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Book Description
This guide helps horse owners, riders, and trainers at all levels learn how to assess any horse's fitness, strengths, and weaknesses. If you're buying a horse, this will help you pre-assess prospects before getting the complete veterinary examination. If you own a horse, these techniques will help you better understand your horse's aptitudes, customize a training program, identify signs of strain, and provide better care for your horse. Features step-by-step instructions and almost 200 photos and drawings showing the proper positioning and approach for the techniques described.
You'll Learn
- Hand palpation skills, several basic massage movements, and simple stretching exercises
- A Riding Evaluation Program (REP) that helps you identify abnormalities in gaits, tight– muscle groups or sore joints, and more
- The Palpation Evaluation Program (PEP), in which you use your fingertips to pinpoint problems
- How to perform an assessment of the horse's musculoskeletal system, with twenty–five points on each side
Fitness Evaluation of the Horse teaches you to evaluate the soundness and fitness of a horse in a hands-on manner so that you can fine–tune your training program, improve your performance, and enhance your relationship with your horse.
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Fitness Evaluation Of The Horse
