Storey's Guide to Training Horses, 3rd Edition

Preface
Introduction

1 Basic Safety Practices
   Safety First - Safe Ground Handling - Safety when Riding

2 Horse Sense and Training Psychology
   Understanding Horses - The Horse-Human Relationship - Training Principles - Training Aids - How to Avoid Conflict and Common Pitfalls

3 Handling and Training the Foal
   Learning Begins with Imprinting - Imprinting Your Foal - Handling a Foal during the First Weeks - First Leading Lessons - Beginning Lessons in Foot Handling - Beginning Lessons in Tying - Grooming Lessons for Handling and Patience - Advanced Leading Lessons - Basic Lesson Planning - Avoid Spoiling the Foal - Dealing with Challening Personalities - Know the Foal's Limits and Abilities

4 Handling and Training the Weanling
   Weaning a Foal - Train Consistently, Gently, and with Authority - Training Lessons for Routine Health Care - Life Lessons - Loving without Spoiling

5 The Yearling and the 2-Year-Old
   Crash Course for an Unhandled Young Horse - Round-Pen Training - Leading Lessons for the Yearling and 2-Year-Old - Teaching a Horse to Back Up at Halter - Beginning Tying - Perfecting His Tying - Lessons in Blanketing - Continue the Leading Lessons - Longeing - Ponying the Young Horse

6 Ground Work before Riding
   Bridling Beginners - Saddling Beginners - Maneuverability and Control

7 Bits and Their Uses
   Snaffles - Curb Bits - The Pelham - The Double Bridle - Ensure Proper Fit - Choosing a Training Bit - The Importance of Good Hands - The Hackamore

8 Bitting and Driving
   Bitting Ground Work - Bit Resistance - Training the Driving Horse and Pony - Selecting a Cart - Pulling Preparation - Pulling a Cart: First Lessons - Gradual Conditioning

9 First Mounted Lessons
   Accustom the Horse to the Saddle - First Mounting - Moving Out - Stopping and Turning - Short Rides around the Pen - First Trotting Lessons - Don't Canter Yet - Nip Problems in the Bud

10 First Rides in the Open
   Safety Precautions - Everything Is New and Different - Overcoming the Fear of Strange Obstacles - Shying - A Little Quiet Time - Riding along Roads

11 The Walk
   How the Horse Moves - Training at the Walk - Teaching a Faster Walk - Calming the Excitable Horse

12 The Trot
   How the Horse Moves - First Trotting Lessons for the Green Horse - The Jog - The Slow Trot - The Working (Medium) Trot - The Extended Trot - Walk-Trot Transitions - Change of Speed and Stride Length - Improving the Stop from a Trot - Trotting in Circles - The Most Versatile Gait

13 Lightness and Collection
   What Is Collection? - First Lessons in Collection - Teaching a Collected Trot - Perfect Balance, Greater Agility - Collection at the Canter - Don't Overdo It

14 The Gallop, the Canter, and the Lope
   How the Horse Moves at the Gallop - How to Ride the Gallop or Canter - Teaching the Green Horse - Working with Leads - Control of His Leads - The Flying Lead Change - Changing Leads on the Straightaway - Refine Your Cues - Don't Overdo It

15 Further Schooling
   Fine-Tuning Your Communication - Teaching a Smooth Stop - Teaching the Horse to Neck-Rein - Turning on the Center - Turning on the Forehand - Reining and Pivoting - Teaching the Backup - Lateral Work - Opening a Gate from Horseback - Beginning Dressage - Beginning Jumping - Avoid Souring the Horse

16 Trailer Training
   Load the Foal with His Mother - The Weanling or Yearling - Trailering the Adult Horse - The Reluctant or Spoiled Horse

17 Retraining the Spoiled Horse
   The Pushy Horse - The Body Basher - The Hard-to-Catch Horse - The Confirmed Avoider - The Hard-to-Lead Horse - The Hard-to-Bridle Horse - The Hard-to-Saddle Horse - The Hard-to-Mount Horse - The Horse Who Won't Tie - The Biter - The Kicker - The Turnout Terror - The Barn-Sour Horse - The Horse Who Rushes Home - The Herd-Bound Horse - The Head Tosser - The Horse Who Resists the Bit - The Bolter - The Balker - The Rearer - The Bucker

Epilogue
Appendix A: Equine Anatomy
Appendix B: Gait Sequences
Glossary
Resources
Index
Metric Conversion Charts