Trailering Your Horse: A Visual Guide to Safe Training and Traveling

Book Description
Clear, step-by-step photography guides the reader through all the necessary procedures to prepare for safe, low-stress traveling. Readers will learn how to select a truck and trailer; train a horse to enter, exit, and travel in a trailer; pack the right gear and emergency equipment; drive safely while pulling a trailer; and care for a horse en route.


From the Back Cover
"If you want solid how-to information, Cherry Hill delivers the goods." --Fran Smith, Western Horseman A Complete Trailering Reference From selecting the right equipment to training to traveling You can lead a horse to water, but can you lead him onto a trailer for the first time? Trailering Your Horse, illustrated with hundreds of photographs and drawings, takes the guesswork out of this essential equestrian skill. Here is everything a horse owner needs to know about selecting, maintaining, and operating trailers, and transporting horses. From techniques for determining a trailer's tongue weight to exercises that take horses through simulated loading to horse care en route, Hill explains it all and gives readers an reference they will rely on for a lifetime.


About the Author
Cherry Hill is an internationally known instructor, horse-trainer, breeder, and judge for several national breed organizations. She has taught university-level courses in horse management and training in the United States and Canada. Cherry has also written over 500 articles for-numerous horse publications and gives seminars for horsemen and writers. Cherry is the author of a plethora of books helpful in the horse world, including 101 Arena Exercises -- for which she received the Colorado Authors' League Top Hand Award for Specialty Writing in 1996. Her other Storey titles include: 101 Horsemanship & Equitation Patterns, From the Center of the Ring, Horse Handling and Grooming, Horse Health Care, and Your Pony, Your Horse. One of Cherry's most recent books is Stablekeeping, a guide to creating a safe, healthy and efficient living environment for your horese. She has also written Trailering Your Horse, a helpful book on how to prepare for safe traveling. A concise, talented writer, Cherry has won numerous writing awards -- among the most recent include the First Place in Editorial Excellence in Service to the Reader from American Horse Publications in 1993, and the 1994 Journalism Award from The American Farmers Association. Cherry has also authored Storey's popular Arena Pocket Guides, six handy ring-side manuals teaching successive English and Western skills. These series titles are: Beginning English Exercises, Intermediate English Exercises, Advanced English Exercises, Beginning Western Exercises, Intermediate Western Exercises, and Advanced Western Exercises. Juli S. Thorson, editor of Horse & Rider, offered the following praise for Cherry's Becoming an Effective Rider: "With Becoming an Effective Rider, Cherry Hill shows that riding is a mental as well as a physical discipline. She teaches that mental aspect, providing what's missing in so many 'how-to' books on riding." More acclaim comes from Horse Illustrated for Cherry's Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage. "Lavishly-illustrated with large, clear photos and useful construction and landscaping plans, this book gives you enough information to plan your ranch before you actually begin breaking ground." Cherry rides year-round in the Colorado mountains and in her arena where she enjoys the logical approach to training offered by dressage. She breeds and trains horses at her Colorado ranch with her husband, equestrian illustrator and photographer Richard Klimesh.


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If you want solid how-to information, Cherry Hill delivers the goods.  — Fran Smith


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