First riding lessons
Presents detailed information on beginning horseback riding lessons, including various types of ponies and horses, and kinds of equipment used.
| Main Author: | Ransford, Sandy. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Boston :
Kingfisher,
2004.
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| Series: |
Kingfisher riding club
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Before you start: Why take riding lessons?
- Where to take riding lessons
- Clothes to wear for riding
- Types of ponies
- Pony's tack: Saddles and girths
- Bridles and bits
- Saddling up
- Putting on a bridle
- Western tack
- First lessons: Meeting your pony
- Getting to know your pony
- Mounting
- Dismounting
- How to sit in the saddle
- Aids
- On the lunge or lead line rein
- On your own
- Turning left and right
- Learning to trot
- Cantering
- Western riding
- In the arena: Riding in a group
- Exercises in the arena
- Without stirrups and reins
- Exercises in the saddle
- Your first jumping lessons
- Looking forward: Road safety
- Trail riding
- Ready to move on.