Recommend me a book please...

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I'd really appreciate some recs for good books for improving ground work. My new boy seems to struggle with basic concepts like moving over and back and standing still. If you ask him to move his quarters he gets very grumpy and swishes his tail and point blank refuses, think we need to go back to basics and learn some respect!

Thank you :)
 
I can't think of any off the top of my head, but if you go to amazon and search on "horses groundwork" I'm sure lots of book tiles will pop up. On some of them you can use the "look inside" function to read & review the books :) I hope that helps
 
Richard Maxwell is an author you can check out. His ideas are easy to use. Have a couple of his books. He was the Monty Roberts rep in the UK before Kelly Marks. Have used some of his ideas and they work. As he gets older, he is becoming more conventional in his approach, so if that appeals to you, get the more recent books. Cheers.
 
My friend swears by "Schooling Exercises in Hand: Working Towards Suppleness and Confidence" (yes... I copy and pasted that!) by Oliver Hilberger. Here it is on Amazon.

Not read it myself but had a flick through her copy and it does seem good.
 
Thanks so much :) Does it have the basics as well as more advanced inhand stuff? Would be great to work up to the tricky stuff, but as a starter teaching him to move his quarters without a hissy fit would be great :)
 
Richard Maxwell - Train Your Young Horse

Also any of his others really, explained well, in simple terms, very easy to understand.
 
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