The Horse Show Mom's Survival Guide For Every

With warm and encouraging humour, sound advice and illustrative true-life adventures from the worlds of Western, hunter/jumper, combined training, and dressage competition, The Horse Show Mom's Survival Guide is an essential "leg up" for any parent whose youngster has that blue-ribbon gleam in their eye.

SUSAN DANIELS, Horse Show Mom extraordinaire, has written for Practical Horseman and The Chronicle of the Horse magazines. A nine-year veteran of Horse Show Mom-dom, she lives with her family, which includes accomplished show-rider daughter Chetana, in Fairfield, Iowa.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xi

First Things First

1

(8)

What to Expect

9

(12)

The Barn Universe

21

(14)

The Trainer

35

(18)

Buying and Selling Your Horse or Pony

53

(14)

Here Comes the Judge

67

(6)

Horse Show Dads

73

(6)

Western Breeds

79

(32)

Hunter/Jumpers and Equitation

111

(36)

Dressage

147

(20)

Eventing

167

(26)

It's Not Soccer

193

(4)

Appendix I A: American Quarter Horse Association

197

(4)

Appendix I B: American Paint Horse Association

201

(4)

Appendix I C: Appaloosa Horse Club

205

(2)

Appendix I D: Pony of the Americas

207

(4)

Appendix I E: Pinto Horse Association of America

211

(4)

Appendix I F: Arabian Horse Association

215

(2)

Appendix II A: Hunter/Jumper Organizations

217

(2)

Appendix II B: Points

219

(8)

Appendix II C: Indoors and Other National Horse Shows

227

(8)

Appendix II D: Jumper Tables

235

(2)

Appendix II E: The Marshall and Sterling League Finals

237

(2)

Appendix III: Eventing Points

239

(4)

Glossary

243

(8)

Resources

251

(2)

Index

253

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The Horse Show Mom's Survival Guide For Every Discipline

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