Equestrian & Animal Sports Books

The greatest equestrian of the 20th century makes a stunning comeback in the 21st century. Imagine in Michael Schumacher had come back to Formula 1 and won the World Championship. This is what Mark Todd has achieved - winning at Badminton in 2011 and being a favourite to win a third Olympic gold ...

BEATING THE ODDS is the exclusive biography of SP bookie Alan Tripp, a man some call a genius and others call a criminal. With an estimated fortune nearing the $500m mark, his was one of the most successful illegal bookmaking businesses in the world. As a starting price (SP) bookie, Tripp’s l...

Introducing a new approach to specialized groundwork for horse training, this guide provides more than two dozen exercises to help horses and their handlers find a reciprocal connection on the ground before the rider takes a position in the saddle. These exercises--done both standing still and in mo...

This is an ideal training guide with simple explanations of the different jumping exercises used by world-class horse riding celebrities. The contributors are all Olympic riders or trainers at the very top of eventing. Their achievements include World, European and Olympic medals, Badminton and nume...

At the age of forty-seven Mary King won a Team Bronze at the Beijing Olympics. In the two 'Caveliers' - 'Call Again Cavalier' and 'Imperial Cavalier' - she has two of the very best event horses in the world. Mary Kings's success in the world of eventing (now officially classed as the most dangerous ...

Sir Patrick Hogan is the only man to have been inducted into both the NZ and Australian racing Halls of Fame. A horse breeder with an internationally renowned stable of champions at Cambridge Stud, he is a member of worldwide racing royalty. Of Irish/Kiwi decent, his fortunes were built on an extrao...

Horses hold a special place in the hearts and minds of many New Zealanders. Through historical and contemporary detail and anecdote, and utilising a wide range of old and new photographs and images, Carolyn Mincham tells the captivating story of the horse in New Zealand. She explores the cultural si...

Schooling your horse is fundamental to any equestrian activity, so getting it right is essential to you and your horse's progression. "101 Schooling Exercises" enables you to plan the exercises you want to ride according to you and your horse's level of ability.Whether you want to increase...

Vincent O'Brien is a horse-racing legend. Recently voted horse racing's 'greatest of all time', ahead of familiar names like Lester Piggott, the Queen Mother and Sheikh Mohammed, O'Brien won every race that matters in Britain and Ireland over his fifty-year career and is without doubt the best and m...

This is a biography of the popular pioneering racehorse trainer Clive Brittain.Table of ContentsNewmarket trainer Clive Brittain is not just the smiling face of the sport - he is one of racing's pioneers. He was the first trainer to have 100 horses on Newmarket Heath, the first at racing's Headqua...

His trainer said that managing him was like holding a tiger by the tail. His owner compared him to "chain lightning." His jockeys found their lives transformed by him, in triumphant and distressing ways. All of them became caught in a battle for honesty.Born in 1917, Man o' War grew from a rebelliou...

Jane Savoie's acclaimed approach to mentally positive riding will train your mind and shape your attitudes for peak performance.

Paddock Paradise (PP) is both a book title and a concept of a more naturalized way of horse keeping based upon the research done on the Great Basin wild horses by natural horse care expert and author, Jaime Jackson. PP is a must-read for any horse-owner or professional who wants to create an environ...

"The Complete Idiot's Guide? to Horses" will introduce new and prospective owners to every aspect of buying, riding, grooming, handling, stabling, training and caring for horses. Readers will learn about the various horse breeds, what to wear while riding, how to saddle and mount a horse, and how t...

Frustrated by a horse that's lazy and slow-to-learn? Frightened by an aggressive, disrespectful mount? Unsure of how to take your good show prospect and make him great? This one-of-a-kind book dishes out sensible solutions to all these common problems, and more, as Clinton Anderson guides you throug...

When Monty Roberts was thirteen years old he went off on his own to the deserts of Nevada to watch mustangs in the wild. What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life forever. The Man Who Listens to Horses reveals his deep love and understanding of horses. We learn how, throu...

If you have ever wanted to know how to get a horse into a trailer, how to deal with a bucking horse, how to walk your horse through water or how to handle a two-month old foal, then you need look no further than "Ask Monty". In this book, Monty Roberts, lifelong horse trainer and bestselli...

Are you and your horse a match made in heaven? Would you like to achieve the perfect partnership between horse and human? If you want the best possible relationship with your horse this is the book for you. With her practical advice and proven success, Kelly Marks can help you achieve amazing result...

This collection of anecdotes from the track provides a peek into into the world of punting on horses. The columns, originally published in The Age , give insight into some of the big wins, huge losses, long odds and colourful characters that have made Australia's racetracks so lively over more than ...

This is a frank and encouraging guide aimed at everyone who knows their horse could be better. Key requirements of a perfect riding horse are identified and then explored in depth with a detailed breakdown of how to train each element. The perfect horse requires the perfect rider, and simple yet eff...

"Training the Racehorse", first published in 1976 and widely considered the standard work in its field, will prove invaluable to anyone training, or aspiring to train, racehorses; it will also provide a captivating and thought-provoking insight for all racing fans. Tim Fitzgeorge-Parker pr...

Author Elizabeth Benney was a brat of a child. She's completely candid about it - self-centered, perverse, willful, obstinate ...living for her one passionate obsession - horses. It's a life-story that at last faces up to what we must all confront, that's if we're lucky enough to live long enough. W...

This is a fully updated edition of the ground-breaking look at horserace betting, first published in 2004. "The Definitive Guide to Betting on Horses" is crammed with the expert views of many of "The Racing Post" journalists. Among the gems included are: The winning approach to betting on the Classi...

This is a step-by-step training program for horse and rider blending together one of the most successful schooling systems in the world and the cutting edge principles of equitation science.The highly respected German Scales of Training, which aims for lightness and self-carriage in a calm, settled ...

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 ...

William Fox-Pitt has been one of the most successful three-day event riders for many years. He began eventing at the age of fifteen and decided to pursue this passion as a career after graduating from university. In 2004, he had a year of extremes, going from winning Badminton to having the agony of...

The Form Book Jumps Annual contains all the results for the 2011-2012 Jumps season, plus a unique comment for each runner, a race comment, and notes for all noteworthy performances. A full index shows the race number for every runner. This book is the only title of its kind on the market and has a r...

To see England properly, I recommend viewing it from the saddle..' A.F Tschiffely. Travelling through England, and doing it on horseback, is to rediscover both the romance of the countryside and man's relationship with both his environment and his horse. With twelve carefully crafted rides to choose...

The love story of rodeo promoter Guy Weadick and trick roper Flores LaDue began among the rough-and-tumble vaudevillians preserving the frontier way of life in the first Wild West shows. Their love endured through North American performances in the small-time and big-time circuits to the audiences o...

Migrations of fish, rise and fall of tides, and weather changes through the year in the Keys Both how-to tips for each season of the year and firsthand experiences recounted in detail Northern species that arrive in winter, sailfish offshore, and Spanish mackerel in Florida Bay and the gulf Silver t...

Acing Racing is an action lover's dream. If you are an online poker player who can no longer play legally, a sports gambler looking for something you can do at home without fear of breaking the law, or just a longtime horseplayer looking for new strategies and online skills, this book is for you. By...

This book contains 168 photographs of thoroughbred racing taken by award-winning photographer Arthur Frank in the United States, France, and Ireland, and is introduced by a personal essay by New York Times sportswriter Joe Drape. The photographs capture the beauty and excitement of one of the worlds...

The way a horse is physically built--its conformation--reveals a lot about the discipline for which it is best suited, and this reference provides detailed advice on selecting horses specifically for competition in internationally recognized sports. Sport horse breeding authority Christian Schacht p...

A new approach to the classical methods of training dressage horses--methods that can cause the animals undue physical and emotional distress--these powerful new techniques from world-renowned horse trainer and behaviorist Linda Tellington-Jones improve not only the dressage horse's performance but ...

A revised and expanded edition of the existing title The BHS Complete Training Manual for Stage 1, now including comprehensive background information on the techniques,knowledge and understanding required for the BHS Stage 1 exam, making it the definitive course companion. BHS Stage 1 is the first l...

A revised and expanded edition of the existing title The BHS Complete Training Manual for Stage 2, now including comprehensive background information on the techniques,knowledge and understanding required for the BHS Stage 2 exam, making it the definitive course companion. BHS Stage 2 is the second ...

A century before Secretariat, Michael Jordan, and Tiger Woods, Dan Patch captured virtually every harness racing record and the hearts (and wallets) of the American public. Even people who weren't racing fans were caught up in the horse's achievements, on which his owner capitalized with Dan Patch "...

"Precision ...Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Horse Racing" thoroughly discusses the mathematical and statistical methods in handicapping and betting techniques. Differentiations, combinatorics, normal distribution, kernel smoothing and other mathematical and statistical tools are introduced...

For more than four decades the elegant, slightly foppish figure of trainer Henry Cecil has been adulated by racing fans. He has handled countless top horses - his '25 English Classics' include four Derby winners - and won dozens of big races around the world. But his story is far from a chronicle of...

"Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all," wrote Shakespeare. Such words could not be more true than when applied to the sport of dressage--an ancient art still passionately pursued, and onedependent on a rare and delicate balance of truth and honesty between rider and horse. It is the nature of hu...