Gymnasium of the Horse: Fully footnoted and annotated edition.

This book isn't for the faint of heart. It is serious reading about serious riding. There are not pictures, figures, tables, or drawings. The work described in the book can be a bit technical and probably not the book for the weekend rider who hacks over a couple of fences and wants to spend the day trail riding (though there is certainly nothing wrong with that!) Instead, this book tackles some of the big issues with correctly starting young horses and working through problems and holes left in the training of most of the young horses I see people ride.

Excellent with lots of details. This is a "page at a time" study but well worth the time.

Amazing

Ir Good, but it’ll be better if it has some pictures

Interesting, technical. Did not enjoy the author's put-downs of Baucher. By the end of the book I was a little bored.

There is not a single picture or drawing in this book. It is a really hard book to read, really tecnical and professional. But if you would like to achieve the perfection of moving with the horse/in the horse like kentaur, the perfection of majestic movements like passage or piaffe, you should really read this book. It reveals, reccomend you how to highly educate your horse gradually and naturally. The author talks about the real collection achieved by gymnastising the horse by exercises such a shoulder-in, renverse, traverse etc. till it comes naturally to a collection and engagement of hindquarters... Recommend for enthusiastic riders willing to read it more than ones.

This is the best book I’ve ever bought on this subject - highly recommend as its joining all the dots for me.

Very detail explanation for a book written over 100 years ago.Amazing reading

Excellent book, but be warned it is very technical. It is the kind of book that one has to re-read over and over as one progresses in riding and understanding of the horse as there are new learnings at every single level.

One of the best horsemanship books I've ever read, a must.

thought provoking.