Grooming to Win: How to Groom, Trim, Braid, and Prepare Your Horse for Show (3rd Edition)
This is the definitive book on grooming your horse to catch the judge’s eye. It features over 400 detailed drawings illustrating every aspect of grooming. Completely updated, it details current practices and requirements and covers conditioning, daily care, tools and supplies, and grooming for shows. New chapters discuss blanketing, newly popular breeds, and the latest show ring clothing styles. A must-have reference, it covers all disciplines and includes trimming styles by type and event as well as by breed.
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Book details
- Author
- Susan Harris
- Imprint
- Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Pets › Horses
- Topics
- horse grooming · horse shows · braiding · trimming · equestrian sports · horse care · show preparation · blanketing
- ISBN-13
- 9781620456774 (Hardcover)9780470047453 (Paperback)
About the author
SUSAN E. HARRIS is an equestrian clinician, riding teacher, and artist from Cortland, New York who has taught all seats and styles of riding and trained horses and riders across disciplines including hunters, jumpers, dressage, eventing, western pleasure, saddle seat, and equitation.
In 2004, Harris was honored as a Master Instructor by the American Riding Instructor Association, the culmination of decades of work establishing certification standards for American riding instructors dating to the 1970s.
When not writing, Harris directs 5-H Acres School of Horsemanship, a nationally accredited riding instructor school she led for ten years, and has taught college equine studies and physical education equitation courses.
Susan lives in Cortland, New York.