Books from Kenilworth Press

  • Grooming
    Grooming
    By Susan McBane

    A guide to grooming and how it can help keep horse and ponies healthy and looking their best.

  • Understanding Your Horse's Lameness
    Understanding Your Horse's Lameness
    By Diane Morgan

    This volume covers all the issues and topics related to lameness in horses.

  • Aromatherapy for Horses
    Aromatherapy for Horses
    By Caroline Ingraham

    A teach yourself guide to aromatherapy for horses, this handbook covers how to select aromatherapy oils and how to apply them. It addresses behavioural and skin problems, and oils for travelling, as well as first aid.

  • Country Life Book of Antique Maps: An Introduction to the History of Maps and how to Appreciate Them
    By Jonathan Potter

    Country Life Book of Antique Maps: An Introduction to the History of Maps and how to Appreciate Them

  • Correct Movement in Horses: Improving Straightness and Balance
    Correct Movement in Horses: Improving Straightness and Balance
    By Klaus Schoneich

    Crookedness has a negative effect on the horse's health, performance and behaviour. This book describes whole process of correcting crookedness, and includes work both on the lunge and under saddle.

  • Down to Earth Dressage
    Down to Earth Dressage
    By Carl Hester, Bernadette Faurie

    This enormously popular book for riders at every level, makes dressage training accessible with step-by-step guides for improving pace, riding movements and competing.

  • BHS Complete Training Manual for Stage 1
    BHS Complete Training Manual for Stage 1
    By Islay Auty, Margaret Linington-Payne

    Used in conjunction with 'The BHS Manuals of Equitation and Stable Management' and 'The BHS Veterinary Manual', this is the authorised course companion for British Horse Society tests and exams.

  • D Is for Donkey: An A to Z of Donkey Facts and Stories
    D Is for Donkey: An A to Z of Donkey Facts and Stories
    By Elisabeth D. Svendsen

    You'll read about the children who have benefited from the work of The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children & Donkeys, and all kinds of little known facts and donkey trivia. (Did you know that a "zeedonk" is the offspring of a male zebra ...

  • Perfect Mind, Perfect Ride: Sport Psychology for Successful Riding
    Perfect Mind, Perfect Ride: Sport Psychology for Successful Riding
    By Inga Wolframm

    EQUESTRIAN & ANIMAL SPORTS. Perfect Mind, Perfect Ride by Inga Wolframm and foreward by Mary King MBE.

  • The Rider's Balance: Understanding the Weight Aids in Pictures
    The Rider's Balance: Understanding the Weight Aids in Pictures
    By Sylvia Loch

    Sylvia Loch provides an image-driven visual guide that shows how each tiny shift of the rider's weight affects the horse's balance.

  • Progressive School Exercises for Dressage and Jumping: A Handbook for Instructors and Riders
    Progressive School Exercises for Dressage and Jumping: A Handbook for Instructors and Riders
    By Islay Auty

    Progressive School Exercises provides a collection of exercises, on the flat and over fences, specifically designed for use in training more experienced riders and horses, whether in groups or as individuals, or schooling at home.

  • Advanced Techniques of Dressage
    Advanced Techniques of Dressage
    By German National Equestrian Federation, German National Equestrian Federation Staff

    "This book is a must have . . . it really inspires you to greater things and encourages you to believe that anything is possible if you follow the book step-by-step!" —www.horsecity.co.uk

  • Country Gun: John Humphreys Countryman, Author, Naturalist
    Country Gun: John Humphreys Countryman, Author, Naturalist
    By John Humphreys

    Country Gun is an outstanding collection of the finest articles from Shooting Times and Country Life columnist, who sadly passed away this year.

  • Lungeing and Long-Reining
    Lungeing and Long-Reining
    By Jennie Loriston-Clarke

    This manual offers a step-by-step guide to the art of training, exercising and suppling horses from the ground, by a leading exponent of the art.

  • The Principles of Riding: Basic Training for Horse and Rider
    The Principles of Riding: Basic Training for Horse and Rider
    By German Equestrian Federation

    The Principles of Riding provides a complete instruction course of horse and rider using the German training system -- a system that has consistently produced international champions for many decades.

  • Hoof Problems
    Hoof Problems
    By Rob van Nassau

    Foot problems are the bane of horses' and horse-owners' lives. With the aid of over 1000 photos, internationally renowned farrier Rob van Nassau looks at every aspect of hoof care, and describes in detail more than 50 common problems.

  • Jumping Cross-country Fences
    Jumping Cross-country Fences
    By Jane Wallace, Jane Thelwall

    Advice on how to safely negotiate a variety of cross-country obstacles.

  • Making Your Own Jumps
    Making Your Own Jumps
    By Mary Gordon-Watson

    A step-by-step guide to building your own show jumps and cross country fences. Chapters include various types of show jumps, jumping course plans, basic construction and ditches, banks, steps and water.

  • Educating the Young Horse: The Thinking Trainer's Guide
    Educating the Young Horse: The Thinking Trainer's Guide
    By Julian Westall

    Knowledgable equestians would agree that the quality of the young or green horse's basic training ultimately affects its performance and happiness throughout its life.

  • The Byerley Turk: Three Centuries of the Tail Male Racing Lines
    The Byerley Turk: Three Centuries of the Tail Male Racing Lines
    By K. M. Haralambos

    Laced with numerous anecdotes about the horses and their owners, the book is both entertaining and informative and should be enjoyed by racing and non-racing horse enthusiasts alike.