Horse Book Reviews

101 Dressage Excercises
By Jec Aristotle Ballou

This book from Storey Publishing follows the popular 101 Jumping Exercises for Horse & Rider. The exercises range from simple warm-up exercises to more complicated ones designed to develop suspension, flying lead changes, lightness and lengthening.

Anatomy of Dressage
By Heinrick Schusdziarra and Volker Schusdziarra

'This book ... provides excellent instruction for intermediate to advanced riders, who understand the theory involved in riding, but who are perhaps unaware of how to relate theory to actual muscle actions.'

Selecting the Dressage Horse
By Dirk Willem Rosie

This book that covers the subject of the dressage horse in a significant amount of depth. I do recommend it as reading, however, I can't help but find some fault with the book...

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dressage
By Martin Diggle

Dressage has enjoyed a long and colorful history and is more popular today than ever before. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dressage is the very first international encyclopedia on the subject.