Starting and Running Your Own Horse Business

Starting and Running Your Own Horse Business

by Mary Ashby Mc Donald (Author)

Synopsis

Now, for the first time, this best-seller has been fully updated and revised. Starting & Running Your Own Horse Business includes an expanded section on safety, tips for operating a riding school or horse camp, strategies for launching a carriage business, tax and insurance advice, and suggestions from successful equestrian entrepreneurs and enterprises. The author, a veterinarian, offers instructions for developing a herd health plan, encouraging readers to practice good preventive care, and healthier horses mean lower veterinary bills. The book helps readers succeed in the Information Age as well, with suggestions for online marketing and resources. The book is filled with money-saving tips, record-keeping forms that can be easily photocopied, and simple lesson plans for schools and camps. Running any equestrian business inevitably involves a dizzying array of details. But with McDonald's smart, savvy, and strategic guidance, it doesn't have to be overwhelming. Now more than ever, Starting & Running Your Own Horse Business is the one book that industrious equestrians can't afford to be without.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Storey Publishing LLC
Published: 02 Dec 2009

ISBN 10: 1603424830
ISBN 13: 9781603424837

Media Reviews

Be sure to pick up...Starting & Running Your Own Horse Business. You'll be hooked from the opening chapters on logos, barn colors, and business card designs, through the appendices full of handy forms, schedules and contact information. In between you'll find detailed information on management, riding programs, boarding, leasing, breeding, buying/selling, cost-cutting, and more. - Horse & Rider magazine

...helps the horseman become more aware of his responsibilities as business manager and owner. - Western Horseman

...sound suggestions to the horseman-turned-businessman translate what's going on at the barn into generally accepted accounting principles... - Western Horseman

Author Bio
Author Mary Ashby McDonald holds a B.S. in Animal Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is the former manager of the 460-acre Medway Ranch in Austin, Texas.