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Be with Your Horse Paperback – May 1, 2005

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Get your relationship right with your horse and he'll try to get it right with you, too. It's not about following steps to success or special equipment. It's about very subtle signs that show him you are on his side, and when you're with him he can let you take responsibility for his safety. This is the heart of great horsemanship. Be With Your Horse is a clear and accessible guide to finding the best relationship with your horse. Tom Widdicombe invites the reader to embark on a search for the perfect partnership, learning how to make your horse a willing friend, and find the balance between leadership and respect. The book is full of practical advice applicable to all horse owners and horse lovers, and peppered with accounts of Tom's own experiences with horses and how they shaped his ideas about training horses and humans to achieve a greater understanding of one another
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    192 pages
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    David & Charles
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    May 1, 2005
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    5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0715320203
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0715320204
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ David & Charles (May 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0715320203
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0715320204
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.97 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches
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michelle garrett
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2020
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EXCELLENT book. I learned a lot from it! Highly recommend it to others 😊
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sgw
5.0 out of 5 stars the only horse book you need
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2013
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I have learned more from this one book than all the other books I have read on training and riding your horse. It is so simple and we make it so complicated. but it isn't complicated. read this book if you want to have a better relationship with your horse.
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baronsbo
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2013
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this book really speaks to me. I don't like reading books over again, but I have read this four times. It is so insightful and gives good examples of what the author is trying to get across.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Keeper
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2015
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This book does what the title hints at. Shows you how to be accepted as a compmetent handler by the horse.
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Lucinda
5.0 out of 5 stars An indispensable guide for all horse owners and those keen to improve their relationship with their horse.
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2013
This wonderful book with its exquisite hand-drawn illustrations is a pocket book packed with insightful information and handy tips, about creating the best relationship and bond possible with your horse. Tom Widdicombe teaches one how to craft a perfect relationship by showing you the way to make your horse a willing friend, as well as how to achieve a balance between leadership and respect. Similar to `Parelli' and `Natural Horsemanship' (i.e. Monty Roberts and Kelly Marks ~ Intelligent Horsemanship), this comprehensive guide is filled with natural techniques which address the horse's natural instincts.

The foundation of any successful horse and rider partnership (i.e for example Red and Seabiscuit or Pippa Funnell and Sir Barnaby), is that connection between man and beast and that mutual understanding. It is magical when you and your horse are able to communicate and respect one another; hence understanding how horses communicate with each other is the key to achieving this ~ after all, a horse is NOT a human nor does the horse communicate as we do. This book explains in detail how horses and humans work in harmony together and even more importantly how good it feels when you gain your horse's understanding and trust!

Points explored include...
* `soft ropes, soft hands = soft horses' ~ not using force.
* Clarity, understanding and time
* Learning, dealing with reality (as apposed to fantasy) and taking responsibility

Also included is a section which has a list of questions regarding some problems that you may have encountered with your horse and various solutions, such as; horse/ human behavior, striving for perfection and rider/ handler confidence.

This fantastic book is simply a guide which aims to help all horse owners, riders and those who work with horses gain maximum fulfillment and satisfaction. With the combination of good comprehension and a willingness to cope with challenges and mistakes, your relationship with your horse should improve and become stronger. I am constantly amazed by how this prey animal is so willing to allow us humans (the predator) to show them, guide them and even ride them ~ therefore as a `thank you' I feel that it is only kind to respect the horse and try our best to recognize their natural instincts and work with their natural behavior.
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Breakfast
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, thoughtful, inspiring
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2005
In this book Tom Widdicombe mixes brief stories from his working life with horses and explanations of how and why people and horses can work together successfully. He is not pushing a particular system or style of training- there are no sets of exercises here and time and again he observes that completely different approaches can yield equally successful results- but in his clear, easy-going way his writing gets as close to the essence of horsemanship as anything I have ever read. The anecdotes that illustrate his ideas or raise questions for the reader have a parable-like quality that leaves you thinking about them long after you have put the book down. His honest, down-to-earth explanations of how he has learned to work with horses and how he has helped other people to work with them will show you things you had never noticed about how you relate to them in your life.

Time and again, from many different directions, he returns to the point that horses are simple animals and that it is us who make them complicated. He never wanders off into incomprehensible spiritual meanderings, he just describes the things he has seen and felt and learned through experience and through observation. Rather than offering any kind of fixed system or rules he suggests that you make your own decisions and take responsibility for your own choices.

Reading this will make you want to go out and just spend time with your horse. It is a brilliant book- profoundly simple yet simply profound.
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Steve D. Hale
5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect gem
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2007
Even if you are a participant in the growing "Natural Horsemanship" movement, (as am I) you will find lots of valuable insight in this little volume.
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Manda Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for UK horse owners
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2007
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In constrast to some of the other reviewers, I found this an immensely useful book - if every horse owner in the UK read it, understood it (which wouldn't be hard, it has to be one of the most lucidly written of the current crop of NH books) *and applied what they'd read*, horse ownership in this country would be revolutionised. I speak as a vet and a horse owner who despairs of people who understand nothing of horse behaviour or human-horse interaction - it's not their fault, they've simply never been taught. But here is that teaching, laid out in plain English. In brief, maintain your personal space and gain control over the horse's movement on the ground - but how many people can actually do that? How many have horses that walk over them or can't bend or can't even stop reliably? Go to any horse show and watch. It's not a pretty sight.

The great difference between this and, say, the books by the Dorrance brothers (which say much the same thing, only in long-winded, impenetrable american-ese) is that it's written in English, by an Englishman who deals with English horses in England, not by a cowboy who finds it useful to devote and entire chapter to telling you how to tie on a rope halter and fix mecate reins. This book doesn't assume you've been riding the range since you were born or that you have a thousand acres of Nevada desert to ride in. It starts from the premise of someone who came to horses later in life and learned what we all need to know. Get it, read it, understand it, use it... your life with your horse will be different.
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Equi-Insight
5.0 out of 5 stars With every penny, blows all other books out the water. Buy it now!!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 11, 2012
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I have been compelled to write a review of this book because it is one of the most helpful and clearly written on this subject - and I have read many others! I own two horses and work with Equine Facilitated development for business people and for horse owners. This book manages to capture everything that describes why the relationship between people and horses works, or doesn't work. Finally an excellent book which highlights what horses need from us and how we as humans can offer this to them. No join up, no chasing round a pen, no trying to mimic the horses own body language in the herd. Simply UNDERSTANDING a horse is a horse, and will interpret, learn, behave based purely on that fact. What we have to do is change our human interpretations of their behaviour into how a horse (prey animal, survival instincts, need for security etc.) sees a situation. Only then can we provide what they need to succeed. Tom Widdicombe writes in a flowing and non-patronising way. He avoids falling into the overly spiritual trap many of this kind of text fall into. By the time you have finished reading it you will feel like he is a friend with an excellent pot of advice to share. Most importantly this book is not a quick fix of tricks. It recognises that every horse and person is an individual and we all have to find a way to work which suits us. He offers only the principles of good horsemanship which I promise you, if you think about how you might apply them in your equestrian pursuits you will see and feel improvements by the bucket load! An absolute must read, if not for you, read it for the sake of your horse!
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margaret warner
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2015
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melly
3.0 out of 5 stars an ok book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2012
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This was an ok book a little bit long winded took a while to get to the point. I have a lot of natural horsemanship books which are really good but this isnt one of them. The author obviously knew his stuff and did seem to genuinely care so the fact I didnt like this book is not meant to be direspectful.
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