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This book gives step-by-step instruction of the training that has produced a record roster of champions for author Helen K. Crabtree. Her students have included twelve winners of either the AHSA Medal Final or the NHS "Good Hands" or both. Mrs. Crabtree discusses selection of the instruction horse, equipment and clothing, the aids, preparation for the first show, programs for practice, purchase of the first equitation horse, and performance in the ring. Her instructions are clear, precise, enlivened with examples from her experience, and numerous photographs illustrate her points graphically and present with informative comments the leading riders and their teachers through the past decade. Helen K. Crabtree has trained three-and five-gaited horses and ponies to seventeen World's Championships, is the only trainer ever to retire the Waldorf-Astoria Trophy in the five-gaited stake at the National Horse Show, and in 1965 was chosen Horsewoman of the Year by the American Horse Shows Association.