Breaking a Horse to Harness: A Step-by-Step Guide

Sallie Walrond's classic work on horse training has been revised, enlarged, and updated with a new series of step-by-step color photographs by Anthony Reynolds. It covers basic lungeing and bitting techniques, introduces harness and vehicle, and demonstrates how to produce a horse that goes willingly and happily in harness. Safety is a priority, and training for road work is included. The author's lucid, easy-to-follow text provides all the necessary information for any averagely competent rider to train a horse successfully.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 21 March 2022
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd

In this completely revised, expanded, and updated edition of Sallie Walrond's classic work, a new series of step-by-step color photographs, taken especially for the book by talented equestrian photographer Anthony Reynolds, takes the reader through basic lungeing and bitting techniques, shows the correct way to introduce both harness and vehicle, and demonstrates, through the author's own tried and tested methods, the way to produce an animal that will go willingly and happily in harness. Safety is a priority at every stage, and training for road work is included. The author's lucid, easy-to-follow text provides all the necessary information to enable any averagely competent rider to train a horse to go in harness with success, whether the animal concerned is an unbroken two-year-old or an outgrown family pony.

In this completely revised, expanded, and updated edition of Sallie Walrond's classic work, a new series of step-by-step color photographs, taken especially for the book by talented equestrian photographer Anthony Reynolds, takes the reader through basic lungeing and bitting techniques, shows the correct way to introduce both harness and vehicle, and demonstrates, through the author's own tried and tested methods, the way to produce an animal that will go willingly and happily in harness. Safety is a priority at every stage, and training for road work is included. The author's lucid, easy-to-follow text provides all the necessary information to enable any averagely competent rider to train a horse to go in harness with success, whether the animal concerned is an unbroken two-year-old or an outgrown family pony.

Weight: 414g
Dimension: 192 x 245 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781908809995