Horse Riding

Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and handsomest man in the world, is in the darkest of places. His adored wife, Taggie, is about to undergo chemotherapy, his beloved horse Love Rat has died, and now his daughter Bianca wants him to buy a languishing local football club - a sport Rupert knows nothing about - so she can return to Rutshire with her football star husband. Rupert's first impressions of Searston Rovers are distinctly unfavourable. But swayed by Bianca and Taggie, soon Rupert has signed the deal.

Award-winning author and celebrated neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, MD, combines his understanding of the human brain with nearly 30 years' experience training horses to offer wisdom on such universal themes as leadership, motivation, ambition, and humility. The results are showcased in more than 100 thoughtful essays that treat working with horses as a metaphor for personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

In the heart of New Orleans, where Southern charm meets equestrian elegance, Juliette's world is about to be turned upside down. Once the star trainer at the prestigious Crescent City Stables, this French transplant now finds herself exiled to the suburbs, teaching dressage and French to children. But Juliette's passion for horses and her unbreakable spirit refuse to be reined in. When a chance encounter with Kitty, a former debutante with more ambition than experience, opens a door back to Crescent City, Juliette seizes the opportunity. But in the high-stakes world of competitive dressage,...

In the fading grandeur of Southern Grace Stables, where Spanish moss drapes over regal oaks and the scent of magnolias mingles with mildew, Margot Sterling clings to the remnants of her equestrian legacy. Once the jewel of Lafayette’s dressage scene, the stable now teeters on the brink of ruin. Margot’s world is turned upside down with the arrival of Zara Bloom—a brash, young social media sensation with a rescue horse named Chaos Theory. Zara, unimpressed by Southern elegance and armed with a penchant for unconventional training methods, becomes an unlikely beacon of hope for the ...

Have you ever longed for something you know you cannot have? A young teen struggles in her desire to own her horse, despite the financial impossibility for her family. She volunteers at a run-down farm in exchange for riding her favorite horse, and plots how to one day buy Gidget. Meanwhile, she is tormented by the farm owner’s son, and gradually uncovers the mysterious source of his anger. Gidget’s miraculous foal with a most unusual marking helps bring healing and understanding in this book about confronting struggles. Filled with humor and pathos, all ages will relate to facing ...

A feel-good equestrian series for horse-mad kids, teens, and those 'young at heart'. Sweetbriars has been called a 'Must Read' by Horse & Hound and 'The Stuff of Horse Lover's Dreams' by Reader's Favorite. Included several times in The Pony Magazine's best horse book recommendations and winner of the Best Young Adult Fiction award by the EQUUS Film Festival. Welcome to the yard! Come and meet Cate, Tabby and Violet. Cate is uprooted from life as she has known it. Along with her family and pony Odette, she moves to a charming farm deep in the English countryside. Cate is torn. Upon moving to...

In a drought-stricken Texas, Clary Voss is fighting to keep her family's horse farm from crumbling beneath the relentless sun and the looming threat of foreclosure. Three generations of dreams are slipping through her fingers like the dry soil. Just when all seems lost, a half-starved mare appears on the roadside – a flicker of life in a withering world.This isn't just any horse. Promise carries the bloodline of champions, a secret Clary uncovers that links her to powerful figures in the equestrian world and offers a desperate chance to save everything. But time is running out. With only ...

Congratulations on deciding to take the step of adding a horse to your life! By now, you’ve made plenty of hard decisions, such as choosing the right horse and finding an ideal environment for him. But now it’s time to interact with your horse. Interaction can be intimidating regardless of how much equine experience you have.

Twilight Stables is Lyric's new home. Rescued from an auction, she makes a new best friend and learns what it takes to be part of a trail barn. Until one bad horse changes things.

If you're new to the horse world, or an experienced rider, this book will provide you with valuable information about saddles, saddle pads, bridles, bits and more. When you are uncertain how a piece of equipment works this is where you can turn for answers. There is a lot of information for the western rider. Once you have read through this book, you will feel confident taking your seat in the saddle. You will know your tack, what it is for and how to use it properly.

Hope . . . From the Heart of Horses explores and celebrates the relationship and bond possible between horses and humans. Each chapter offers a life lesson about trusting one's instincts, honestly addressing emotions, achieving clarity in communications, and releasing negative thoughts. Because survival depends on being highly tuned to the thoughts and feelings of others, horses sense human intentions rather than what a person offers in facial expressions, which creates a remarkable effect on the relationship between these two distinctly different species.

My name is Aspen Joyce. Once I had everything, I just didn't know how to appreciate it. That all changed when my whole family and my horse were killed in a car accident. They say that it was a miracle that I survived. I guess I have a different definition for "miracle". So I was sent to live in Arizona with someone I barely know - my biological dad who left me and Mom when I was only four years old. I barely got there when I realized something was really wrong. I was being haunted by a phantom. A ghost horse.

Saddle up for a wild ride through the heart of Louisiana’s equestrian world in Lafayette Lungelines by Amy Simone! This dazzling novel plunges you into the vibrant chaos of Southern Grace Stables, where the spirited Zara Bloom is determined to keep her unconventional barn thriving against all odds. With Mardi Gras on the horizon, the stakes are higher than ever as Zara faces off against Trish LaRue, the polished and perfectionist owner of a rival equestrian center. The tension between these two strong-willed women explodes into a head-to-head riding competition that will decide the fate ...

The foundational work you do now is critical, and you’ll always have it to fall back on. Make sure your horse is never spooked in a dangerous moment again…From desensitizing and disengaging to backing up, these are fundamental training procedures you can’t afford to get wrong...and they’re not procedures you’ll only ever have to engage in once. You don’t need to spend years in equestrian school to learn these skills: You simply need access to all the essential knowledge distilled and explained in one clear resource.

Charlie is a troubled child in a dysfunctional family. His brother has personality problems, his parents are growing apart. His father has expectations of Charlie but Charlie has problems too. He is bookish, his brother is all physical activity. As though that is not enough, his parents decide that boarding school will sort him out and he finds himself one hundred and fifty miles from home. He does his best to fit but in life you can only pretend for so long. His salvation is the farm next door, the down to earth Harrisons and especially Jeanette the daughter two years old than Charlie. He ...

Now that Abby knows which of her so-called friends is the one behind the video of her talking “trash” on Emery, she’d love to do something with that information—if only her blackmailer didn’t know Abby’s one real secret, the one she can’t risk getting out. So, Abby’s stuck. And, to make matters worse, she’s so rattled by the drama that it’s affecting her performance on Beau. Abby wants to be as great a rider as Sasha Silver, but how can she do that when she’s making rookie mistakes?

A peaceful mountaintop setting crucially removed from the constant scrutiny of the press, Camp David has served as both a site of critical diplomacy and unparalleled tranquility. It is where President and Mrs. Reagan rode horses through the mountains, where Gerald Ford could take a moment to jump on a trampoline with his daughter, where Nixon rode shotgun with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, and where Jimmy Carter could find the ultimate flight-sledding - only to break his clavicle two weeks before the end of his tenure.

From the author of Soul Deep in Horses: Memoir of an Equestrian Vagabond and the award-winning Tevis Cup Magic: Taking on the World’s Toughest 100 Mile Endurance Ride comes a collection of essays that take place in the present-day Wild West: southwest Idaho. In these keenly perceptive, and often humorous lyrical word portraits of nature, animals, local history, and horse rides and hiking adventures in the Owyhee country, Merri Melde gives readers a look at four seasons of a unique outdoor life. From experiencing wild thunderstorms, flash flood and wildfire, to horseback riding on cattle ...

Mustangs. Mountains. Ulterior motives. This isn't an everyday comeback story. When a failing TV network agrees to air an unconventional new game show, the best horse trainers in the country gather in beautiful Pronghorn Ridge, Colorado to compete in a one-of-a-kind mustang makeover. Earning a spot as one of six elite contestants on Taming the American Icon is a dream come true for 17-year-old Brielle Allen, who envisioned a future as an equestrian for as long as she could remember. When she starts her attempts to gentle her first mustang on national television, however, Brielle initially ...

Vi's kept a job for nearly one year and is sure she's going ride off into the sunset with her trust fund, but ghost horse Wastrel has plans that put everything she's worked for in jeopardy....Viola Parker knows old wounds can fester. What she doesn't know is how deeply they can cut or to what lengths people will go to recover. When she returns to her roots to solve her mentor's murder, nothing and no one is what they seem and no amount of whipped cream makes sense of it.