TarrSteps - Was it...

[TableDancer]

...Bert de Nemethy you were thinking of? Or Jack le Goff? Just bandying around French-named North American trainers from that era

This relates to the UncleJr XC Words of Wisdom thread if anyone is confused, but that has disappeared so far down as to be lost for ever

 

[TarrSteps]

Ah, you were thinking for me. I like that in a friend.

No, none of the "big names" (although de Nemethy's book is great), and younger than those two, I think. I believe he mostly does hunters (our show kind, not the kind here) and doesn't show much but is one of those people you never hear of who trains lots of people you hear of all the time.

Will keep thinking . . . I can see the book, I even know what box it's in . . . .3500 miles away.

 

[TarrSteps]

Ha ha!

<u>The Handbook of Jumping Essentials</u>
by Francois Lemaire De Ruffieu

The basis of the book is what SC was saying about getting to a "box" in front of the fence, with the correct canter, position etc. It's very simple - I'd say 100ish pages - and broken down into sequential chapters/exercises. I'll confess it's been years since I read it (and now years since I've even seen it

. . . I miss my books) but remember it being extremely useful.

 

[kerilli]

sounds good, just grabbed 1 on amazon, thanks TS and TD.
always on the lookout for something that will say it just right so that the idea'll crystallise in my mind and stick there!