Drawing on her vast experience as an international judge of carriage driving, the author explains the judging procedures of every class including carts, coaches, mountain and moorland, donkeys, junior whips, disabled drivers, and horse driving trials.

This invaluable reference book present information on every aspect of driving, horses, vehicles, harness, and competition.

A comprehensive overview of the sport of carriage driving, written with the novice driver in mind. Covers topics such as equipment selection and fitting, basics of driving, safety, skill development, preparing for competition, sleighing and driving multiple hitches.

Fortuitous Clue ( examining a mysterious Town Coach} by Ken WHEELING On Body Loops and Pump Handles by the late or GORDON S. Cantle In Living Color (images in the Studebaker Bros. catalog} by Jennifer Singleton

The Field Marshal's Transport [investigating a seventeenth-century vehicle} by KEN WHEELING How Should I Tum Out My Gig? [practical advice for the show ring} by TERRY PICKETT and MARk SCHOFIELD Anniversary :Memories The Last Word The Valley that Changed the World [people & vehicles of Pennsylvania's Oil Creek Valley} by RANDY SOLLE Ancient Egyptian Driving Systems [part one: bits and bitting} by K.M. HANSEN

A guide to carriage driving, discussing all aspects from pleasure driving to competition at international level. Advice ranges from choosing a suitable horse, selecting and maintaining equipment, to driving techniques and safety. Guidance on schooling, fitness, and other topics is also included.

In this completely revised, enlarged and updated edition of Sallie Walrond's classic work, a new series of step-by-step colour photographs, taken especially for the book by talented equestrian photographer Anthony Reynolds, takes the reader through basic lungeing and bitting techniques, shows the correct way to introduce both harness and vehicle and demonstrates by means of the author's own tried and tested methods the way to produce an animal who will go willingly and happily in harness. Safety is a priority at every stage and training for road work is included. The author's lucid, easy-to-follow text provides all the necessary information to enable any averagely competent rider to train a horse to go in harness with success whether the animal concerned is an unbroken two year old or an outgrown family pony. AUTHOR: Sallie Walrond's reputation as a driving expert is renowned all over the world. She has ridden and driven since she was nine years old. She is council member, judge, instructor, examiner and area commissioner for the British Driving Society. She teaches, lectures and judges internationally and has shown harness horses with success for many years.

"A sequel to Breaking a horse to harness."

Learn about your favorite equine breeds with this easy-to-use reference on their conformation, colors, and characteristics—from Arabians to Welsh Ponies. Thinking of acquiring a horse? Studying equine breeds and traits? Or simply curious about the magnificent creatures? This book, with profiles of one hundred horse, pony, and draft breeds, is the most comprehensive field guide to horses ever published. Illustrated throughout with fine color photographs, the profiles detail the characteristics and unique aspects of each breed; they also include brief histories and explain distinctions of equine color genetics, markings and patterns, and conformation. Complete, concise, and compact, this field guide is as handy as it is informative—the perfect companion for anyone considering horses.