The Equine Athlete: How to Develop Your Horse's Athletic Potential

by HODGES (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $3.24

  This book aims to be a complete guide to developing the athletic performance of competition horses, including physical and temperamental assessment, biomechanics, development for dressage, show-jumping, eventing and long distance, routine care, massage and physiotherapy, monitoring health and first aid. The book concludes with a chapter showing how to develop the rider's athletic potential to achieve the perfect partnership. This book is intended for owners, riders and trainers, and students of horse care and management.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.24

  This is a comprehensive and practical guide designed to help riders and trainers develop the full athletic potential of their horses so that they can perform better and their competitive careers can continue longer. The competition horse of today has to reach ever increasing levels of performance. In order to reach and maintain these levels every aspect of his care must be top rate; success depends on attention to the finest detail. Written by two of the country's leading experts, this book shows the reader how to objectively assess an individual horse's conformation and temperament, build up individual training and development programmes for dressage, show-jumping, eventing and long distance and develop a horse's physical and psychological capacity for work, preventing injury and helping him recover from exertion The book also discusses massage and physiotherapy, monitoring health and first aid and provides a programme of exercises to develop the rider's athletic potential to achieve the perfect partnership.