Carriage Driving: A Logical Approach Through Dressage Training Review

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(More customer reviews)Beginning with a discussion of the horse's needs and character, "Carriage Driving" follows all the logical steps of training a balanced, responsive, safe driving horse . . . from ground training through pleasure and combined driving events. The authors use classical training methods to help novices and experts alike, to achieve optimum athletic performance from any driving horse. Includes sections on developing rhythm, straightness and bending, impulsion, collected and extended work, and offer solutions for specific problems and training difficulties. Highly readable, well illustrated

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"A book that will take the most novice beginner and permit him or her to progress to any level of driving with a clear understanding of how and why things are done."--William E. Miller, M.D., President, American Driving Society
"[The authors] obviously know their subject well and treat it with much sensitivity and wisdom. I only wish I had this book before I started my driving program."--Sasha Rockefeller
The modern bible of carriage driving . . . now back by popular demand
Widely renowned as the definitive book on training the driving horse, Carriage Driving offers an easy-to-follow, practical guide to this increasingly popular sport.
The philosophy is simple but remarkably effective: If driving is as much fun for your horse as it is for you, he will be a willing partner in the endeavor. With that in mind, Carriage Driving focuses on building a strong physical, mental, and emotional relationship with your horse. Equine mechanics, selecting the right bit and tack, harnessing, and ground training are just a few of the topics addressed.
Drivers at any level will benefit greatly from this groundbreaking book, which has stood for more than a decade as the preeminent resource on training a balanced, responsive, and safe driving horse.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Donkey Training Review

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(More customer reviews)I ordered this book the day after I bought my first donkey. I was really looking forward to learning about donkeys, since I had only had horses in the past.
I was very disappointed in the book when it arrived. I read it cover-to-cover and felt that I had just read another "horse training" book like any other. I thought to myself, "but wait, aren't donkeys different?"
I have now had my donkey for a year and a half, and the more I am with her the less I like this book. I find nothing in the book that celebrates donkeys for being donkeys, for their unique attributes that make them so different from horses (and often make them such a challenge!). To me, it appears Ms. Hodges spent all her time turning her donkey into a horse - would have been easier for her to just buy a horse.
This book was written by a very wealthy woman who found exactly the right donkey and taught it exactly the right things to be able to win a lot of show prizes and become very famous, and thus sell books and videos to the donkey crowd. In most of the pictures, Ms. Hodges does not seem to be even enjoying herself at all.
Basically, I find it a lot of hype with little substance, and of little use for the average back-yard donkey owner who wants to have fun with his/her longeared friend. ...

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For beginners and veterans alike this book covers the keys to training donkeys, emphasizing the uniqueness of donkeys in the world of equines.

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