Assessing the horse's suitability for outdoor living, fencing, shelter, feeding and watering facilities, nutrition day-to-day care, common ailments, and safety and insurance.

Proceedings from a seminar held at the Equine Research Centre at Guelph University. Papers and seminar notes include: Considerations for Deworming, Considerations for Vaccination, Providing Optimal Pasture, Sowing Your Own Hay, Housing the Horse, Epidemiology of Equine Colic, Special Needs of the Breeding Farm, Management Approaches to Avoiding Rhodococcus equi Pneumonia in Foals, Lower Airways and the Equine Athlete, Understanding Pasture Plants, Poisonous Weeds, Build Your Own Run-In Shed, Better Horse Keeping, Guidelines for Fire Safety in Facilities Housing Racehorses at Racetracks.

An excellent, straightforward guide to riding. Good photo illustrations are quite helpful.

Includes references, bibliography, index. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is #20. Signed by the author. Quarter bound in dark blue leather with water-silk sides, gilt top, head and tail bands, gold blocked spine. In matching buckram bound slipcase.

History of the horse in Ireland, beginning with early Celtic mythology, right through to modern day breeding and racing.

Glossy white pictorial boards. No dust jacket as issued. Includes a detailed index of both breeders and horses, as well as a map of the area.

Reference for Icelandic horse breeders worldwide, covering studs and breeders in the Skagafjordur and Hunathing regions, with extensive photographs of individual horses.

Includes appendices, bibliography, index.

Reference for the breeder and a broadly based account for the equine historian. Describes the origin of painted horses in ancient times, their movement across Europe, their arrival in the Americas, and their acceptance in the 1960s as a distinctive breed. Discusses breed characteristics, bloodlines, and color patterns. Genetic principles involved in breeding authentic Paints, and descriptions and charts of markings of the tobiano, the overo, the criollo, and the Paint cropout.

Many b/w and colour illustrations, appendices, notes on sources, index.

Documents the business from the early era in Tallahassee in the 1800s to its unprecedented growth in Marion County, where limestone deposits in the rolling green countryside provide the perfect nutrients for healthy bones and cartilage in livestock. Interviews with first- and second-generation horse people, including Fred Hooper, winner of more breeder's awards and racing honors than anyone in the United States, and Frank David ("Buddy") Yates, Needles' gallop boy in the fifties and the son of Needles' trainer, Roy Yates. Among more than a hundred photographs in the book are shots of the famous captive flamingoes at Hialeah, Rough 'n Tumble's swimming pool at Ocala Stud, Needles exhibiting his characteristic displeasure during morning exercise, Carryback, the second Florida thoroughbred to win the Kentucky Derby, and Affirmed, the first to win the Triple Crown. Appendixes provide information on tracks, earnings, winners, breeder awards, and more.

History of public transportation in Paris, in the context of the city's urban and social development from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth.

Step-by-step instruction in training the western performance horse.

Includes charts, pedigrees.

John Hislop was a champion British amateur jockey and racing writer; he bred Brigadier Gerard, widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of the 20th century, who won 17 of 18 races including the 2000 Guineas and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes

Translated by Christina Belton.

Covers a range of alternative therapies for horses, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, shiatsu, leeches, cell therapy, and others. With sections on specific ailments.