Customer Reviews

Reining: The Guide for Training & Showing Winning Reining Horses (A Western Horseman Book)

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I was pleasantly impressed with this edition of Dunning's book. There are so many important exercises this book reveals to achieve your finished, complete horse. Dunning shares detailed descriptions of each exercise including great photos to provide the reader with an all-around understanding of how to execute each move, and why. I would recommend this book for the horseman who is looking for complete control of his horse, and a detailed understanding of why his horse may respond in a certain way to current commands. The lessons included in Dunning's book, when applied, will create a well rounded animal who can execute not only all of the reining requirements for competition, but will be a better animal to own that can be enjoyed by the whole family.

Excellent. Written in a clear, concise manner and easy to follow. Not for beginners at reining. If you are with a trainer, or have a pretty good background knowledge in dressage, this book can bring a lot of things together. Highly recommend this book.

I love this book. It is very informative and helped me to keep the whole picture in mind. It takes many steps and the right form to do these exercises properly. Great book!

Owned horses for 15 years. Ride in western events, but not reining.
Was fortunate to be able to purchase a champion reining horse, and needed insights into reining.
Book was very helpful.

I have read the book twice and find it very informative. I can use the principles with my trainer and also on my own.

I think this is a wonderful book to learn more about the horse ,you can never know enough about the horse so , this book has 5 stars from me .

I bought a 7 year old Morgan who had the brain of a 3 year old. She was broke, but didn't know how to stop, back up, or anything else. I was basically starting from scratch, but not really. This book has one whole entire chapter on breaking, which is good for some, but not for me. I needed the basics, but not those ones. What I am trying to say is that when it came to important things for me, they told you what to do, but not how to do it. So I've ended up training my horse through my own techniques, which, I think that a 15 year old girl's techniques are probably not the best. However, this book did give me good ideas on what to work on, in what order, so it helped me in that way, plus it was interesting to read. The people this book would benefit the most is people with colts that their lifetime career is reining, not just a hobby.

I think this is a wonderful book to learn more about the horse ,you can never know enough about the horse so , this book has 5 stars from me .