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En noviembre de 1918, Carlos Gardel y José Razzano, entonces de gira en la provincia de La Pampa, se escaparon hasta Buenos Aires para presenciar la "carrera del siglo" entre dos purasangres de enorme prestigio, Botafogo y Grey Fox. Ese día, todo el país se detuvo, cautivado por el gran espectáculo que tuvo lugar en el hipódromo de Palermo. Hasta los años cincuenta, la Argentina fue una verdadera "nación burrera", que vibraba al ritmo de las...
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The Derrydale PressTreasury of Foxhunting is a revival of some of the best foxhunting stories, written by some of America's finest sporting writers ever published. The collection was gleaned from more than thirty foxhunting books published by Derrydale, America's preeminent sporting publisher of the twentieth century, and the stories selected have long-since earned the distinction of classic.
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Riding by Torchlight, A Grass Roots Advocacy for Classical Horsemanship from Arena to Savannah is a collection of editorials and stories written during the tumultuous recent history of modern dressage. Susannah West Cord covers a wide range of topics from rehabilitating a retired racehorse, to the Rollkur controversy haunting the competitive world of dressage, to thoughtful essays on classical horsemanship.
Riding By Torchlight is eclectic, thought-provoking,...
84) Learning to Ride
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This classic text explains every phase of riding and jumping by a horseman of vast experience and international reputation. The text is enriched with numerous photographs, drawings, and diagrams. The material presented here ought to be mastered by every beginner, while the more experienced rider will find much in these pages to improve his/her riding. This manual will also prove of great value to any instructor who wishes to condense and simplify...
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Steeplechasing provides a long, colorful history of the sport and gives behind-the-scenes portraits of the horses, people, and places of the chase. From the 1800s, enjoy the reproductions of illustrations from colorful sporting journals, and enjoy the writing style of that era which was equally colorful. In more recent times, marvelous action pictures capture the excitement, beauty, and sometimes danger of the sport. Art lovers will also enjoy the...
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he Handbook of Jumping Essentials by Francois Lemaire de Ruffieu: A step-by-step illustrated guide explaining how to train a horse to find the proper take-off spot. Lemaire de Ruffieu was first trained and graduated from the Cadre Noir, one of the oldest and most prestigious riding academies in Europe. During his 6 years in the cavalry at Saumur and Fontainbleau, he studied and showed extensively in dressage, stadium jumping, three-day eventing and...
87) Intro to rodeo
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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This title explores everything a young horse lover would want to know about rodeos, from the history to the skills required. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, and a glossary.
88) Racing Savannah
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Hundred Oaks volume 4
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2013
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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They're from two different worlds.
He lives in the estate house, and she spends most of her time in the stables helping her father train horses. In fact, Savannah has always been much more comfortable around horses than boys. Especially boys like Jack Goodwin—cocky, popular and completely out of her league. She knows the rules: no mixing between the staff and the Goodwin family. But Jack has no such boundaries.
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Foxhunting with Meadow Brook on Long Island, New York, was always about more than the fox, the hounds, or the horses. Meadow Brook was about its people-some powerful, some idle, many wealthy-and their shared joy in galloping across beautiful country, only minutes outside New York City. Doomed from its 1881 conception, the Meadow Brook hunt managed to survive for ninety years in spite of poor scenting, sandy soil, angry farmers, quirky millionaires,...
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Internationally renowned Master and huntsman Hugh J. Robards, MFH engagingly informs foxhunters, new or experienced, how to more fully absorb the drama of the hunt. What is the huntsman doing? Why does he do that? What about the whippers-in? The Field Master? The hounds? The fox? What problems do each encounter in the field during the course of a typical hunt? What decisions must they make? It may be a revelation to some, especially those who hunt...
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Extrait : "Le cheval n'est pas une machine organisée mue seulement par des ressorts ; il y a en lui un principe moral, instinct ou intelligence, peu importe le nom qu'on lui donne. Nous n'entrerons pas dans des discussions abstraites et philosophiques sur une question souvent débattue et souvent résolue, dans l'un ou l'autre sens ; contentons-nous d'en extraire quelques données pratiques. Les actes du cheval démontrent qu'il y a en lui autre...
92) Riendas largas
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El trabajo a pie con riendas largas se puede entender como un método de adiestramiento del caballo a una distancia segura, desde el suelo. Este sistema consiste en controlar el caballo mediante unas riendas dobles extendidas que dibujan un círculo, permitiendo que el adiestrador observe y corrija la marcha del caballo. Las riendas largas sirven para realizar ejercicios con caballos cojos o convalecientes, para corregir un paso incorrecto y como...
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A collection of thirty-two foxhunting stories populated by horses, hounds, challenging obstacles, and unforgettable personalities. Accompany Norman Fine to Ireland, England, Canada, and across the United States as he meets, hunts with, and is educated by the foremost Masters, huntsmen, hound breeders, and sporting historians of the last fifty years. Fine's stories, most of them previously published in the U.S. and England, are connected chronologically...
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¿Por qué no participar en carreras de resistencia de caballos? Preparar a nuestro animal y a nosotros mismos para poder afrontarlas es una experiencia única y gratificante. Son competiciones en las que domina el respeto al caballo (no se permiten espuelas u otros métodos para fustigar al equino), que se realizan en campo abierto sobre diferentes distancias y en las que, además de la velocidad, también son primordiales la resistencia y la estrategia....
95) Look Twice
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Book 2 in the popular series.
Blood is thicker than water.
I didn't understand that expression when I was a kid. I only knew that I was closer to my brother Seth than to anyone else in the world. He was the calm to my storm, the light to my dark. We were tied to the rest of our complicated family by bonds beyond blood love, loyalty, convenience but as it turns out, the pull of blood is strong. Maybe even strong enough to tear me away from the person...
96) Renaissance Man
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Book 3 in the popular series."And they lived happily ever after."In fairy tales, that's always how things end. The prince and princess ride away on his white horse, and from then on all's right with the world. But what if it wasn't? What if the prince's life didn't suit the princess? What if she felt stifled by life inside the castle walls? Could she tell him? And if she loved him really loved him how could she ask him to give up his kingdom?
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Brynn honors her passion for horses by studying at the toughest veterinary program in the country. Months from graduating, tragedy strikes-tragedy for which she can't help but feel responsible. Brynn feels suffocated by the weight of her father's legacy and his dusty hopes for horse show jumping success. When Brynn's frenetic efforts to dig the family business out of debt fail, she's down to one desperate hope.
Enter Jason Lander, who understands...
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Bestselling author Michael Korda's Horse People is the story -- sometimes hilariously funny, sometimes sad and moving, always shrewdly observed -- of a lifetime love affair with horses, and of the bonds that have linked humans with horses for more than ten thousand years. It is filled with intimate portraits of the kind of people, rich or poor, Eastern or Western, famous or humble, whose lives continue to revolve around the horse.
Korda is a terrific...
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Beware the mare volume 4
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When Stogie, Gramp's untamed horse, escapes during a storm, Lily and her horse Beware are the ones who bring Stogie home again.
100) On Horsemanship
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On Horsemanship by Xenophon. Translated by Henry Graham Dakyns
On horsemanship deals with the selection, care and training of horses in general. Military training and the duties of the cavalry commander are dealt with in the Hipparchicus.Written in about 350 BC, the treatises of Xenophon were considered the earliest extant works on horsemanship in any literature.!
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