A guide to handling and training unhandled and semi-feral foals in an ethical and gentle way. This guide will help you as a breeder or new owner to train your foal without fear or force and to bring them round to being handled and friendly within hours and days rather than months and years. Applicable to foals born in a semi-feral environment, those that have been traumatised by manhandling or even domesticated foals that are just wary of humans. Suitable for every kind of horse lover from the first time handler to the most experienced. This method will become the new tradition in foal handling.

The idyllic Cotswolds village of Flipping Bodbury appears to be the quintessential country village. However, when the Women's Institute become involved in any part of village life, Flipping Bodbury becomes a calamitous place! Flipping Bodbury has to deal with dangerous donkeys and spooky stances, with disastrous town twinnings and spectacular celebrity appearances. The WI and the rest of the village embrace it, with the help of a few alcoholic beverages. Whatever the problem, or how obscure the situation, the village of Flipping Bodbury takes it in its slightly wobbly stride. Georgina Edwards and Verity Stew have produced a comical and endearing set of tales in their novel 'Calamities in Flipping Bodbury'. The authors have captured the essence of country Cotswold life, and have produced a novel that is laugh out loud funny, with their array of characters which make up Flipping Bodbury.

Have you got what it takes to make a successful career teaching riding? Would you like to know how to make yourself indispensable to your clients? Ross Algar offers first-hand advice on how to establish yourself in this field of work and then how to move up the ranks. He explains how to deal with almost every type of client (children, teenagers, and more mature riders), whether they be competition riders or pleasure riders, confident or nervous riders, and whatever their chosen discipline. He tells you how best to assist your clients with their immediate goals and long-term aims, and how to conduct yourself professionally at all times. With essential advice for practically every teaching situation, this is an equine career training book like no other.

Whether you are a novice rider just starting out or an advanced rider wanting to improve, this book can help you to perfect your basic technique. It explains succinctly how exercises involving three aspects of riding-stop, go, and turn-can be used separately and combined to enable you to establish a correct training regime, whether you are starting a young horse or retraining an older one.The outcome of being able to stop, go, and turn with ease means your horse is well balanced, attentive to the aids, and able to work "through his back," and this can only be achieved when you, the rider, have a correct position and give clear aids. This book shows you how.

Horses in Company is an in-depth study of the social relations of horses in the wild. The book discusses how, during evolution, the need for collective defense against predators shaped horses characteristic behavior and reactions. It aims to help the reader understand how in domestic conditions, unnatural resource competitions and stress affect social relations, leading to widespread misinterpretation and misunderstanding. This radically new analysis of equine society is based on the author's first-hand observations, and opens the way to a new understanding of horses at both ethological and practical levels.

Want to win in the show ring? Top showing competitor, trainer and judge Katie Jerram shares the skills and techniques that make her one of the best known, most successful and sought-after names in the business. Covering everything from finding the right horse or pony to schooling and management methods, this book is a mine of information for every rider, at any level. Katie's approach ensures a happy, healthy and confident horse and an equally happy and confident rider - and her wide-ranging equestrian background gives her a unique perspective and depth of understanding. Whether you are starting from scratch with a young horse, want to make the breakthrough to the big time or even need to solve a problem, Katie has the answers. Illustrated with specially taken photographs, this title will be a must for every showing enthusiast.