A guide to grooming and how it can help keep horse and ponies healthy and looking their best.Includes:* Reasons for grooming* Basic grooming kits* Care of the feet* Quartering and full grooming* Wisping and banging* Cleaning the sheath* Dealing with a muddy horse or pony* Setting fair for the night

A guide to the practical aspects of keeping a pony at grass. Includes:* Different pony types* Feeding* Health and well-being* Exercise and fitness* The seasons, benefits and problems* Good and bad fields* Basic land management* Suitable rugs and headcollars* Grooming* Catching and safe handling* Security

An illustrated guide to progressive schooling exercises, designed to improve suppleness, balance, strength and agility and to enhance the performance of horse and rider on the flat.Includes:* Tack and equipment* The paces* Transitions* 10m and 20m circles* Increasing and decreasing the circle* Serpentines* Shoulder-in, shoulder-out and counter canter* Square halts and rein back

Practical advice on how to correct everyday schooling problems in horses and ponies.Includes:* Laziness, tenseness and excitability* Leaning on the forehand and overbending* Hollowing and pulling* Canter problems* Falling in and shortening stride* Not going forward* Tail swishing* Shying

Progressive exercises over poles and simple fences, designed to improve suppleness and jumping skills in horse and rider.Includes:* Negotiating a single pole on the ground* Trotting poles* Cantering over a small fence* Simple grids* Bounces* Grid layouts* Jumping on the angle* Turning exercises

A straightforward guide to the use and preparation of safe and effective herbal remedies for horses and ponies.Includes:* Introduction by a veterinary surgeon* Herbs* Infusions, poultices and compresses* Essential oils* Herbal hints and tips

A step-by-step introduction to safe harnessing, putting-to and basic driving technique.Includes: * Putting on a collar, saddle and crupper* Girthing up and fitting the breeching* Fitting reins, the bridle and blinkers* Bitting* Putting to* Correct rein handling* Mounting and dismounting* Moving forward and turning* Driving on the road* Unharnessing

By a List 1 Dressage Judge, helpful hints for those starting out in dressage or wishing to improve their competition performance. Includes:* Training and preparation* Learning the test* Paces and rhythm* Riding test movements* Arriving a show and riding in* Riding a text* Analysing the judge's comments

A guide to mounted games and the special skills needed by riders and their ponies.Includes:* The ideal mounted games pony* Special riding skills, including vaulting* Games of speed and precision* Making your own games and equipment* Taking part in competitions* Correct tack and clothing

Straightforward advice on how to avoid the majority of cross country problems. Includes:* Lost confidence* Refusing to start and excitability* Refusing and running out* Ditch aversion and combination problems* Horse strong and pulling* Rider falling off* Slow finishing times* Remembering the course

A guide to achieving a poised and effective riding position which will enchance performance and enable the rider to remain constantly in balance with the horse's movement in walk, trot and canter.Includes:* Even weight distribution* Sitting centrally on the seat bones* Correcting upper body alignment and poise* Eliminating crookedness in the rider* Avoiding tension and fear* Developing a sensitive rein contact* Maintaining a good position whilst in motion

Straightforward advice on how to avoid common show jumping problems.Includes:* Refusing to enter the ring* Stopping at the first fence* Spooking, running out and rushing* Turning difficulties* Cat jumping and ballooning* Backing off and losing impulsion * Inability to shorten infront of a fence* Lost confidence* Always landing on the same canter lead* Making slow times against the clock

A follow up to Threshold Picture Guide 28: Starting to Drive, offering valuable advice and solutions to common problems.Includes:* Types of carriage* Vehicles for beginners* Correct fitting of the vehicle* Coping with common problems* Showing* Eventing

The selection and safe use of natural remedies including homeopathy, herbs, oils, tissue salts, and Bach Flower remedies.Includes:* Injuries and first aid* Abscess, allergy and arthritis* Back problems* Colic, cough and discharges* Foot problems* Nervousness and excitability* Ringworm* Saddle sores and windgalls* Splint and sprained tendons* Sweet itch

Practical advice on how to use lungeing equipment and on safe techniques and lungeing horses and ponies.Includes:* The lungeing area and equipment* Holding the lunge rein* Lungeing aids* Lungeing a young horse* Problems and solutions* Using trotting poles* Working over jumps* Training aids* More advanced techniques

Commonsense advice on a wide range of driving topics, aimed at avoiding common mistakes and becoming a safer and more proficient carriage driver.Includes:* Correct harness fitting and care* Vehicle maintenance* Rein handling* Driving on the road* Tips on preparing for a show* Taking part in show classes* Eventing

By leading equine physiotherapist Mary Bromiley FSCP, RPT(USA), SRP. With her clear and simple explanations, learn how to apply simple massage techniques to enhance your horse's performance, health and well-being.Includes:* Surface anatomy * Circulatory and lymphatic systems* Massage techniques * General body massage * Specific massages for different activities * Exercises for strengthening the hands

A guide to understanding the training concepts involved in producing a supple, well-schooled horse or pony.Includes:* Educating the horse and rider * Relaxation in the horse * Balance and regularity * Energy versus impulsion * Bending and suppleness * Straightness * Contact * Collection

A detailed and authoritative guide to using essential oils for common ailments and management problems in horses and ponies, by a leading practitioner.Includes:* How to select oils for a particular condition * Doses and dilutions * External, internal and topical applications * Behaviour problems* Oils for first aid and wounds * Skin problems* Oils for travelling* Quick-reference charts and tables * Safety recommendations

Essential information for anyone interested in having a go at endurance riding, by a well-known competitor and writer.Includes:* Assessing your horse * Equipment for horse and rider * Fitness and conditioning for the horse* Basic schooling and education * Handy schooling extras * Feet and shoeing, and basic health care * The back-up crew * Choosing and entering a ride * Taking part in a ride and post-ride care * Prevention and treatment of injury