, here’s a training manual that will help you create a well-mannered colt that is safe, respectful, well-trained and a joy to ride. Learn how to CORRECTLY start and finish your colt from the halter through saddling and reining. If you have a foal on the way, one on the ground or have a colt that you need to train, then read carefully…this information will provide you with the knowledge and skills...

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 ...

Tally, Mac, Maggie, and Jacob are all crushing their goals in the show ring. But when a storm causes major damage to the Quince Oaks school barn, the future of the lesson program is at stake. The four friends band together to save the school horses’ home. Can they do enough to get the school stable rebuilt? Or will the barn be torn down, leaving kids who don’t own horses with no place to ride? Show Strides is a middle-grade book series by Piper Klemm and Rennie Dyball about two young riders, Tally and Mac, navigating the world of horse shows at the Quince Oaks stables, focusing on ...

I didn’t come here for her. But now that I’ve seen her, she’s mine. I took this job to disappear. No title. No expectations. Just horses, hard work, and peace. But the moment I see Lady Abigail Lucas, proud, untouchable. I know I’m in trouble. Not because she’s my employer’s sister. Not because I’m lying about who I am. But because something in me recognizes her. She wants nothing to do with me. Keeps her distance. Hides behind sharp words and silence. But I’ve trained wild stallions. I know what it means when a creature’s been wounded. And I know how to earn their trust. ...

Travel to Bhutan, Canada, Ireland, Greece the Bronx and more as you embark on adventures in the saddle. In this book you will find out what it's like to be apart of a "saddle club" friendship whilst growing up in Australia. You'll race the Grey Ghost against your childhood rivalry, and you'll knock on strangers doors in Ireland as you complete your 400 mile journey across a country. This heartwarming book is full of inspirational stories written by a variety of authors whose friendships with their horses, themselves and their friends have formed impeccable bonds.

In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history, won the Triple Crown. The only horse to ever grace the covers of Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated in the same week, he also still holds the record for the fastest times in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. He was also the only non-human chosen as one of ESPN's "50 Greatest Athletes of the Century".

Tally and Kaitlyn are invited to volunteer at New Horizons Farm, an adaptive riding program where they learn about how horses work with people who have special needs. They get to know the instructors, riders, and horses at the program and learn just how much horses can help people—in ways they couldn’t imagine. Meanwhile, back home at Quince Oaks, Ryan has an announcement for the riders that could change everything for Tally and her friends.

“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.

Regan Sternlicht has always had the best ponies on the 'A' Circuit. So it’s no surprise when her mother wants to buy Woodland’s Tried and True as her next medium pony hunter. But what if Regan doesn’t want another fancy pony to add to her string? What if she wants to be more like her friends at the farm: Hailey, who has only one pony, and Jane, who brings along her father’s project ponies. Regan has decided what you want doesn’t really matter when your mom is in remission from cancer. Join the three girls for a summer, culminating in the USEF Pony Finals, where they will make ...

When a colorful new pony arrives at the Pony Farm, best friends Liv and Gemma are thrilled to help with her training. But Marbles is no ordinary pony. She’s head shy, unpredictable, and hiding an interesting past. With a big cross-country lesson on the horizon and a new rider stirring up trouble, Liv must find the courage to speak up—for herself, for her pony, and for her best friend.

Enjoy this Listening to the Horse-inspired book, packed full of stories, lessons, case studies, and exercises for you and your horse. This book is the first book in the Equine Listenology trilogy.

Elena Rossi knows how to sit a powerful horse, hold a polished smile, and bury every dangerous craving beneath discipline. In the glittering world of elite dressage, control is everything—and Elena has built her life on it. But when notorious trainer Marco Valtieri enters her orbit, all that hard-won restraint starts to fracture. He is too commanding, too perceptive, too skilled at drawing brilliance from both horse and rider. And when Valerius responds to him with explosive power Elena has only dreamed of unlocking, desire becomes impossible to separate from ambition. Marco doesn’t ...

The first book in Natalie Keller Reinert’s beloved Eventing Series, set in the high-stakes world of three-day eventing, now reimagined with an all-new recording. Jules Thornton didn’t come to Florida horse country to make friends. With her beloved horse Dynamo and her ruthless ambition, she...

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.