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Giving advice on common riding problems, this book contains practical tips on how to improve your horse's behaviour under saddle, making him safer to ride and a pleasure to own. It covers subjects such as bucking, rearing, head-tossing, shying, jogging, bolting, napping, refusing to jump, nose poking, difficult to mount, hard-mouthed, and more.

Offers an introduction to the principles of classical riding, with key exercises on how to adopt the classical seat and use classical training methods to improve your horse's way of going, in hand, on the lunge and under saddle.

By following the essential principles in Perry Wood's Bombproofing Tips, you can help your horse to become the kind of paragon we traditionally call'bombproof'. Chapters include how to de-sensitize your horse, riding past objects of fear, loud noises, reward and punishments and animals and children.

This volume provides easy-to-use horse whispering techniques and principles that can help readers develop better bonds with horses.

This practical and accessible guide to lungeing covers equipment and various training methods. It offers advice on the correction of many faults, particularly in the young horse, and gives instruction on the use of such training aids as the Lauffer rein, the Chambon and side-reins.

This illustrated guide aims to solve the problems that riders may encounter while working on the flat. It explains how to deal with laziness, stiffness, one-sidedness, pulling, shying, excitability, tenseness, anticipation, cantering problems and much more.

Progressive schooling exercises to improve suppleness, balance, strength and agility, and to enhance the performance of horse and rider.

A guide to the practical aspects of keeping a pony at grass.

A rider's guide to a clear and logical understanding of the aids, which should improve riding skills and promote harmony between horse and rider.

A step-by-step guide to the horse's foot and the principles for correct shoeing. Chapters include evolution and anatomy of the foot, the unshod foot, foot balance and shoeing process, types of shoe and laminitis and other foot problems

Advice on how to safely negotiate a variety of cross-country obstacles.

Solutions to everyday handling problems such as biting, kicking, leading, barging, and being difficult to groom, tack-up, shoe, catch, tie-up or load.

This illustrated guide explains how to achieve a poised and effective riding position which will enhance performance and enable the rider to remain constantly in balance whether walking, trotting or cantering. It describes how to correct upper body alignment and improve leg positions.

A guide to correct and comfortable tack fitting, with advice on common problems and how to avoid them.

A guide to the techniques involved in preparing horse and rider for the show ring.

Advice on stables and field shelters for horses and ponies.

Provides guidance on how horse and rider can avoid problems with the various fences found on a typical cross-country course. The book explains how to deal with lost confidence, refusals, running out, water aversion, standing off, falls and slow finishing times.