Nine Secrets of Perfect Horsemanship - Softcover

Blazer, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966012712 ISBN 13: 9780966012712

Publisher: Success Is Easy, 1998

Synopsis

This is a training how-to book which concentrates on the mental aspects of horsemanship regardless of style of discipline. Understand the Nine Secrets empowers the trainer to solve any training or riding problem, and reveals the ways the six elements of horse training combine to bring about a perfect partnership between horse and rider for a perfect performance.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This book is for the more advanced horseman who is ready to find perfect horsemanship by giving up the use of force, gimmicks and specialized equipment. Don Blazer has been a successful show horse trainer and a successful race horse trainer for more than 30 years. His horses have won at jumping, dressage, reining, racing, western pleasure and English pleasure, and he explains how the style of riding or performance is only the result of successful communication between two equal partners--the horse, the rider.

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Beginning and novice riders and trainers are faced with the problem of having to think of each cue, then apply it. Using the hands, seat, legs and weight together and in harmony can be a monumental task. But with hours and hours of practice, it becomes efficient and acceptable. Finally, with confidence born of competence, the result is graceful and worthy of praise.

But it never reaches perfection until communication transcends the physical and becomes effortless thought.

This happens when the rider is no longer centered on himself, but is a true partner of the horse. They are one. The rider thinks of the desired performance and no more. Thoughts become the cues without conscious direction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Success Is Easy
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0966012712
• ISBN 13: 9780966012712
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 149