Books

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Successful Schooling: Train Your Horse With Empathy is a book with universal appeal in which the author brings her profound knowledge of anatomy and neurology to bear on the training of horses and the communicaton between horse and rider. Karin Blignault explains the scientific basis of a 'horse language' to which every horse will respond, as a result of which any horse will find it is easy to do that which is required of him.  As a genuine horse lover, the wuthor is committed to using her specialist knowledge to assist the average rider to establish a training programme which is easy and pleasant for the horse, as well as effective.

Successful Schooling is full of new facts and ideas relating to the physical and mental abilities of the horse,and the author explains in simple, logical language how to rider can use this knowledge to advantage.  Karin Blignault, herself a talented dressage rider, also explains why the calssical aids are effective and why various other methods and techniques cannot produce correct results.

Covering the training of the horse to Grand Prix level in dresage, and also showing how correct but empathic training can benefit both horse and rider in everyday situations and in schooling and jumping, Successful Schooling combines an enlightening text with profuse line drawings and colour photographs.  This book will be of great interest to all riders and trainers who seek to achieve better results through a deeper understanding of the horse, both mentally and physically, and through empathic communication.

Hardback.