Breaking and Training the Stock Horse (and Teaching Basic Principles of Dressage)

Williamson, Charles O.

ISBN 10: 0960014411 / ISBN 13: 9780960014415

Published by The Caxton Printers, 1968

About this Item

Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho, Published date: 1980. Hardcover; xiv, 125 pp; 26 cm. Sixth edition. 1984 reprint. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings and instructional sketches. In very good condition with acceptable dust jacket. Original tan cloth boards with brown lettering and pictorial decoration on front cover; light shelf wear to edges and corners; binding sound. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket present with moderate wear including a few chips and tears measuring 1 inch or less, creasing, surface scuffing, soiling, and rubbing; now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Authoritative Western horsemanship manual by Charles O. Williamson (1894-1984), an experienced range horseman, cattleman, veterinarian, and guide. The book presents a systematic approach to breaking and training stock horses, combining practical ranch methods with foundational principles of classical dressage adapted for working horses. Topics include halterbreaking, riding seat, rein use, longeing, saddling, mounting, collection, lateral work, reining, cutting, roping horses, jumping, gaited horses, and trailer loading. Widely regarded as a classic in American stock horse training literature, valued for its clear, practical instruction grounded in decades of hands-on experience. Contents include: Foreword; General Remarks on Horsemanship; Riding; The Seat or Sitting On; Hands, Legs and Body; Riding on a Slack Rein; Cruelty and Punishment; Tact; Training Equipment; Halterbreaking; Teaching a Horse to Walk Beside You; Showing a Horse on the Halter; Breaking; The Barn-raised Colt; Breaking the Wild Range Colt; Odd Horses - The Running W; Training; Cruelty and Punishment; Suppling a Horse and Making Him Light; Collection; Teaching Suppleness; Fast Reining; Backing; The Side Pass; Working the Square; The Serpentine; Drunk Man; The Lateral Flexions; The Trot; The Canter; Change of Leads; Two Tracks; The Flying Change of Leads; Pole Bending; Barrel Racing; The Quick Stop on Hind Feet; The Calf-Roping Horse; The Horse at the Barrier; The Steer-Roping Horse; Standing for Mounting; Ground Tying; Lofty Action for Parades; Training the Cutting Horse; Training the Horse to Jump; Advanced Work on the Longe Line; Learning to Ride a Bucking Horse; Shoeing the Saddle Horse; Teaching a Horse to Enter a Truck or a Trailer; Training the Gaited Horse.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Breaking and Training the Stock Horse (and Teaching Basic Principles of Dressage)
• Publisher: The Caxton Printers
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0960014411
• ISBN 13: 9780960014415
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 6th.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable
• Weight: 22 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

Good horse training is teaching a horse to do, with a rider on his back, the things he does naturally when free and playing in the pasture. Horse training requires deep thought and an endless amount of patience, plus skill and tact. In assembling this set of instructions on horse training and horsemanship, effort has been made to eliminate all unnecessary words and sentences.