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The Ultimate English/Spanish Dictionary for Horsemen/E (Spanish Edition)

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I love this book. I did a whole report in spanish about horses and at first i couldnt find any translations for the different horsemen terms until I found this book. I would highly recommend this book to anyone. Very useful.

This book is the best I've seen and a must have for anyone in the horse industry. I just ordered a second copy for my son-in-law an equine veterinarian. It makes it easy to communicate with barn workers, trainers etc. who speak Spanish as their first language. An absolutely great tool that it easy to use and filled with vocabularly you can't find anywhere else. I think every college with an equine-related major or minor should have this book available in their bookstore.

This book is truly a "must have" if, like me, you live near the US/Mexican border and own horses. Actually, this is the THIRD copy of this book I've purchased because when I've loaned these books to people, I never see them again.

I searched high and low for an industry specific English/Spanish dictionary...this book is a show stopper. Organized into topical chapters (shoeing the horse, feeds, feed supplements, racing, polo, etc), the words are organized alphabetically within each section. It is comprehensive and easy to navigate. It is the gold standard for English/Spanish dictionaries. Everyone on my team owns one!

This was pretty good, but lacks some pretty familiar terminology, difficult to navigate. We had a lot of trouble figuring out how to tell the Mexican guys taking care of our horses that a colt was being gelded, and figuring out how to tell them a horse is a gelding. Difficult to tell them that this horse needs his legs wrapped, that one needs turnout for 20 min, another one is colicky, don't feed him, and if anybody has navicular or founder, not able to easily convey it. Perhaps could make a differentiation in Mexican, Cuban, Spain, and South American countries, but I admit that is just "picking" and this is still a good book to have. Huge thick book, but again, needs to be easier to navigate, in my opinion. that said, it is well worth having.

This book is essential if you are working with spanish speaking people around horses. It is organized along topic lines so if you are teaching a lesson, you can refer to the terms you will need by that section. If you are talking to your groom, there is a section on that. Or if you are the barn manager and need to communicate tasks, etc., there is a section on that too. And all equestrian disciplines are covered. This book is indispensible anytime you have a spanish-speaking horse person.

I bought this book primarily to take with me to Argentina where I play polo. While this book was still useful, there are lots of words and phrases that are just different down here. For instance, nobody calls a polo mallet a "martillo de polo" (polo hammer), everyone calls them tacos. Calling it that seems just as odd to Argentines as "baseball mallet" would seem to Americans. A polo ball is not so much a "pelota de polo" as a "bocha." To play "stick and ball" is to "taquear" (an important verb not in the book). The polo field is almost always called a "cancha" not a "campo." A match is "un match," not usually "un juego." The word "montar," while understood, is never used, using "andar a caballo" pretty much exclusively. Some of the equipment and some of the words are also different down here. This may seem nitpicky, but Argentina is the most important polo country in the world and horses are probably more important in Argentina than in any other Spanish-speaking country.