Required reading for Eventers

[yellowbritches]

I started re-re-reading Jimmy's "Training the Three Day Event Horse and Rider" and it got me to thinking, if there was a required reading list for all new event riders, what would be on it?

Obviously the rulebook and Jimmy's book, and I can think of a few great xc jumping books that I love (Lucinda Green's and Blythe Tait's are two of my favorites). What would you all tell new event riders are must reads?

[NeverTime]

Especially for people new to the sport, Sally O'Connor's book, which is a great introduction on many levels.

[clivers]

Depends how new they were, but for the complete novice definitely the pony club manual.
For someone a little further along, I like the sources you recommended and would add the Event Groom's Handbook and For the Love of the Horse, as well as the USCTA book of Eventing...and possibly Riding Logic.
I'm currently slogging through Col. D'Endrody's epic Give Your Horse a Chance. Though it's not a light read, it's an amazing study.

[yellowbritches]

Event Groom's Handbook and For the Love of the Horse
Two of my favorites!:yes:

[LexInVA]

Perhaps now would be a good time to post some of The Woff's past reading lists.

[SueCoo2]

Training The Young Horse! :yes:

[JER]

Both of Steinkraus's books -- Riding and Jumping and Reflections on Riding and Jumping.

[yellowbritches]

Duh, Pippa's book is one of my all time favorites, and Bill Steinkraus' is a CLASSIC (and one I've read over and over and over since I was a teen!).

William Fox-Pitt's book is good, too, but I can't remember the name of it off the top of my head.

[Little Valkyrie]

My Four Favorite horse books are:
Training the three day event horse and rider by Wofford
Hunter Seat Equitation by Morris
To the Nines- Cannot remember the author
Complete Horse Riding Manuel- William Micklem (looks like a typical 'horse encyclopedia' but is really fantastic).
(and William Fox-Pitt's book is What Will Be :))
I have found all of these (plus a few others) to be excellent go-to books for all of my equestrian needs!

[lyssap39]

I love this thread!!! I love reading (and even though I have read all of these wonderful books) I am hoping that someone will put something up there that I haven't read yet!

[cheval80]

"Talking with Horses" by Henry Blake. He has a great chapter called "Horses I've learned from." A great read.

"Conditioning Sport Horses" by Dr. Hilary Clayton.

[UMass Director]

Some more great resources

The German Advanced Training Handbook
The Complete Training of Horse and Rider, Alois Podhajski
Mark Todd's 2 books, Novice Eventing and Cross Country Handbook
Add Anne Kursinski's Jumping Clinic

[Blugal]

Basic Training of the Young Horse by Reiner Klimke

Cavaletti by Reiner & Ingrid Klimke

The Event Horse by Sheila Wilcox

Celebrity Jumping Exercises by Caroline Orme (Pat Burgess' is a must-have)

USCTA Book of Eventing: The Handbook of the United States Combined Training Association (http://www.amazon.com/Uscta-Book-Eventing-Official-Association/dp/0961782609) - not only still good today from a training perspective, but gives insights into conditioning, courses from Training to Advanced and the designers' perspectives on them, and some history of the sport

Jimmy Wofford's list (http://www.equisearch.com/horses_riding_training/english/eventing/wofford_winter_reading_list_122107/)

[Viva]

Blyth Tait's Cross Country Clinic--it's so practical and the exercises to solve problems are great.
Dressage for the 21st Century by Paul Belasik is also great--really clear principles of dressage training that doesn't put me to sleep and doesn't make me feel like I'm back in Catholic School getting scolded by the nuns!

[Rescue_Rider9]

Cavaletti by Reiner & Ingrid Klimke



I was just about to suggest that book. It helped a lot in bringing along my mare!

[Janet]

The two books I keep going back to (for training, not current competition rules) are
Give Your Horse a Chance (d'Endrody)
Effective Horsemanship (Noel Jackson)

[bornfreenowexpensive]

I like a lot of the books already mentioned. This is my current list.

Riding Logic
Advanced Techniques of Dressage
The DeNemethy Method
Winning with Frank Chapot



I'm re-reading the first two now....and trying to find my copies of the last two (one is signed so I do really need to find it!).