101 Hunter/Jumper Tips: Essentials for Riding on the Flat and Over Fences - Softcover

Shiers, Jessie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592288324 ISBN 13: 9781592288328

Publisher: The Lyons Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book provides solid advice for improved riding, training, and showing. Balance, rhythm, pace, and straightness are the keys to every great hunter/jumper ride, whether on the flat or over fences. "101 Hunter/Jumper Tips" offers suggestions for achieving these goals, as well as solutions to basic and more advanced schooling problems, using techniques from successful riders and trainers that will improve everything from your horse's saddle fit to your own position and mental approach. With sections on tack and equipment, training, preparation for showing, and competition itself, this is a reference guide that no hunter/jumper rider or trainer should miss.

About this title

About the Author

JESSIE SHIERS has been riding and caring for horses for fifteen years. The author of 101 Horsekeeping Tips

From the Back Cover

Balance, rhythm, pace, and straightness are the keys to every great hunter/jumper ride, whether on the flat or over fences. 101 Hunter/Jumper Tips offers suggestions for achieving these goals, as well as solutions to basic and more advanced schooling problems. Inside, you'll find techniques from successful riders and trainers that will improve everything from your horse's saddle fit to your own position and mental approach.
With sections on tack and equipment, training, preparation for showing, and competition itself, this is a reference guide that no hunter/jumper rider or trainer should miss.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Lyons Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592288324
• ISBN 13: 9781592288328
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192