Riding a Horse

I was very lucky to choose this title amongst many others. It's just what I needed, that is, a good and complete reference book to check my 9-year-old daughter's riding classes progress. Now I know what riding a horse is all about. No wonder! I've got some 540 photographs including step-by-step sequences showing what to do and what NOT to do, as the author points out the common faults very often. Equal and full attention is given to getting jumping abilities and the mastering of the several gaits.A panorama of all competition (jumping and non-jumping) sports as well as leisure games on horse-back is displayed on double pages, many of them completely new to me! You may think this paperback book is like any other paperback! Not true. This book is bound to last a lifetime thanks to the spectacular strong cover and perfect binding (I'm a bookworm, so I can tell when I see a superb edition like this) Just one small shortcoming: in order to keep the book reasonably thin with so many pictures and so exhaustively explained, the types are unusually small.