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Hold Your Horses: Nuggets of Truth for People Who Love Horses...No Matter What

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This book is the best horse book I have ever read, in my whole life! And every last bit of it is so true! I read this straight through, never stopping to put it down, and I laughed the whole time. When I found out the horse I ride for pony club cut his leg down to the bone, severing an artery(hes recovering nicely by the way), I was crying. I picked up Hold Your Horses and started reading, and felt almost instantly better. This book rules!

I just started riding this year and my instructor gave me this book for Christmas. The drawings and stories are so funny and completely true. So many of them relate back to lessons I have had such as mounting or the unscheduled dismount. I read it cover to cover in one sitting. This book would be a great idea for any horsey person.

Bonnie Timmons does indeed tell what it means to love a horse through her absolutely wonderful, whimsical illustrations and subtle warm and witty text. There's so much detail in the drawings that you simply have to look very very closely. I just loved reading the tiny text and have reread the book numerous times--naturally I had to make it my number one gift item this year for my family and all my friends. Even those who don't have horses. Bath Time, Grooming, the illustrations for designer bits, and the tiny "built-in ejector seat" saddle all make me glad I can read this book from my favorite chair! Hold Your Horses is a wonderful book and Bonnie Timmons obviously loves her horses..."no matter what"!

Hold Your Horses.

Hold this book. And keep it on your desk, by your bed, in your car, wherever you can. Look at it whenever you need a lift. "Hold Your Horses" by Bonnie Timmons is wise, witty, wonderful and very, very, very funny! Timmons covers everything from falling in love with horses to falling off of them with style -- "call it an unscheduled dismount and you'll save face." Her whimsical illustrations are very clever and richly detailed. Coupled with her trademark take on life, they put this book over the top. Not just for equestrians, this little tome is a real treasure and a find for anyone who loves horses, people or good humor. Read it, savor it and you'll you want to get back in the saddle, no matter what you fell off.

I have been reading Bonnie's illustrations and comics in horse magazines for years now and always waiting my next month's issue. I am so glad that there is finally an entire book to cuddle up with after a long day at the barn. It will lift your spirits after the bad days and make you want to get right back out there again. At least you know you're never alone!

No horse-lover's book shelf should be without this fantastic little book! It's jam-packed with hilarious drawings and statements that anyone that knows what it's like to care for a horse can relate to! Such a fantastic gift for anyone that likes horses, I read it nearly daily! Everything is so true!

I've read my share of "humorous" horse books, but this one beats them all, hands down. This is a MUST READ for ANY horse lover!

I read this book and want to read it over and over. Its the kind of book that you curl up in your favorite chair with a nice fleese blanket and read infront of a fireplace. It truly captures what it's like in the life of horses. I have had so many innocents and I can really relate. And with horses you have Unconditonal love. They step on your feet, they buck you off, they spook at the littlest things, and you do so much work every day but you wouldnt trade the it for the world. And those inncodents become stories to tell and laugh at. And that is what the book captures. That whole thing. With horses, everyday is interesting, and once you through your leg around that back, your hooked for life

I never expected to actually find humor in a horse book, since I'm a bit of a horse "snob" so to speak, but this book had me (and my snobby horse friends) rolling on the floor in laughter. Whether you do dressage, western pleasure, hunters, eventing, or just clean stalls you will LOVE this gut-bustingly funny book. The cartoons are so truthful and the text so witty (like the description of feeling like you are naked in front of everybody when you are trying a new horse for the first time) that you will not be disappointed. My only suggestion is to buy a few extra for your friends, because they'll all be trying to borrow it from you.

Hold Your Horses reads like all the conversations I've had with friends over the horse years - and those have just begun again, now that I haver retired and we have a farm and 30 horses in training. I loved this book and plan to buy at least a couple dozen for gifts for horsey friends. I know that they will all love it. Just wish I had discovered this BEFORE Christmas!