The man who listens to horses talks to people. Monty Roberts will make you marvel. The Man Who Listens to Horses will first break then mend your heart. New York Times Already famous for his way with horses Monty Roberts now wants to revolutionise the way we communicate with each other. His principles of trust & non-violence about which he speaks so passionately & lucidly in his public demonstrations made corporations from all over the world send their managers to watch his work with horses. They saw that Montys techniques could be applied to business leadership & training. People of all kinds all over the world write & talk to Monty Roberts everywhere because his passion for understanding for gentleness for fairness reaches all of his audiences. They respond to his ideas of how we can make the world in which we live & work a better place. The demonstration by Monty Roberts taught us some valuable lessons in peoplemanship. Each of us learned something we could bring back to our daily lives. Richard H Frank Chairman Walt Disney Communications We cant all meet him so in response to the almost universal demand to Monty to make his life-changing thinking available to everyone he wrote this book. ...

Reusable vinyl stickers include horses of different breeds & colors; various riders instructors & judges; poles & jumps; & all the paraphernalia of horse shows
- tack hats boots costumes barrels dressage letters trail obstacles flags & of course ribbons & trophies. Children arrange the stickers on background scenes that include an indoor arena a fenced paddock a backstage trailer area & a colourful country fair with a show ring. To help children create interesting play scenes informative text explains how horse shows work
- what to wear how to perform for the judges the differences between Western & English events how prizes are awarded & much more. A short glossary reminds children of key phrases they will love to learn & teach to anyone who will listen.

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Voice facial expression & body language: these are how horses communicate with each other & with us. These ways are deeply rooted in their natural way of life as herd animals. We would understand our horses behaviour better if we were able to correctly interpret their language. For most of us many of these signals remain virtually invisible. Experienced horsemen & women however know exactly how to talk horse". This guide helps translate the language of horses pointing out the signals & gestures to look out for & explaining how to correctly interpret them helped by illustrative photographs throughout." ...

When Horse went up a tree one day he didn't think about how to get down again
- & now he's stuck. The sheep the ducks the hens
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In the still of a snow-covered morning in upstate New York a girl out riding her horse is hit by a 40-ton truck. Though horribly injured both thirteen-year-old Grace Maclean & her horse Pilgrim survive. But the impact on their lives is devastating. Grace's mother Annie hears about a man called Tom Booker a 'whisperer' who is said to have the gift of healing troubled horses. Abandoning her job Annie sets off across the continent with Grace & Pilgrim to find him. Under the massive Montana sky all their lives are changed for ever. ...

In a memoir as vivid & unpredictable as any novel we follow Roger Garfitt on his journey from stable boy to jazz dancer from Oxford dandy to Sixties drop-out. We see him on horseback with the Riding Master to the Kings of Portugal & in a beatnik pad with Redmond OHanlon. We watch as he is introduced to David Bowie & realises that the wrong one has come as the rock star. We follow him back to the Norfolk village where as a small child he had glimpsed the world through his grandfathers eyes & we are inside his head as he gradually cuts loose from the real world eventually being committed to a locked ward in a mental hospital. Written with a poets gift for language The Horsemans Word" is an account of what it is like to feel the world too acutely to love too obsessively to go right to the very edge & miraculously survive." ...

Children everywhere will adore this photographic collection of horses in wildly varying poses by the world-renowned Yann Arthus-Bertr&. In a series of dramatically lit & beautifully composed photographs horses & their owners appear together in studios or in the open air against plain backdrops in some of the most stunning & far-flung parts of the world. Noted childrens author Christophe Donners engaging stories complement the photographs. ...

Monty Roberts is known as the man who listens to horses because of his amazing ability to understand & communicate with his equine partners. He has written this book to celebrate the horses throughout his life that have had a special significance: from his first mount Ginger through the champion show horses & sprinters to those he is working with tirelessly today. THE HORSES IN MY LIFE gives a unique insight into his non-aggressive methods & how his relationship with each horse developed. It is an inspirational collection of vignettes that reveals his love & respect for these noble animals. We are invited not only to get to know the individual horses but to share the immense joy that Monty found with them. ...

The book lists in alphabetical format over 690 British Irish & French trainers their horses the owner & breeder of each horse foaling dates of two year olds & the trainers address & phone numbers. Fully indexed it has over 200 pages of statistics. ...

Horses in Training lists in alphabetical order over 700 British Irish & French trainers their horses the owner & breeder of each horse foaling dates of two-year-olds & the trainer's address & phone numbers. Fully indexed it has over 200 pages of statistics. ...