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 | Race Profiles - Flat2011(Paperback)Unlike form study, race profiling does not attempt to quantify the ability of a horse. Instead it extracts the key characteristics of each race and uses these features to generate a profile of the most likely race winner. This title presents race profiles for the three main race subdivisions: juveniles, three-year-olds, and all age races.
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 | The Boss(Hardback)The death of Gordon W. Richards brought a premature end to a career which had seen him rise from obscurity to fame as master of his profession. This book tells his story, looking at his unorthodox approach to horse training and his success as he twice saddled more than 100 winners in a season.
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 | Trainers Flat Statistics2011(Paperback)Helps punters analyse a trainer's strengths and weaknesses, and highlights normally hidden characteristics of a trainer's methods. This book provides jockey, course and horse records for winning British trainers during the 2010 Flat season.
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 | Cool Dawn(Hardback)In 1993 Dido Harding borrowed #7000 from her bank to buy an Irish thoroughbred horse, hoping to ride him in ladies' point-to-points. Five years later that risk paid off. This book tells the story of Dido Harding and the horse Cool Dawn and their success and triumphs against the odds.
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 | Long Reining(Paperback)Long reining is a means of training a horse at a safe distance, from the ground. It is used for exercising lame or convalescing horses, for correcting poor gait, and for training horses for dressage. This guide illustrates various aspects of this training aid.
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 | Days Like These(Paperback)"Days Like These" is a personal, autobiographical account of one man's passionate love affair with horse racing and betting. It chronicles the origins and consequences of his obsession with the sport and his addiction to gambling on it, through good times and bad.
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 | Riding Pretty(Electronic book text)When the town of Pendleton, Oregon, held its first large-scale rodeo, it introduced a new kind of rodeo queennot a traveling cowgirl performer but a young, middle-class woman from its own town. Riding Pretty examines the history, evolution, and significance of the community-sponsored rodeo queen, from the introduction of this new phenomenon at the 1910 Pendleton Round-Up to the advent....
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 | Three Strides Before the Wire(Hardback)Elizabeth Mitchell takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the world of horse racing by tracing the intertwined lives of jockey Chris Antley, trainer D. Wayne Lukas, owners Bob and Beverly Lewis, 1999 Derby winner Charismatic and the author herself, who placed a crucial bet on the race.
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 | Three Strides Before the Wire(Paperback)'Charismatic, a colt nobody wanted, is ridden by Antley, a jockey everybody doubted. That either could be a mere mile and a half from winning the Triple Crown would be astounding; that the two of them together are so close to racing immortality would be a fantasy...except that it is real.' So ran a newspaper story days before jockey Chris....
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 | Days Like These(Paperback)A personal, autobiographical account of one man's passionate love affair with horse racing and betting, this title chronicles the origins and consequences of his obsession with the sport and his addiction to gambling on it, through good times and bad.
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| My Horses, My Teachers(Paperback)Explores the age-old relationship between horse and rider. This title provides advice for various horsemen.
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| Humberside on Horseback(Paperback)A guide to good rural riding in the Humberside area. The terrain is not severe, ranging from the flat clay plain of Holderness to the rolling chalkland of the Yorkshire Wolds. The "On Horseback" series appears in response to popular demand for information on open and accessible routes for riding.
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| Groundwork Training for Your Horse: Develop a Deeper Bond with Your Horse Through a Range of Exercises and Games(Paperback)Designed to help develop a bond between the horse and the trainer, this book includes step-by-step guides on how to improve the horse's suppleness, obedience and education from the groundwork level. It teaches the trainer how to tune in to the subtle body language of the horse and communicate with it in a much clearer way.
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| The Education of Horse and Rider: A Guide to Basic Dressage and Classical Horsemanship(Paperback)Brings Jean Froissard's two books on dressage and classical horsemanship. Part one features text for all riders who aspire to train correctly and compete successfully. Part two presents the heritage of classical theories of riding, taking the reader through the development of a dressage horse.
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| 101 Horsemanship & Equitation Patterns: A Western & English Ringside Guide for Practice & Show(Electronic book text)This sequel to Cherry Hill's top-seller 101 Arena Exercises presents step-by-step instructions for unique patterns in the most popular classes of English and Western competition. The book's comb-bound format allows it to hang in the barn or lay flat on a barrel for easy reference. Full-page arena maps for every pattern make this the perfect in-the-saddle workbook for riders of....
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| The Tail End System(Paperback)The Tail End System is a way of finding long-priced winners - 'outsiders' - in Jumps racing. The system is based on simple straight forward logic coupled with factual information related to a horse's form and level of ability as published by the "Racing Post".
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| Equine Sports Coaching(Paperback)A vital book for equine coaches. Drawing on tried-and-tested coaching practices used successfully in other sports, this book provides an introduction to coaching specific to the equine environment. The coaching process as a whole is addressed for both the horse and rider.
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 | Racing Around Britain(Paperback)The author set off to explore Britain using the cultural melting pot of the UK's 59 racecourses as his staging posts. This is more than a travelogue of racing - it is a key to understanding Britain and its curiously comical inhabitants.
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| Ringers & Rascals: The True Story of Racing's Greatest Con Artists(Paperback / softback)This true story about Peter Christian reveals the secret of how horse racing's greatest fraudster tricked gamblers out of millions of dollars by disquising good horses as bad ones.
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 | Legends: Outstanding Quarter Horse Stallions and Mares(Paperback / softback)Profiles of 18 outstanding Quarter Horse stallions and mares. Lavishly illustrated with many photographs, some never published before, plus pedigree, performance, and breeding records.....
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