The Complete Training of Horse and Rider

For over a quarter of a century, Colonel Alois Podhajsky was the Director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, home of the famous white Lipizzaner stallions whose remarkable performances have thrilled audiences throughout the world. Now for the first time, Col. Podhajsky has set forth explicitly and in practical, instructive fashion the step-by-step methods of training both horse and rider that are used at the School and that are the applicable foundations of all good horsemanship, for their purpose is to develop the natural abilities of the horse and to make riding a graceful, pleasurable experience.

The result is a definitive book on classical hrosemanship from first introduction to the ultimate in haute ecole - a record and a manual of the fundamental prinicples, the techniques, and the practice of the art of riding. It is a book that belongs in every horseman's library.