Horses category: 2325 books
How to Think Like a Horse
The Essential Handbook for Understanding Why Horses Do What They Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In this fascinating best seller, Cherry Hill explores the way horses think and how it affects their behavior. Explaining why certain smells and sounds appeal to your horse’s sensibility and what sets off his sudden movements, Hill stresses how recognizing the thought processes behind your horse’s...
by F. Baucher
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Originally published in France 1854 then translated into English in 1919 by John Swire. The author's methods are simple and practical. He treats a horse like a human being he maintains that the rider can only influence his mount by placing it in such a position that the movement desired is the only...
by Alfred E. T. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
“Horse Racing Greats - Mr. Peter Purcell Gilpin” contain a biographical sketch of one of horse racing's great legends. Interesting and informative, this volume is not to be missed by fans of the sport and those with an interest in its history and notable figures. Also included is a specially-commissioned...
The Longest Trail
A True Life Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
"The Longest Trail carries readers through a spellbinding new work by Willits, CA author Roni McFadden. As a young teen, McFadden left behind the confusion and pain of her unhappy preteen years. She tells of how she went up ~ up onto horses, up the road to a man who could help her, and up the...
by Dana G. DiRicco
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
How the humanitarian act of saving one foal, a by-product of a Premarin producing Pregnant Mare Urine Line (PMU), from slaughter evolves into a life changing odyssey. The unforeseen trail leads a woman from the California Wine Country through the PMU farms in Canada to the National Champion Draft...
Here Comes Exterminator!
The Longshot Horse, the Great War, and the Making of an American Hero
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
The father of the Kentucky Derby called him “the greatest all-around Thoroughbred in American racing history.” Sportswriter Grantland Rice simply called him “the greatest racehorse.” Now Eliza McGraw tells the story of how a gangling, long-shot Kentucky Derby winner named Exterminator became...
by Robert D Bolen
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The Horse Indians tells about the Comanche Indians who are responsible for populating the Pacific Northwest with horses brought to the New World by the Spanish Conquistadors in 1550 A.D. Comanche warriors drove thousands of Mustangs north to their Shoshoni Indian cousins and the Shoshonis, in turn,...
Training Your Foal
Raising a Foal From Birth to Backing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Training a foal is not child's play! It can be a fascinating experience, but it requires the correct mixture of experience, horse knowledge and intuitive feeling. The way a horse is trained and treated in its first two years - along with its inborn traits - determines how it will behave for the rest...
Last Chance Mustang
The Story of One Horse, One Horseman, and One Final Shot at Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Last Chance Mustang is the story of Samson, a formerly free-roaming, still wild-at-heart American mustang that was plucked from his mountainous Nevada home and thrown into the domestic horse world where he was brutalized and victimized. After years of abuse, Samson had evolved into a hateful and hated,...
by Ulrich Raulff
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
A surprising, lively, and erudite history of horse and man, for readers of The Invention of Nature and The Soul of an Octopus.
Horses and humans share an ancient, profoundly complex relationship. Once our most indispensable companions, horses were for millennia essential in helping build our...
by Catherine Hapka
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
For all lovers of horses and history, it's the next book in the popular Horse Diaries series. Born in the Arabian Desert in the ninth century, Yatimah is a black Arabian filly whose name means "orphan." She enjoys her life at the oasis, with sheep to tease, other foals to race, and the daughter...
Horse Housekeeping
Everything You Need to Know to Keep a Horse at Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In Horse Housekeeping, Margaret and Michael Korda (she is a successful novice- and training-level eventer and he is the author of Horse People) provide everything you need to know to set up a barn of your own and care for your horse (or horses) at home.
Authoritative, inspirational, highly...
Stilwater
Finding Wild Mercy in the Outback
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Rafael de Grenade was twelve years old when she quit school and soon began to work on a rough-country mountain ranch in Arizona. There she learned how to sleep out when there was no fast way home; how to track her way by familiar spires and rivers; how to survive off the water that seeped from moss hidden...
by Esther Myers
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
A lifetime of experience in training horses is compiled into the step by step training method. The book was written by Ann Myers and chronicles her daily lesson plans and philosophy that results in horses that are ready and willing to learn and trust their riders in 37 days.