A $114 value! Some of the best-known names in carriage driving are at your disposal in this series of books and DVD. Robyn Cuffey's Horse & Cart DVD and it's compantion book, Essential Guide to Carriage Driving, offers a helpful tips on everything from selecting affordable beginner's carts and harness to safe driving on the road. Books by Sally Walrond, Jesse Haas and Heike Bean and Sarah Blanchard, include detailed, easy-to-follow illustrations harnessing and hitching, building strong relationships with your horse, equipment. having fun and being safe.
Getting Ready to Drive a Horse and Cart (Booklet) Jesse Haas: Introduction to selecting and training a driving horse, choosing and caring for equipment, harnessing, hitching, safe driving tips; 32 pages, 5.5x8.5 stapled booklet.
Carriage Driving (Book) Heike Bean, Sarah Blanchard: Back in print, this book has been widely considered the definitive book on the subject of carriage driving and training the driving horse. Useful for the advanced as well as beginning driver. Topics include horse mechanics, bit selection, harnessing and groundwork. Highly Recommended. 6-3/4" x 9-3/4". 288 pages. Softcover.
Essential Guide to Carriage Driving (Book) Robyn Cuffey, Jaye-Allison Winkel: This practical introduction to carriage driving discusses all aspects from recreation and parades to competition and from driving singles to multiple hitches, and covers selecting and fitting the bit and breast- or neck-collar harness, selecting an appropriate cart, carriage or sleigh, safe driving techniques, and challenging skill-building exercises—all extremely well illustrated with clear line drawings and photographs; 148 pages, 8.5x10.5 paperback.
Starting to Drive (Booklet) Sally Walrond: Full-color pictorial introduction to proper harnessing, hitching, handling lines, and safe driving; 24 pages, 7.5x9.5 stapled booklet.
Horse & Cart (DVD) Robyn Cuffey: In this video companion to her book Essential Guide to Carriage Driving, clinician Robyn Cuffey of Buxton, Maine, offers helpful tips on selecting affordable and safe combinations of beginner's cart and lightweight breast-collar pleasure driving harness for a single horse, shows variations in harness styles, explains how to apply and adjust the various harness parts and how to hitch the horse to the cart's shafts, and demonstrates safe driving on the road; 68 minute DVD. |