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Stretch Exercises for Your Horse: The Path to Perfect Suppleness

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I found this book to be excellent for my back sore horse and horses recovering from stall rest. It certainly cannot hurt for horses that you don't want to end up back sore or on stall rest. I have seen major improvements in the suppleness of my horses. The spiral bound format also allows you to keep it set up ringside for quick refrence and it won't close on you unexpectedly!

I purchased this book to help keep my 30 year old Morgan supple. Some of it can get technical and some of the sections are oriented towards the jumping horses, but you can defintely piece together a nice stretching rountine for your horse, no matter what your goal.

One of the greatest mistakes riders make is not preparing their horses to rider. They just jump on and go. They don't warm the horses up or stretch them after they have worked to keep muscles supple. Then they wonder why their horses become lame or injured. The stretches suggested in this book are a great way to treat your horse like the athlete he is.

As a Equine Sports Therapist I often coach owners and trainers on techniques to maintain their horse. This is the most valuable book I have, it is well written and easy to follow with lots of variety. PERFECT

For whoever said there is nothing new in this book you must be a very proficient and contentiousness horse person. I found this book pack full of goodies. Perhaps there is nothing "new" for you, but for most horse owners it is a fantastic book.

It has clear illustrations of all the stretches and explanations about why you do them. I also find this a good book for taking out to the barn and working through with my horses.

They enjoy the change from being ridden and the exercises also make good warm up and cool downs. They are the basic exercises but you don't really need to learn 999 different exercises. Just do the ones in this book well.

Not only does this book guide you on stretching your horse, it introduces you to the horses physical makeup in layman terms. It is well-written, thorough & I look forward to using these methods on my thoroughbred.

Stretch Exercises for Your Horse: The Path to Perfect Suppleness
Not impressed: while the book looks great and there are lots of good photos, the content is a bit thin. After a couple of times I realize that the information I wanted just was not there. For example, the stretch for adductors which i wanted was 5 lines, but this was after 10 pages of diagrams and pictures of stretches under saddle and with the forelimb. The stretches under saddle are vaque and too general. this could have been so much better had it more content.

What a great book! All you need to know about your horse's muscles, why you need to stretch and in what situations, is in this book. I have never come across something quite so comprehensive and easy to understand in one book before. It has wonderful big glossy colour pictures, spiral bound for easy page turning as well as being able to keep it open on the page you want while trying out some exercises on your horse.

I did several relevant stretch exercises on my horse's sore back end, and within a week he was helping to stretch himself and really seemed to enjoy it, closing his eyes, relaxing and wiggling his lips. His lunging work has also become easier as he has become more supple.

I especially recommend this book for anyone doing competition work with their horses, as they can become quite tense in certain areas and this book helps to explain and show you how to release the tension. Highly recommended.

I am not a horse trainer, but I have have been training my own horses for 20 years. I was hoping for a book with lots of pictures that I could glance at to visually remind me of what each exercise was. But this is not the book for me. It goes through each body part and gives detailed explanation of how muscles work, then active exercises and then goes to Passive exercises. So if you were wanting to passively stretch the whole horse, you have to keep thumbing through the book. The idea of the active riding exercises is great except she doesn't tell you HOW to achieve them. For example she states that riding the horse with the head and neck "Low and round" will stretch the topline. That's great, but how do I get the horse to do that. I bought the book because I was having trouble getting this horse to do just that. Overall I have to say I was disappointed.

I am a fan of Ms. Blignault. Easy to understand and very comprehensive. I always consult her books and always find anwers that have helped me enhance my partnership with my horse.