Rider's Guide to Real Collection: Achieve Willingness, Balance, and the Perfect Frame with Performance Horses - Hardcover

Palm, Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570764441 ISBN 13: 9781570764448

Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books, 2010

Synopsis

Collection is one of the most misunderstood concepts in Western and English riding. Everyone wants it, but few people know how to get it. World-class rider, trainer, and clinician Lynn Palm now offers the one and only book that explains away the mysteries of collection while telling you exactly how to attain it. With 40 years experience riding and training champion all-around performance horses, and a background in dressage, Lynn has perfected an easy-to-use system of exercises that gradually collect any type of horse, regardless of his build, and that are of particular value to stock horse breeds such as Quarter Horses, Paints, and Appaloosas. Lynn begins on the ground with in-hand exercises―free lungeing, ground-driving, and lungeing-and-bitting―to gain the horse's trust and improve his responses to cues and commands. She then explains how you start in the saddle with simple transitions

About this title

About the Author

Lynn Palm is one of the foremost and respected horsewomen in the world and was named 2007 AQHA Horsewoman of the Year. She is a regular contributor to Dressage Today, Horse & Rider, and Horse Illustrated, and is the author of Longevity Training and Lynn Palm’s Head-to-Toe Horsemanship. She lives in Ocala, Florida. Stacy Pigott is the editorial director of TRACK magazine, and her articles have appeared in the Appaloosa Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Quarter Racing Journal. She lives in Springtown, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570764441
• ISBN 13: 9781570764448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184