title: The Undisciplined Horse
author:  Ulrik Schramm 
description: Understanding why horses develop behavioral and training problems starts with a good basic understanding of horse psychology. As the author, a veterinarian and leading horseman, states, riding is not truly a sport if unity of mind does not exist between horse and rider. The modern loss of general "horse knowledge" has contributed to a loss of rapport between horse and rider, and to a loss of empathy for what a horse is feeling or thinking. Schramm therefore approaches the correction of vices (ranging from kicking or pulling to outright lawlessness such as bucking or rearing) with a basic discussion of why the horse has learned to act out in this manner. No horse is a born wind sucker or biter; they learn these behaviors through incorrect handling. Schramm's commonsense advice is clearly stated, and the psychology behind both the vice and its remedy carefully explained. Translated from German, the book has a European feel; but horse psychology is universal, and genuine horsemanship is multinational. An excellent selection for libraries with equestrian patrons. <i>Nancy Bent</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: Scanned by Highroller. Proofed more or less by Highroller.
  PROLOGUE
  Raibert Armstrong sat his fine, tall, long-legged horse—spoils of this
  extended reaving—atop a low-browed ridge, just above the sleeping camp
  of his largish band. Every so often, he would take the slowmatch from
  out the clamp and whirl it around several times in the air before once
  more securing it back into the serpentine of his clumsy arquebus, for
  if that scurvy, ill-natured pig of a Seosaidh Scot who had robbed him
  of his well-earned sleep and set him to this useless, thankless task
  should come by and find his match unlit, he surely would set about
  thrashing Raibert. And Raibert would then have to kill the bully and
  then, even if he were fortunate enough to escape north to Armstrong
  lands, he would be forever marked as the man who brought back into
  being the long, costly, bloody feud betwixt the two clans, and it ended
  but less than a score of years.
  Of a sudden, the horse raised its well-formed head and snorted, d