Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse: Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse - Hardcover
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Are you looking for a way to help train your horse? Want a quiet willing horse that likes you and does what you want? With this book it will enable you to take practical tactics out to the arena. This book will help you with positive imprinting, the of use soft touches from the start, loose lead training, gentle sacking out, and allow you to maximize rewards and minimize punishments. With 337 color illustrations of training horses along with 199 illustrations of starting a horse for the first time one is bound to learn a lot! All the horses found in this book were bred, trained and raised on Woodlane Farm by the author, Dr. Richard Alexander. The author has been breeding cutting and reining bred horses all of which carry the bloodlines from the author's founding mare for over 35 years. He's incorporated having a stallion in the true herd situation and studied their behavior. Dr. Alexander is a retired professor from the University of Michigan, he taught over 55 years of human and animal behavior with many honorable notaries. For more information on Woodlane Farm, books, the author or the Woodlane horses check out the website!
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Your book is simply magnificent. Perhaps the best horse book I have ever read. I ve read Henry Wynmalen, Alois Podjhasky, Stephen Budiansky, Sally Swift, ect, and watched my share of John Lyons, but your book is more readable, clear, and insightful than any of the above. I particularly like your self disclosure about mistakes, your insight into horse evolution, and your kindness and respect for the horses....I will want to order more copies for Christmas! --Washington
It is a wonderful book! I was drawn in by the realness of your preface, and I kept reading it sequentially rather than skipping around in the book. The personal tone of your writing really draws me in and keeps me coming back to it. You speak- yep, you write as if you are actually speaking--to us, or to me in this case. I will be greatly enriched by this book, and will let you know of it s migration among those I know who are specifically working with horses. I already have several people I want to give the book to. --New York
Your book Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse should be required reading. My first reaction was, Why didn t I think of that. Your subject matter is great and the picture illustrate what you are doing. The hardest thing about a How To book is to convince readers that training a horse isn t a series of quick fix moves, and that it takes quiet, patient time. Another is that most amateur horse people know far less than they think they do. They train problems into their horses then try to train the problems out. It s never-ending. Your book s strong factor is that you get into the psychology of how a horse thinks, and this alone is the secret of success. --Texas:long time rancher and trainer of cutting and reining horses
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Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse: Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse
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Woodlane Farm Books, 2010
ISBN 10: 0971231400
ISBN 13: 9780971231405
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Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse: Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse
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Woodlane Farm Books, Manchester, Michigan, 2001
ISBN 10: 0971231400
ISBN 13: 9780971231405
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Richards, Andrew F. - photography (illustrator). First Edition. xiv + 257 pp, 337 color illustrations - photographs, 15 chapters, 3 appendices. References, Index to Subjects and Authors. About the Author. "71 year old lifetime horseman; 26 year continuous breeder of cutting- and reining-bred Quarter horses; 20 year academic investigator of horse social behavior; 43 years as professor of animal and human behavior at University of Michigan" 8.5" x 11.25" pictorial smooth laminated boards. A New Book Size: Quarto. Book. Seller Inventory # 009663
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Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse
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Woodlane Farm Books, No Place, 2001
ISBN 10: 0971231400
ISBN 13: 9780971231405
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Andrew F. Richards (illustrator). First Edition (?). Photographs; 11.10 X 8.50 X 1 inches; xiv, 256 pages; Hard cover is glazed boards. White spine with blue lettering. Cover has light rubbing/scuffing/bumping; light red stain on edge of 189-242; does not obtrude into text or pictures. Pages are heavy, glazed paper. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of color photographs. Except for side stain, the pages are clean and tight. An exceptionally well thought out and explained book on horse training, from first to finished. 3 appendices. "Richard has interacted with horses and horse people for virtually his entire life. His father was placing him on the backs of horses before he could walk. One of his early vivid memories is of a scary spill, at age 5 or 6, off a fast galloping pony. A few years later he was harnessing and handling in the field his own team of work horses. Until his parents found out, he was breaking to ride not only the young work horses but the feeder cattle as well. His first experiences as a trainer were teaching tricks to a pony 65 years ago and gentling and starting two riding horses for a great uncle 60 years ago. The first 50 years of his adult life were spent as an academic biologist, trying to understand the behavior of animals and humans. He is a 35-year continuous breeder of American Quarter Horses and still starts the young horses bred and reared on the Michigan farm that he and Lorrie have operated for 37 of their 59 shared years. He is author or editor of a dozen books. In his earlier life he was for 43 years a University of Michigan biology professor. He is a medalist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the Animal Behavior Society's Animal Behaviorist of the Year: 2002. Seller Inventory # 8021
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Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse
Published by
Woodlane Farm Books, No Place, 2001
ISBN 10: 0971231400
ISBN 13: 9780971231405
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Andrew F. Richards (illustrator). First Edition (?). Photographs; 11.10 X 8.50 X 1 inches; xiv, 256 pages; AUTHOR SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Hard cover is glazed boards. White spine with blue lettering. Cover has light rubbing/scuffing/bumping. Pages are heavy, glazed paper. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of color photographs. Pages are clean and tight. An exceptionally well thought out and explained book on horse training, from first to finished. 3 appendices. "Richard has interacted with horses and horse people for virtually his entire life. His father was placing him on the backs of horses before he could walk. One of his early vivid memories is of a scary spill, at age 5 or 6, off a fast galloping pony. A few years later he was harnessing and handling in the field his own team of work horses. Until his parents found out, he was breaking to ride not only the young work horses but the feeder cattle as well. His first experiences as a trainer were teaching tricks to a pony 65 years ago and gentling and starting two riding horses for a great uncle 60 years ago. The first 50 years of his adult life were spent as an academic biologist, trying to understand the behavior of animals and humans. He is a 35-year continuous breeder of American Quarter Horses and still starts the young horses bred and reared on the Michigan farm that he and Lorrie have operated for 37 of their 59 shared years. He is author or editor of a dozen books. In his earlier life he was for 43 years a University of Michigan biology professor. He is a medalist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the Animal Behavior Society's Animal Behaviorist of the Year: 2002.; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 15001
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Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse
Published by
Woodlane Farm Books, No Place, 2001
ISBN 10: 0971231400
ISBN 13: 9780971231405
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Andrew F. Richards (illustrator). First Edition (?). Photographs; 11.10 X 8.50 X 1 inches; xiv, 256 pages; AUTHOR SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE. Hard cover is glazed boards. White spine with blue lettering. Cover has faint rubbing/scuffing/bumping. Pages are heavy, glazed paper. Lavishly illustrated with dozens of color photographs. Pages are clean and tight. An exceptionally well thought out and written book on horse training, from first to finished. 3 appendices. "Richard has interacted with horses and horse people for virtually his entire life. His father was placing him on the backs of horses before he could walk. One of his early vivid memories is of a scary spill, at age 5 or 6, off a fast galloping pony. A few years later he was harnessing and handling in the field his own team of work horses. Until his parents found out, he was breaking to ride not only the young work horses but the feeder cattle as well. His first experiences as a trainer were teaching tricks to a pony 65 years ago and gentling and starting two riding horses for a great uncle 60 years ago. The first 50 years of his adult life were spent as an academic biologist, trying to understand the behavior of animals and humans. He is a 35-year continuous breeder of American Quarter Horses and still starts the young horses bred and reared on the Michigan farm that he and Lorrie have operated for 37 of their 59 shared years. He is author or editor of a dozen books. In his earlier life he was for 43 years a University of Michigan biology professor. He is a medalist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, past president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the Animal Behavior Society's Animal Behaviorist of the Year: 2002. Oversized/3.5#. ; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 14454
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Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse: Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse
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