Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse: Simplicity, Consistency, and Common Sense from Foal to Comfortable Riding Horse

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!

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