Training Your Foal - New Edition
Raise a confident and happy horse through sensitive training
Training a foal is no child’s play! It can be a fascinating experience, but it requires the correct mixture of horse knowledge and intuitive feeling.
Correct training follows from knowledge of how horses develop physically, mentally, and behaviourally. A horse which has been treated incorrectly as a foal may never be reliable. It may be prone to suspicion and panic reactions throughout its entire life. A well-trained foal is much easier to back, and its first hack will be a less risky undertaking.
In addition to the essential basic knowledge, the author offers tips and suggestions to ensure the successful training of your foal: Imprint training, first learning steps, learning with mother, weaning the foal, problems of adolescence, obedience and discipline, first gymnastic exercises, initial backing.
'The generous use of colour photographs beautifully illustrates the informative text and this is a book the reader will be eager to refer to each step of the way in training their foal to grow happily and successfully towards maturity.' - Ireland's Equestrian
About the Author
Renate Ettl is an equine sports therapist, Western style rider, judge and horse trainer. She has published several successful books with Cadmos, and lives in Germany.
ISBN 978-0-85788-002-4
Softcover, 144 pages
Author: Renate Ettl
