Book Reviews
By Lyndon Stacey, review by Leslie Mintz
Looking for a book to take to the beach or read while lounging by the pool this summer? Try Deadfall by Lyndon Stacey for an enjoyable, easy read.
Stacey is known for writing thriller novels that are set in rural communities of England where everyday equestrians get caught up in various crimes. According to Bookseller, Stacey is “The closest to taking Dick Francis’ crown.”
By Sarah Montague, review by Leslie Mintz
Sarah Montague was like any horse crazy young girl – riding every chance she got and dreaming of riding any time she was not on horse back, but the “real world” got in the way. After college Montague got a job in a big city and riding had to go on the back burner. A decade later Montague found herself with the means to own her own horse again, and she returned to the horse craziness of her childhood.
Does this story sound familiar?
There are so many adults that come back to riding after their careers and family have settled down – these adults have become known as “re-riders”.
Review by Erica Larson
The United States Eventing Association does all they can to promote continuing education throughout their membership. One inexpensive, quick, and easy way to continue learning as much as possible is by reading every book that you can get your hands on. Managing and Conditioning the Event Horse, written by experienced eventer Elizabeth Grisell-Short, provides a fresh look and easy to read look at all things involved in keeping your eventer fit, healthy, and ready to compete at any level.
WHEN: Thursday, January 22, 2009 • 6:00 p.m.
WHERE:
Maryland Saddlery
14924 Falls Rd.
Butler, MD 21023
www.marylandsaddlery.com
Refreshments will be served (on the house)
Join us as we celebrate the publication of: FINDING MY DISTANCE A Year in the Life of a Three-Day Event Rider
A Memoir by Julia Wendell
Winter Challenge
Author: Emily Dailyby Katherine Walcott
*The Natural Rider: A Right-Brain Approach to Riding*
By Mary Wanless (Trafalgar 1987)
There is no cover picture because it’s not about one particular book, it’s about finally reading that book you have been intending to read for years. This was mine. I challenge you to while away the filthy winter weather reading yours. Unless you are headed off to Florida, in which case, your hands will be too slippery with sunscreen to hold a book.
Book Sale Prizelist
Author: Emily Dailyby Katherine Walcott
Welcome to the Gift Book Sales Barn. This is not an invitational. We offer what has accumulated in our stalls over time. We do, however, guarantee basic soundness, at least one got left in the pen out back.
The brand-new release from Grand Prix dressage rider and trainer Penny Hillsdon
by Lauren M. King
The Divine Sensation. Eventers know dressage as “the first phase”, that one phase to “get through” to get to the fun stuff, right? But maybe a better understanding of dressage basics can help make the dressage phase less a chore and more a joy. British author and Grand Prix rider Penny Hillsdon begins her explanation of dressage as the divine sensation, “a complete harmonizing and blending between horse and rider that cannot be matched”.
Hillsdon displays her decades of riding and training in the sport of dressage in her latest book, Light and Easy Dressage. She emphasizes that dressage can help all disciplines, telling riders to “forget the half-passes, the pirouettes, the fancy movements…dressage is training the horse”.
Help Eventer Kim Meier
Author: Emily Daily
In 2007, three-day event rider Kim Meier was paralyzed from the shoulders down in a freak horseback riding accident. Proceeds from the Sale of Finding My Distance will be donated to Kim and her daughter, Kelly, to help offset staggering medical costs and other living expenses.
Buy Finding My Distance today! (Check back later for exerpts and reviews from this wonderful book!)
This is Kim’s Story.
by Katherine Walcott
Secrets of the Top Equestrian Trainers: Interviews with Tina Sederholm (David & Charles 2005)
The state of American publishing on eventing is so sorry that we have to turn to a British publisher to hear from an American Gold Medalist. In “The Language of Horses,” David O’Connor talks about the use of western training and loose jumping in his training methods. He finishes with a plea to “Break down the silos that everybody is in – I’m an eventer, I’m a natural horseman, I’m a hunter rider – if we are going to make some changes. The problem with that thinking is that we don’t think of ourselves as horsemen, in an equine industry. So show jumping tries to promote itself, and eventing tries to promote itself, and dressage tries to promote itself, but the numbers aren’t big enough. Whereas if we promoted ourselves much more as a horse industry, our numbers would be huge.”
A Different Perspective
Author: Emily Daily
by Lauren M. King
Equus
Most horse lovers have viewed at least a few art books full of horse photography. This isn’t your typical collection.
British photographer Tim Flach spent seven years traveling the globe to capture every aspect of horses and their lives. His work has culminated in the publishing of Equus. Packed with full-color images from every part of the world, Flach takes unusual looks at the horses that have captivated humans for millennia.
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