The Shire Horse

The Shire Horse
Author: Keith Chivers
Publisher: J.A. Allen
Total Pages: 968
Release: 1976
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

The Shire Horse

The Shire Horse
Author: Wendy Sue Elliott
Publisher: ShieldCrest
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 191109002X

Matt is a humble farm hand who leaves home against his parents’ wishes to better his lot in life. He and Sarah meet and fall in love after he saves the life of Tom, a ploughman working on Wellern’s Farm where she lives. When Sarah is almost raped by her guardian Jack Wellern, his long-suffering wife takes her far away, telling no-one where they have gone for fear he might find them. In the years to come, Matt and Sarah’s lives take a completely different course and they both rise in business and society encountering loss, heartache, tragedy and deception along the way. But despite everything they never forget each other until, almost 25 years later, fate throws them together again in a most unexpected way.

The Book of Draft Horses

The Book of Draft Horses
Author: Donna Campbell Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781493022472

A celebration of Clydesdales, Percherons, Belgians and other heavy horse breeds.

Horses & Ponies

Horses & Ponies
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0744047242

The ultimate visual guide for children passionate about all things equine, covering just about anything and everything horse related Calling all horse lovers! This horse book for kids is a one-stop-shop for equine knowledge, from their history, anatomy, breeds, how to care for them, their social significance, and more! Inside the pages of this children’s book about all things equestrian you will find: • Informative features on all the major horse and pony breeds from the enormous Dutch Draught Horse to the tiny Argentine Falabella • Beautiful images of magnificent horses found across the world • Lessons about the usefulness of horses across different cultures from sport, shows, traditions, and celebrations, to transport, police work, and even shrimp-fishing! • Extensive information and step-by-step instructions on how to ride these magnificent animals and horse care From the difference between horses and ponies to why horses sleep standing up, this comprehensive guide explores every horsey topic you could want to explore! Colorful photographs and pictures on every page include many different horses and pony breeds, from Shetland ponies, shire horses, and thoroughbreds and highlights their importance in our world today. Kids will learn how to care for horses and understand them, covering topics such as grooming a horse, how to muck out a stable, and looking after tack. The book also explores horse skills and will answer questions about riding horses and ponies, such as what dressage is, how to steer a horse, and much more!

Horses in Society

Horses in Society
Author: Margaret Elsinor Derry
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802091121

Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse. Horses in Society is the story of horse production in the United States, Britain, and Canada at the height of the species' usefulness, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century. Margaret E. Derry shows how horse breeding practices used during this period to heighten the value of the animals in the marketplace incorporated a intriguing cross section of influences, including Mendelism, eugenics, and Darwinism. Derry elucidates the increasingly complex horse world by looking at the international trade in army horses, the regulations put in place by different countries to enforce better horse breeding, and general aspects of the dynamics of the horse market. Because it is a story of how certain groups attempted to control the market for horses, by protecting their breeding activities or 'patenting' their work, Horses in Society provides valuable background information to the rapidly developing present-day problem of biological ownership. Derry's fascinating study is also a story of the evolution of animal medicine and humanitarian movements, and of international relations, particularly between Canada and the United States.

Album of Horses

Album of Horses
Author: Marguerite Henry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1481442589

Originally published: Chicago: Rand McNally, c1951.

Discovering Horse Brasses

Discovering Horse Brasses
Author: John Vince
Publisher: Shire Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-06-22
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780747804802

Horse brasses are flat, generally round, ornaments for decorating the harness of draught horses. First devised as charms to keep the animal safe, brasses later became purely decorative. This book traces the history of horse brasses, from the plain, simple early examples through to the more advanced brasses that were developed as our knowledge of brass casting improved. Packed with over 200 photographs of different horse brasses, this classic title is an ideal collector's introduction, and a section on the care, cleaning and renovation of horse brasses makes this essential reading for new collectors.