Product Description: Hundreds of stunning photographs highlight a comprehensive guide to horses, offering a wide range of information covering subjects such as the evolution of the horse and an exploration of the role horses have played in history. 50,000 first printing.

Hundreds of stunning photographs highlight a comprehensive guide to horses, offering a wide range of information covering subjects such as the evolution of the horse and an exploration of the role horses have played in history. 50,000 first printing.

Provides information on the history, colors, size, characteristics, and uses of more than one hundred breeds, and describes the standard practices of horse breeding

This guide to the world of horses and horse riding traces the development of the horse and its integration into early society, and how countries developed their own breeds.

Revised and updated to include fifty new photographs, additional spreads, and new sections such as Western Riding, Horse Management and Training, and Equipment, this equine reference chronicles the complete history of the horse, from domestication and classic riding to stud farms and current breeding trends.

Product Description: The horse world has many different "arenas," and even many professionals don't know the terms used outside their areas of expertise. Here, finally in one place, is a complete guide to everything horse-related - a guide that will be equally useful to a seasoned professional, a novice equestrian, and someone who just wants to know everything there is to know about horses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fully illustrated with over 150 color photographs and illustrations, the Factfinder Guides offer a comprehensive reference tool, covering the subject matter at hand in a convenient, easy-to-use dictionary format. Each volume is devoted to a single subject from weather to warriors, cats to horses, and more...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Covers grooming, riding, dressage, showjumping, driving, Western riding, equestrian sports, and illnesses (view table of contents)

A visual guide includes breed descriptions, histories, and other facts (view table of contents)

A fresh look at a favorite subject encompasses more than four hundred newly commissioned color photographs, a glossary of equestrian terms, an index, up-to-date text, and a fresh design. (view table of contents)

Describes more than one hundred breeds and types of horses in each region of the world and discusses their history and how they are used for work, racing, and riding

Identifies and describes ponies, work horses, and sports horses in addition to being a guide to horse breeding and care of youngstock

Provides information on the history, colors, size, characteristics, and uses of more than a hundred breeds and describes the standard practices of horse breeding