Certain to inspire unbridled pleasure in horse lovers and nature photography enthusiasts, this magnificent volume celebrates 50 horse breeds and the leading institutions of equestrian culture around the globe. The book visits the most renowned riding schools, the most spectacular sporting events, and the most moving, evocative, and colourful folkloristic events. It includes the ancient traditions of the Palio di Siena, snow polo in St. Moritz, the Riding School of Vienna, the Queen's horses and the Olympia Horse Show in London, rodeos in the USA, the Litang Horse Festival in China, and the world's richest race, the Dubai World Cup. SUSANNA COTTICA is an equestrian journalist for the magazines Cavalli & Cavallieri and Il Mio Cavallo and the editor of the Italian translation of Carnet de Champion by French Olympic rider Michel Robert. She is a third level F.I.S.E. (Italian Equestrian Federation) instructor and a rider who specialises in show jumping. LUCA PAPARELLI has nearly twenty years' professional experience as a journalist in the field of equestrian sports and horse breeding, covering related news for Cavalli & Cavalieri and Il Mio Cavallo magazines. As one of the world's leading experts, he is a frequent speaker at major breeders' events.

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A systematic, comprehensive, classical, and fair method of horse training.When problems occur during a horse's dressage training, all too often the trainer neglects to ask why and this guide endeavors to find the answers to this question. While demonstrating ways in which a horse's weaknesses can be systematically corrected, the book also details quiet and effective ways of developing a horse's strengths. Placing particular value on a method of schooling that avoids force, and builds consistently on an understanding of the horse's anatomy, the aim of the training approach is harmony in movement, which can only be achieved when the rider proceeds carefully and systematically. Topics include the biomechanics of the horse, the principle of balance before movement, how to work different types of horses, developing collection through lateral work, the flying change as a valuable tool, the pirouette for bend, and perfecting collection through piaffe and passage.