Horse Book Designing Jump Courses Vintage.

Horse Book for intermediate to advanced equestrian jumping riders. Vintage, educational, academic, competition, horse shows. Full title: Designing Courses and Obstacles. Show Jumping: Pamela Carruthers Hunter Seat Equitation: George H. Morris Hunters: Chrystine Jones Hogan Eventing: Bill Thomson. Horse book for riders, trainers, judges, instructors, pony club, and all levels of equestrians who wish to design safe jumping courses. Show jumping, hunter seat equitation, hunters, eventing. 1978 Hardback with pictorial dust cover. Cover photo: J. Michael Plumb on Good Mixture at 1974 Burghley World Championship. 162 pages. Edited by John H Fritz. Houghton Mifflin. Four world famous course designers provide this much needed handbook for designing safe and challenging courses, and building the individual jumps. Essential for all equestrian libraries, vintage horse book collectors, and horse enthusiasts. Excellent for beginning course designers, explaining properly designed courses to bring out the best in the competition. Describes how to avoid unsafe jumps, dangerous traps, wrong striding, and courses too difficult or too easy for the horses entered. Excellent for young show jumping riders and managers, describing how designers set up the basic problems they have to meet in competitions. Price firm unless bundled. Weight 1.25 lbs. A couple of tiny tears on edge of dust cover. A few dog ears. Outstanding condition. Gorgeous green cloth hardback with gold title on spine.