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ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Recommended
Reading
Crysta Turnage said:
> What I'm
really looking for in particular is a book that discusses in DETAIL a
conditioning program.
> The
ones I have now seem to touch on the subject but don't go into the depth I'm
looking for.
> Things
like recommended regimines, I realize each horse is an individual, but would
like a general
> plan to
aim for/start from.
...
> Please
include WHY you like the book you are referring, not just the title.
Personally,
(though I don't know of any) I would NOT recommend any book that has a
detailed conditioning program. There are just too many variables to take
into consideration and too many different ways to acheive the same (or
similar) things depending on the horse, the rider, the terrain, the schedule
available....and not the least of which is, where/how you plan to
ride.
A detailed
conditioning program is far too individual of a thing (and needs to be
adjusted depending on how the horse responds), any book that went into
significant details would either have so many caveats so as to be totally
confusing, or it would be written by somebody who doesn't know enough to know
that they needed to make so many caveats. In both of these cases, the
books would be virtually useless.
All that said, an
interesting and (depending on who you talk to) valuable book about the
conditioning of horses is The Fit Racehorse II by Tom
Ivers.
