By Henry Blake, © 1979, 206 pages, PB

An excellent and thought-provoking book, it will give anyone involved in breaking and training horses a new insight into the animals with which they are working. Packed with down-to-earth advice for horse owners both new and experienced. Horse Sense progresses from choosing and buying a horse, to teaching it to be caught and ridden, to jump and hunt, and goes on to schooling for racing and competition. It describes how to unlearn bad habit and substitute new patterns of behaviour, and stresses that intuitive sympathy is the key to a happy relationship between horse and rider.