Knowing Your Horse: A Guide to Equine Learning, Training and Behaviour

If you understand how your horse learns and why your training is effective, you can train faster, more ethically, and more sympathetically. Emma Lethbridge thoroughly but simply explains learning theory, and how to apply it in a way that is both efficient for training and holds the horse's welfare paramount. Knowing Your Horse will be a key resource for those wishing to better understand their horse's behavior, and to make the most of that understanding to improve their training techniques.

Author: Emma Lethbridge
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781405191647
ISBN10: 1405191643
BISAC Categories:
- Pets | Horses

About the Author
Emma Lethbridge is an animal behaviour consultant and riding instructor, who has ridden and trained horses for 20 years. She is currently reading a PhD in Psychology at the University of Lincoln. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience from the University of Sussex and a Diploma in Practical Equine Behaviour, as well as having trained with the British Horse Society attaining the Groom's Certificate and Preliminary Teaching Qualification. Emma currently trains with well-known classical dressage master Heather Moffett, and her renowned High School horse trainer assistant Becky Holden, and holds their 'Enlightened Equitation Teacher' Qualification.