Grooming Horses: A Complete Illustrated Guide

Grooming Horses is the ultimate visual guide for riders of all levels, offering step-by-step instructions and over 450 full-color photos to perfect essential grooming skills while mastering the art of horse care!

It’s a quick-reading, picture-driven guide to every aspect of grooming horses. It’s an easy-to-understand reference that allows riders of all ages and stages to smooth out the rough edges of their essential skills while acquiring more specialized knowledge. Step-by-step, full-color photo sequences and information-packed, clearly worded text make this volume the definitive resource on an age-old subject and a must-read for anyone who rides, owns, or tends to a horse.

More than 450 full-color photos on topics such as:

• Basic grooming
• Clipping
• Skin care
• Braiding
• Show preparation
• English and Western styles, all breeds

Jessie Shiers is the author of 25 Projects for Horsemen, The Lyons Press Horseman’s Dictionary, 101 Horsekeeping Tips, 101 Hunter/Jumper Tips, and Incredible Horse Tales and writes a monthly column for Western Horseman magazine. She lives in Norway, Maine, with her husband, daughter, and horses.

Moira C. Harris was for thirteen years the editor of Horse Illustrated, America’s largest monthly equestrian magazine. She has also written several books on riding and horse care. A lifelong horsewoman, Harris currently competes in dressage and show jumping with her two Thoroughbreds. She lives in Long Beach, California.