Covers the basics of owning and caring for a horse, including choosing a pony, grooming, tack, feeding, and checking for and preventing health problems.

Carole and Stevie are happy to find that Lisa, the new student at Pine Hollow Stables, shares their enthusiam for riding and horses and, as their friendship grows, the three girls decide to form the Saddle Club.

This step-by-step training program for horse and rider blends together one of the most successful schooling systems in the world and the cutting-edge principles of equitation science. The highly respected German Scales of Training, which aims for lightness and self-carriage in a calm, settled horse is the basis of the system which, combined with clear instruction, makes the technique accessible to anyone. Practical explanation and exercises provide...