Trail Training for the Horse & Rider; Practical Advice for Recreational Riders

Author: Judi Daly
 
Love trail riding but not sure how to get started? Having problems getting a horse to cross water or bridges? Daly starts with the characteristics of a good trail horse, and proceeds to trail equipment, safety, crossing obstacles, and finding places to ride. Excellent for beginning trail riders or anyone needing a good reference on trail horses.
 
  
AUTHOR’S BIO
 
Judi Daly has been an avid trail rider for many years, and routinely rides more than 1,000 miles on trail each year. In 1998, she was ranked in the top ten trail mile holders statewide for the Ohio Horse Council. When Judi first started trail riding, she found out the hard way that it was more than just hopping on a horse and cantering off into the sunset. She began to search for information of training her horses for the trail, but found little of help. Determined to learn as much as she could in order to trail ride successfully, she developed a program to teach her horses to be dependable and happy mounts. Her journey involved both retraining problem horses and training green horses from scratch.
 
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Contents
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
Section I—Riding on the Trail
 
1 Why Trail Ride?
 
2 Preparing to Ride
 
3 Riding Alone and in Groups
 
4 Riding Through Obstacles
 
5 Riding in Traffic
 
6 Crossing Water
 
7 Riding in Summer
 
8 Riding in Cold Weather
 
9 Handling Trail Emergencies
 
10 Conditioning the Pleasure Horse
 
Section II—Training the Trail Horse
 
11 Starting the Young Trail Horse
 
12 The First Trail Rides
 
13 Further Training
 
14 Retraining the Runaway
 
15 Retraining the Balky or Barn Sour Horse
 
16 Retraining the Horse that Prances or Rears
 
17 Retraining the Horse that Bucks or Spooks
  
Conclusion
 
Bibliography
 
Other Sources of Information
 
About the Author