Horse Safe: A Complete Guide To Equine Safety

JANE MYERS Horse riding is widely enjoyed as a professional sport or a hobby by riders of all ages. It is also many of these dangers can be avoided and the severity of accidents drastically reduced if safe practices and risk management are employed. Horse Safe covers safety around horses in detail and aims to raise awareness of what can happen. Beginning with an explanation of a horse’s natural behavioural characteristics, such as herd behaviour, intelligence and body language, the author then presents the more human aspects of horse safety – safety equipment and how it should be maintained, the working environment, systems for safe horse management, safe riding, training for safe horses, and transporting horses safely. The book concludes with a chapter on how to reduce the risks when buying a horse and how to avoid potential pitfalls. Written by Jane Myers, a leading expert, and endorsed by the Association for Horsemanship, Safety and Education (AHSE), Horse Safe is highly practical and is invaluable for riders of all disciplines and skill levels. A COMPLETE GUIDE TO EQUINE SAFETY acknowledged as being potentially dangerous, yet HORSE SAFE HORSE SAFE HORSE SAFE A COMPLETE GUIDE TO EQUINE SAFETY JANE MYERS HORSE SAFE A COMPLETE GUIDE TO EQUINE SAFETY JANE MYERS © Jane Myers 2005 All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 and subsequent amendments, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, duplicating or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Contact Landlinks Press for all permission requests. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Myers, Jane. Horse safe. Bibliography. Includes index. ISBN 0 643 09245 5. 1. Horses - Safety measures. 2. Horsemanship - Safety measures. I. Title. 798.230289 Published by and available from: Landlinks Press 150 Oxford Street (PO Box 1139) Collingwood Vic 3066 Australia Telephone: Local call: Fax: Email: Website: +61 3 9662 7666 1300 788 000 (Australia only) +61 3 9662 7555 [email protected] www.landlinks.com Landlinks Press is an imprint of CSIRO PUBLISHING Cover Front cover photo by Stuart Myers; back cover photos by the author Set in 10.5/13 Minion Cover and text design by James Kelly Edited by Adrienne de Kretser Index by Russell Brooks Typeset by J&M Typesetting Printed in Australia by Ligare Disclaimer: While the author and publis