|
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Equestrian & animal sports > General
A comprehensive guide to the conditioning, producing, training, and
exhibition of the heavy horse breeds. The author gives advice on
general care, handling, feeding, shoeing, plaiting, and preparation
for the show ring. Harness, handlers, carts, and carriages are
examined and the problems of transporting these gentle giants and
their vehicles are covered.
From the Wild West shows of the nineteenth century to the popular
movie Westerns of the twentieth century, one view of an idealized
and mythical West has been promulgated. Elyssa Ford suggests that
we look beyond these cowboy cliches to complicate and enrich our
picture of the American West. Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion
takes us from the beachfront rodeo arenas in Hawai'i to the
reservation rodeos held by Native Americans to reveal how people
largely missing from that stereotypical picture make rodeo--and
America--their own. Because rodeo has such a hold on our historical
and cultural imagination, it becomes an ideal arena for
establishing historical and cultural relevance. By claiming a place
in that arena, groups rarely included in our understanding of the
West--African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans,
Native Hawaiians, and the LGBT community--emphasize their
involvement in the American past and proclaim their right to an
American identity today. In doing so, these groups change what
Americans know about their history and themselves. In her journey
through these race- and group-specific rodeos, Ford finds that some
see rodeo as a form of escape, a refuge from a hostile outside
world. For others, rodeo has become a site of rebellion, a place to
proclaim their difference and to connect to a different story of
America. Still others, like Mexican Americans and the LGBT
community, look inward, using rodeo to coalesce and celebrate their
own identities. In Ford's study of these historically marginalized
groups, she also examines where women fit in race- and
group-specific rodeos--and concludes that even within these groups,
the traditional masculinity of the rodeo continues to be promoted.
Female competitors may find refuge within alternate rodeos based on
their race or sexuality, but they still face limitations due to
their gender identity. Whether as refuge or rebellion, rodeos of
difference emerge in this book as quintessentially American,
remaking how we think about American history, culture, and
identity.
When owning, training, riding, and showing horses, there is a
certain 'look' to which one aspires. No one knows how to do all of
this better than those working as 'professional grooms' for the
world's top riders and trainers. It is the responsibility of these
elite experts to keep their four-legged charges happy, healthy, and
primed for peak performance - in body and mind. Now, two of the
best professional grooms in the business share their trade secrets,
with over 1200 colour photographs demonstrating how to clean the
horse from nose to tail; wrap, clip, braid, and ship him; prepare
him for or present him in various English competitive scenarios;
and care for him after work or showing so he is rested and ready to
do it all again. The ultimate modern-day guide for all riders who
want their horses to look and feel their best. The complete guide
to daily care of keeping horses and preparing for competition.
Written by two professional grooms at the top of their game.
Everything you need to know with over 1200 photographs by Jessica
Dailey. Includes techniques for wrapping legs, bandaging tails,
adding quarter marks and polishing the metal on tack
After his remarkable eight-second ride at the 1996 Indian National
Finals Rodeo, an elated American Indian world champion bullrider
from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, threw his cowboy hat in the air.
Everyone in the almost exclusively Indian audience erupted in
applause. Over the course of the twentieth century, rodeos have
joined tribal fairs and powwows as events where American Indians
gather to celebrate community and equestrian competition. In Riding
Buffaloes and Broncos, Allison Fuss Mellis reveals how northern
Plains Indians have used rodeo to strengthen tribal and intertribal
ties and Native solidarity.In the late nineteenth century, Indian
agents outlawed most traditional Native gatherings but allowed
rodeo, which they viewed as a means to assimilate Indians into
white culture. Mistakenly, they treated rodeo as nothing more than
a demonstration of ranching skills. Yet through selective
adaptation, northern Plains horsemen and audiences used rodeo to
sidestep federally sanctioned acculturation. Rodeo now enabled
Indians to reinforce their commitment to the very Native values--a
reverence for horses, family, community, generosity, and
competition--that federal agencies sought to destroy. Mellis has
mined archival sources and interviewed American Indian rodeo
participants and spectators throughout the northern Great Plains,
Southwest, and Canada, including Crow, Northern Cheyenne, and
Lakota reservations. The book features numerous photographs of
Indian rodeos from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and maps
illustrating the all-Indian rodeo circuit in the United States and
Canada.
With her landmark first book Horse Speak: The Equine-Human
Translation Guide, trainer Sharon Wilsie upended conventional
methods of human equine communication (using words and ropes, for
example) with her clear classification of the language horses use
with each other (body, breath, and intent), as well as an
unparalleled explanation of how we as humans can effectively mirror
it. Learning to "listen" and "talk" to horses in their language,
instead of expecting them to comprehend ours, is a milestone in the
progressive philosophy of horsemanship, helping find positive
solutions to behavior and training problems and ultimately leading
to fewer misunderstandings between horses and humans. In her much
anticipated follow up, Wilsie uses true stories to relate examples
of "problems" and how they were solved using Horse Speak. Her
engaging narrative introduces readers to dozens of real life
scenarios from different barns, various disciplines, and riders and
handlers with contrasting experiences and backgrounds. Wilsie
highlights her Horse Speak process, the clues that point to the
best course of action, and the steps she takes to connect with
horses that have shut down, grown confused, or become sulky or
aggressive for any number of reasons. The result is a book full of
incredible insight and exciting possibilities.
|
|