The USPC Guide to Conformation, Movement and Soundness
Knowing about horse conformation, movement and soundness is important to any horse owner, whether you are selecting a horse, judging horses, or evaluating a horse's strengths, weaknesses, and ultimate potential.
The USPC Guide to Conformation, Movement and Soundness clearly explains and illustrates good, functional conformation and movement, faulty movement, conformation defects, blemishes and unsoundness's, their causes, and how they affect the horse. This guide will be helpful to Pony Club and 4-H members, instructors, horse owners, and anyone interested in learning about evaluating horses' conformation, soundness and way of moving.
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Book details
- Author
- Susan Harris
- Imprint
- Howell Book House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Sports & Recreation › Animal Sports › Equestrian
- Topics
- horse conformation · horse movement · equine soundness · horse evaluation · equestrian sport · Pony Club · horse selection · conformation defects
- ISBN-13
- 9780876056394 (Paperback)9781630262372 (Hardcover)
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.