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Straightening the Crooked Horse
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Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.108967
EAN: 9781570763762
ISBN: 1570763763
Label: Trafalgar Square Books
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2007-07-01
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
Studio: Trafalgar Square Books

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Editorial Reviews:

Teaching both ground and in-saddle schooling techniques, this guide explains a revolutionary holistic system for straightening horses' bodies. Poor performance, bad behavior, and a decline in physical well-being all result from ingrained crookedness, which accounts for 95 percent of all movement problems in both pleasure and sport horses. Exploring a variety of issues—including where crookedness comes from; the basic anatomy and physiology of the moving horse; how incorrect training affects the health, strength, and temperament of the horse—this guide's complete training program will help riders and their horses achieve true straightness.



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Summary: A rare find
Comment: Congratulations to Gabriele Rachen-Schöneich & Klaus Schöneich on the publication of their book.

The book despite its well laid out appearance and beautiful line illustrations is not a coffee table book, which simply exists to be dipped into for entertainment only but a book that needs to be read and considered.

Even the title belies its true depth; lameness costs the horse owning public a huge amount of money and anxiety, as well as suffering to the horse.
There are many books, which describe lameness and tell us how to provide treatment and there are many books that show riders how to get the best from their horse so that they can look pretty and win competitions but few tell us how to recognise an innate problem and then help provide the tools in order to manage that problem.

The asymmetric horse has always existed but detailing how to recognise its existence and explaining what to do to help avoid potential lameness has seldom if ever been tackled.

Of course the explanations could have been better and the illustrations could have been bettered but what book is complete?

If I were to recommend another rare find that would compliment this one perfectly, then it would be a book, which tackles the same subject only from a different perspective and that book would be Farriery: The Whole Horse Concept.

Good luck.


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Summary: It helped my horse
Comment: This book helped open my eyes to the effects of crookedness in horses. Their explanations of the causes and effects crookedness has on horses was very helpfull. Following their protocol has helped my horse recover from an injury that really made him one sided. I wish there were more specific instructions with the lunging exercises, but even with the information in the book I was able to get started and see results. I will never look at a horse the same again.

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Summary: crooked horse explanations
Comment: Way too intense for me to read straight through. Reading the book only convinced me that IF I thought I had a crooked horse, I'd have to find local professional help that I could afford. A little intimidating if you don't have the funds to ship a horse around.

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Summary: This book can help make your horse sound and straight
Comment: After thousands of dollors spent on vets my horse still wasn't sound and there was no idea why after reading this book and using it my horse is now sound. this is a great book.

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Summary: Every horse rider needs to read it
Comment: This book is more than a little difficult to read and understand, at times. However, making the effort is worth it, because it explains the background reasons for so many problems owners have with their horses. Whatever your horseriding background, learning to spot and rectify a horse's natural crookedness will improve his athleticism, obedience and working life. Scattered throughout the book are lunging and ridden exercises which will help to achieve that goal.

Especially valuable in the book is a description of crookedness based on a description of the horse's "dominant leg", which I found much easier to get a grip on than standard terms such as "right-bend horse", "hollow left", etc, which can occasionally mean a different thing depending on who is using them!


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