Training and Showing Your Miniature Horse in Halter Classes

Author:  Pat Elder 

 
An excellent how-to book for MIniature Horse owners. The Author walks the reader through every step of the process. Over 90 photographs and illustration emphasize every point the author makes.

Content includes:

• Selecting the halter horse: conformation, movement, foals as prospects, bloodlines
  
• Basic training: dealing with disrespectful, pushy, frightened, or head-shy horses; catching the horse, leading the horse; kicking and biting, crowding
  
• Condition: round pen work, jumping, backing, movement enhancers, neck sweats
  
• Halter horse care: nutrition, water, housing, blanketing
  
• Special training: setting the feet, using the neck, pricking the ears, learning patience, a flat toppling, the quick release knot; showing stallions, loading onto a trailer
  
• Body Clipping: the head, razoring, the mane and tail, the ears
  
• First show: show clothes, horse attire, entering the show, show supplies
  
• Show time: preparing the stalls, measuring the horse, final preparations
  
• The halter class: visualization, class procedures, setting up the horse, show ring etiquette

Paperback: 152 pages