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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Driving Questions Answered is a follow up to Threshold Picture Guide No 28 Starting to Drive, offering valuable advice and solutions to common problems. Chapters include types of carriage, vehicle for beginners, correct fitting of the vehicle, coping with common problems, and showing. Vincer, Carole (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A straightforward guide for the use and preparation of safe and effective herbal remedies for horses and ponies. Chapters include herbs, infusions, poultices and compresses, essential oils, and herbal hints and tips. Vincer, Carole (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This is a commonsense guide offering advice on a wide range of driving topics, aimed at avoiding common mistakes and becoming a safer and more proficient carriage driver. Chapters include correct harness fitting and care, vehicle maintenance, driving on the road, tips on preparing for a show, taking part in show classes, and eventing. Vincer, Carole (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. From over twenty- five years of experience of working with countless horses in a variety of disciplines, Jane Wallace here sets out an in valuable training programme, starting with a blueprint for the ideal order of basic training to achieve maximum progress by asking the horse the right question at the right time, She then discusses specific evasions and resistances encountered along the way, outlining symptoms, causes and different approaches to correcting the problems, and referring the reader back to the relevant point in the blueprint. Silver, Fiona (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The authoritative system of training for horse and rider, from novice to advance standard. Part one covers training the rider: the rider's position for flatwork and jumping - establishing the rider's position, position on the lunge - theory and use of the aids. Part two covers training the horse. The gaits - lungeing, initial training of foals and young horses, basic training of the horse, improving performance, advanced training on the flat, teaching the horse to jump, and cross country training.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A step-by-step guide on the correct methods of fitting boots and bandages. Contents include over-reach and fetlock boots, travelling, knee cap and hock boots, the different types of bandage, and how to bandage a tail.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A step-by-step guide on the correct methods of fitting boots and bandages. Contents include over-reach and fetlock boots, travelling, knee cap and hock boots, the different types of bandage, and how to bandage a tail.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A step-by-step guide to the art of trimming and plaiting manes and tails. Contents include how to pull a mane and tail, plaiting a mane with thread or rubber bands, hogging a mane, remedial mane plaiting and the two ways to plait a tail.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A step-by-step guide to the horse's mouth and the principles of bitting. Chapters contain the teeth and ageing, the tongue, care of the mouth, the types of bits, the action of the bit and bitting problems. A section on bitless bridles is also included.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This text explains the principles of correct foot balance in horses and the repercussions of good, bad and indifferent shoeing. It describes how good basic farriery, particularly through paying attention to foot balance, can be used to maintain and enhance performance and soundness in the horse.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A revised edition of a history of London, first published in 1984, which includes twenty imaginative guided day tours.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Since the discovery of anaesthesia a little over 150 years ago, advances in surgery have had the drama and excitement of a novel. Here is the full, fascinating story of these advances discussed in an eminently readable book. In lively fashion the author describes such outstanding developments as the discovery of anaesthesia and the gradual evolution of the aseptic ritual. Surgery: An Historical Commentary is filled with absorbing accounts of surgical triumphs including the persistence of Lord Lister in the introduction of antisepsis; the role of Theodor Billroth in the development of abdominal surgery; the unmasking of appendicitis by the Harvard pathologist, Reginald Fitz, the brilliance of Harvey Cushing in establishing neurosurgery; the initiative of Sir Harold Gillies in making plastic surgery a speciality; and the work of Halsted in the surgery of hernia and cancer of the breast. The surgery of warfare is reviewed showing not only how it led to progress in civilian practice but also how lessons are all too easily forgotten. This revised and enlarged edition contains much new material particularly on abdominal surgery - the sphere of the 'general' surgeon - and a full bibliography of some 800 entries.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A step-by-step guide on correct and comfortable tack fitting, with advice on common problems and how to avoid them. Chapters cover all aspects from headcollars and halters, bridles and bits, saddles, girths and numnahs to lungeing equipment and care of tack.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A step-by-step guide on correct and comfortable tack fitting, with advice on common problems and how to avoid them. Chapters cover all aspects from headcollars and halters, bridles and bits, saddles, girths and numnahs to lungeing equipment and care of tack.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. This reference manual includes information on developments in horse care and management practices. Written in note form for easy access, it provides revision notes for BHS exam students, and basic knowledge for every owner-rider.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. From over twenty- five years of experience of working with countless horses in a variety of disciplines, Jane Wallace here sets out an in valuable training programme, starting with a blueprint for the ideal order of basic training to achieve maximum progress by asking the horse the right question at the right time, She then discusses specific evasions and resistances encountered along the way, outlining symptoms, causes and different approaches to correcting the problems, and referring the reader back to the relevant point in the blueprint. Silver, Fiona (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The authoritative system of training for horse and rider, from novice to advance standard. Part one covers training the rider: the rider's position for flatwork and jumping - establishing the rider's position, position on the lunge - theory and use of the aids. Part two covers training the horse. The gaits - lungeing, initial training of foals and young horses, basic training of the horse, improving performance, advanced training on the flat, teaching the horse to jump, and cross country training.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Driving Questions Answered is a follow up to Threshold Picture Guide No 28 Starting to Drive, offering valuable advice and solutions to common problems. Chapters include types of carriage, vehicle for beginners, correct fitting of the vehicle, coping with common problems, and showing. Vincer, Carole (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This is a commonsense guide offering advice on a wide range of driving topics, aimed at avoiding common mistakes and becoming a safer and more proficient carriage driver. Chapters include correct harness fitting and care, vehicle maintenance, driving on the road, tips on preparing for a show, taking part in show classes, and eventing. Vincer, Carole (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A straightforward guide for the use and preparation of safe and effective herbal remedies for horses and ponies. Chapters include herbs, infusions, poultices and compresses, essential oils, and herbal hints and tips. Vincer, Carole (illustratore).

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The German National Equestrian Federation riding and driving system recommended by the BHS.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A step-by-step guide to building your own show jumps and cross country fences. Chapters include various types of show jumps, jumping course plans, basic construction and ditches, banks, steps and water.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The German National Equestrian Federation riding and driving system recommended by the BHS.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. For riders at all levels, Carl Hester and Bernadette Faurie aim to make dressage training accessible with step-by-step guides for improving the horse's paces, riding dressage movements, and competing. Essentially this book is about every rider making the most of his or her potential and, in the process, producing a horse that is more pleasing to ride and more athletic in its body. The book offers advice on training all types of horse and in everyday language, explains how to set about improving the horse's paces and suppleness, whilst keeping him happy and enthusiastic in his work. It describes how to ride dressage movements, from simple circles to flying changes, and pointing out common mistakes and how to correct them. Carl Hester is seen, in over more than 100 specially shot photographs, schooling his horses at home, bringing on youngsters and fine-tuning the more experienced animals.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. From an expert, all the tips involved in preparing horse and rider for the show ring are in this picture guide. Chapters range from choosing the right class and horse and rider preparation to arriving at the show and competing in the ring.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. From an expert, all the tips involved in preparing horse and rider for the show ring are in this picture guide. Chapters range from choosing the right class and horse and rider preparation to arriving at the show and competing in the ring.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A step-by-step guide on the correct methods of fitting boots and bandages. Contents include over-reach and fetlock boots, travelling, knee cap and hock boots, the different types of bandage, and how to bandage a tail.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A step-by-step guide on the correct methods of fitting boots and bandages. Contents include over-reach and fetlock boots, travelling, knee cap and hock boots, the different types of bandage, and how to bandage a tail.