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Pony club secrets volume 5, 6
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491 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
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English
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Presents two stories featuring Issie in which she tries to train Comet the pony to be a champion showjumper and competes in a race to rescue Storm, a stolen colt.
2) A good horse
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246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack, when it comes to light that his dam might have been stolen.
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Veronica's father, Mr. DiAngelo, saves Pine Hollow from going broke by becoming an investor and training his young racehorse, Windsong, at the stables for the Belmont Cup. Carole becomes concerned about Windsong's erratic behavior, and with the other members of the Saddle Club, sets out to help the horse.When Windsong misses the race, Mr. DiAngelo is unable to give Pine Hollow any more help as he has lost too much money, and even Veronica will have...
10) Crossfire
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English
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Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire?
11) Stormy
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34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Hannah and Becky are show jumping rivals, although Becky's Appaloosa, Stormy, is not as good at it as Hannah's horse, until one day an injury means Hannah cannot ride, and she begins to take an interest in Becky's efforts to train Stormy.
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231 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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Working with horses can be a transformative experience. Their soft eyes, wild spirit, and shy honesty offer a glimpse of how entirely different the horse's mind is from our own. Allan J. Hamilton, a neurosurgeon and a pioneer in equine-assisted therapy, distills in 112 short essays what horses have taught him about forgiveness, true leadership, courage, and love.--COVER.
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1 videodisc (approximately 70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Transported from France, a valuable show horse arrives at Pine Hollow, the mysterious owner to arrive later. When the champion horse escapes, Carole, Stevie, and Lisa take it upon themselves to help find him. The girls do find Hugo, the horse, unveil their surprise birthday party for Carole, and learn that the horse's owner is none other than French dressage champion Dorothée Doutey. Six months ago she fell in competition breaking her pelvis, but...
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English
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Many horse trainers feel that horses who fail to obey a human's request are doing so as much out of perversity as ignorance. That's not Mark Rashid's view: "If we understand that horses can't separate the way they feel from the way they act, then we can start to see that unwanted behavior isn't bad behavior at all. More times than not, it's just the horse expressing the way he feels at that particular moment." This book covers such subjects as gathering...
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1volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"A picture book biography of Dr. William Key, a former slave and self-trained veterinarian who taught his horse, Jim, to read and write and who together with Jim became one of the most famous traveling performance acts around the turn of the twentieth century. Includes afterword and author's sources"--
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247 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"An alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many - the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addiction, emotionally, physically, and financially shattered. Ginger Gaffney's job is to retrain the untrainable. With time, the horses...
17) Country strong
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Painted Pony Creek volume 1
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331 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Cord Hollister is a true cowboy at heart. As a man who has devoted his life to training horses under the big skies of Montana, he thrives on the stability of ranch life. But when a girl arrives in Painted Pony Creek with a shocking secret, Cord's orderly life is upended. She's the spitting image of the first woman who broke his heart - a woman he hasn't seen in years - and he'll do whatever he can to help her. He just can't do it alone. Shallie Fletcher...
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434 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Now with full-color photography and illustrations throughout, the completely updated third edition of Storey's Guide to Raising Horses is the most comprehensive horse husbandry handbook available, whether you're a first-time owner or an experienced horse handler. Covering everything you need to know about facilities, breeding, and health care, this new edition features a photographic gallery of many types of horses; expanded material on recognizing,...
19) Buck
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"... a richly textured and visually stunning film, follows Buck Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. A real-life 'horse-whisperer', he eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. Buck possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms horses - and people - with his understanding, compassion...
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