Susan E. Harris

Grooming to Win

How to Groom, Trim, Braid, and Prepare Your Horse for Show

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Classic Equestrian Grooming Guide, now Completely Udated

Grooming to Win: How to Groom, Trim, Braid, and Prepare Your Horse for Show is the definitive book on grooming your horse to catch the judge's eye. Extensively revised to reflect today's practices, the Third Edition features over 400 detailed, two-color line drawings that illustrate every aspect of grooming. A practical, hands-on reference, it:

• Brings all information in line with current practices and requirements
• Covers conditioning, daily care, tools and supplies, and grooming for shows
• Features new chapters on blanketing, newly popular breeds, and the latest show ring clothing styles
• Covers all disciplines
• Includes trimming styles by type and event as well as by breed

Complete with helpful lists and checklists, this is the must-have reference for anyone who grooms horses for show.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Howell Book House / Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14504745000
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780470047453
• ISBN-10: 0470047453
• Artikelnr.: 23073747

Autorenporträt

Susan E. Harris is an internationally known clinician, riding teacher, author, and artist. She appears regularly at horse expos in the U.S. and abroad. She has taught all seats and styles of riding, and has trained, shown, and prepared horses and riders for competition in many equestrian disciplines. She is the author and illustrator of Horse Gaits, Balance, and Movement, Grooming to Win (both previous editions), the three United States Pony Club Manuals of Horsemanship, and three other USPC guides (all Howell Book House).

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD.
PREFACE.
1 Horse Management: Conditioning to Win.
2 Skin and Hair Care.
3 Grooming and Daily Care.
4 Grooming Tools and Supplies.
5 Mane and Tail Care.
6 Bathing, Bandaging, and Other Procedures.
7 Trimming and Clipping.
8 Blankets and Horse Clothing.
9 Final Touches.
10 The Show Hunter.
11 Sport Horses: Turnout for Dressage, Show Jumping, Eventing and Driving.
12 The Western Show Horse.
13 The Pleasure and Versatility Breeds.
14 Other Breeds.
15 The Saddlebred,Walking Horse, Parade Horse and Other Set-Tail Horses.
16 Grooming at Horse Shows.
APPENDIX I: Trimming Styles by Type And Event.
APPENDIX II: Trimming Styles by Breed.
INDEX.

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FOREWORD.
PREFACE.
1 Horse Management: Conditioning to Win.
2 Skin and Hair Care.
3 Grooming and Daily Care.
4 Grooming Tools and Supplies.
5 Mane and Tail Care.
6 Bathing, Bandaging, and Other Procedures.
7 Trimming and Clipping.
8 Blankets and Horse Clothing.
9 Final Touches.
10 The Show Hunter.
11 Sport Horses: Turnout for Dressage, Show Jumping, Eventing and Driving.
12 The Western Show Horse.
13 The Pleasure and Versatility Breeds.
14 Other Breeds.
15 The Saddlebred,Walking Horse, Parade Horse and Other Set-Tail Horses.
16 Grooming at Horse Shows.
APPENDIX I: Trimming Styles by Type And Event.
APPENDIX II: Trimming Styles by Breed.
INDEX.