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Chosen by a Horse: a memoir

Publisher: Soho Press
Authors: Susan Richards

ISBN: 1569474192
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Summary: Excellent
this is one of the best books I have read! Endearing and touching by far! she did an excellent job of writing this book. This is an excellent rememberence of Lay Me Down.
Summary: Perfect
Perfect candor, perfect pacing, perfect writing, perfect horse for the perfect moment in a human's life. Nothing but admiration for the book, the writer, and the horses.
Summary: Beautiful story
This book was wonderful, could not put it down. A beat down horse and a love-leary woman find themselves together. Any horse lover will find themselves nodding their heads or chuckling in agreement at some of the situations Susan and her equine friends find themselves. In the end, this book is really about love ... love of a horse, for a horse, for life ... this horse should've been named Jesus.
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Exotic Betting: How to Make the Multihorse, Multirace Bets that Win Racing's Biggest Payoffs

Publisher: DRF Press
Authors: Steven Crist

ISBN: 1932910921
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Summary: Another good one from Crist.
Steven Crist, Exotic Betting: How to Make the Multihorse, Multirace Bets that Win Racing's Biggest Payoffs (DRF Press, 2006)

There are a whole lot of books out there about how to select winning horses. There are very few about how to responsibly bet them. (Offhand, I can only think of two authors who have covered this subject in any detail-- Mark Cramer and Barry Meadow.) Steve Crist dives into that water with Exotic Betting. As the title suggests, he focuses on exotic bets.

While those who have been reading Crist in column form for years aren't likely to find much in here they haven't already seen, it's nice to have all of this stuff collected into one volume. Horse grading, syndicates, main and backup tickets, all the stuff he's been telling us about forever in one book. A handy reference manual, as it were. *** ½
Summary: The Most Important Horseplaying Book in 30 Years
If you've ever picked nearly 37% winners over three months, or picked nine in a row, including a 15-1 shot, and still have gone home stooping for tickets in your Hanes, this book is for you.

Wise, relentlessly tested,"Exotic Betting" has an almost Buddhistic approach to thoroughbred wagering: Lose the ego, the King-of-the-Handicappers mentality, allow yourself to be wrong in the right spots and then bam, you're on your way.

Not since Andrew Beyer's "Picking Winners" 30 years ago has a book given horseplayers more hope. An obvious must.
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Behold a Pale Horse

Publisher: Light Technology Publications
Authors: William Cooper Milton William Cooper

ISBN: 0929385225
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Summary: Diary of a madman.
It's not too difficult to understand how "Behold a Pale Horse" has become "the best selling underground book of all time"(according to a blurb on one pro-Cooper website)--after all, people want to(and do) believe in outlandish things. The problem with the late Bill Cooper's book is that it damages any serious attempt to examine the reasonable premise that every aspect of world affairs is controlled by a handful of wealthy, powerful men. Cooper believed this, Cooper was a nut...therefore it follows that everyone who agrees with the basic hypothesis is a nut, too. Rightly or wrongly, this is what people believe. (If you're looking for a serious treatment of this subject, albeit from the POV of someone who thought it was a good thing, take a gander at Carroll Quigley's monumental "Tragedy and Hope".)
To all the "if you can't handle the truth, don't read this book!" reviewers who know little to nothing about Bill Cooper: I invite you to do a Google search on the man and acquaint yourselves with another truth, the real truth. Milton William Cooper was a certifiable headcase. Numerous former friends and acquaintances have described him as a hard-drinking, ill-tempered, violent man who was incredibly easy to fool. Cooper's contention that John F. Kennedy was killed by William Greer, the driver of his limo in Dallas, is of course well-known...but he also believed, and told audiences at his lectures, that the aliens on the Fox television show "Alien Nation" were real aliens. He wasn't kidding. Cooper would hear or read an outlandish tidbit of information, then take it--and repeat it!--as gospel. Fellow "fringe" writers and researchers like Bob Lazar shunned Cooper after he accused them of being government agents who were out to discredit him. There was, of course, no need for anyone else to discredit him: he took care of that himself. Nowhere in this rambling patchwork quilt of a book(mostly documents and articles from other sources, really, with a comment here and there by Cooper himself) is there a shred of proof to back up his extraordinary claims. Cooper made no attempt to verify the info he included, and it would have been impossible to do so in almost every instance, anyhow.
I'll go on record as saying that I believe the circumstances of Cooper's death were suspicious. I feel badly for the man because he came to such an ignoble end, and because his affection for his wife and daughter is so evident in the foreword to "Pale Horse". This was a human being with real feelings...but he was very, very disturbed. There are countless other books which examine this subject more rationally; so many that "Behold a Pale Horse" should NEVER become any conspiracy theorist's bible.

Summary: Mind Boggling, Scary....
There is some who would say that Bill is a right wing gun waving nutcase like one reviewer below. But I just think he/she/it is a liberal dupe. There is also lots and I mean lots of conservative dupes. I'd say Bill is eccentric and some of this book is blather. To dismiss it on the whole because of a couple of space cadet ramblings would be wrong. There is concrete proof that there is a cabal of men in high places mainly the international bankers who are bent on world control and domination. Their arm is the unconstitutional private bank the Federal Reserve who has a strangle hold on the econmy and can cause recessions and depressions with edicts. Do your homework and you'll see the crash of 29' was no accident. The IRS is also illegal so is the income tax which is used to pay the interest on the debt to the international bankers. Now I don't know about the Illuminati or Skull and Bones stuff but it is a big possibilty that their connected. This book covers it all. Not for establishment liberals or conservatives who wish to believe whats on the surface. This is for people like me who want to dig where the dirt, slime and worms are. As for Bill's death its up in the air there is a possibilty that the cops shot him because he shot first. Theres also the other that the authorites shot him as a undesirable and some say the court records concur with this. Either way this book is a good and informative read.
Summary: every liberal
and every american should read this book then pass it on to bush his friends and family members!
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Arthur & George

Publisher: Knopf
Authors: Julian Barnes

ISBN: 030726310X
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Summary: Gets Better and Better!
I wasn't too excited about reading this book but soon changed my mind. This is a great novel, based on the true, intersecting lives of a famous author and a sort of common man. The writing is excellent. I especially enjoyed the parallel telling of each man's life until they finally intersect. I purposely did not read the dust jacket, so I actually did not know at first who the famous author was. I think that, along with the initially unknown background of George, added to my enjoyment.
Summary: Only George comes to life
"Arthur and George" is a novelist's reconstruction of the lives of two Victorian era individuals whose lives interesected: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a man he helped prove innocent of the crime for which he was in prison: GeorgeEdalji. Had Julian Barnes been assigned this subject as an exercise, I would have given his effort more credit than I do. Barnes does a wonderful job with George, but I found his Arthur interesting, but lifeless: perhaps Barnes was too constrained by what is known about the real world figure. As a detective story - the investigation of the crime George was alleged to have committed - the novel definitely has its moments, and the social history is a plus. Still, the novel too often plods along. For a much richer novel, which also provides a slice of Victorian era social history, I recommend "English Passengers" by Matthew Kneale
Summary: Just stunning writing
This is the first book I have read by Julian Barnes. His writing is such a joy to experience. His sense of place and time is flawless. The Victorian era in England becomes at once real and understandable to an American. The question of honor is fist and foremost on the minds and lives of these two men.

Both George and Arthur have to struggle to maintain their honor both to themselves and the larger world outside. Unfortunately, George is wrongly convicted of a crime and when released from prison finds himself unable to take up his former life of a solicitor.
It takes Sir Arthur, with his fame and connections to create public support to have the conviction overturned. But Arthur's entry into this battle is not without a self-serving purpose.

Arthur is suffering from guilt over the death of his wife after a 13-year bout of consumption. During that 13 year period of time Arthur meets another woman and soon has to struggle as to what his family, honor and duty that is demanded of him. He is in torment. Taking up George's cause in some way is a diversion from his moral pains and is an overt display of being the honorable public figure taking up the cause of a poor unfortunate.

The writing is without question brilliant. As I said this is my first Julian Barnes book. The great thing is that I can go back and read his other novels (Flaubert's Parrot and History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, etc.). I estimate that I should be able to read his body of work just in time to be ready for his next published work. Why he has not won a Booker Prize is a mystery...maybe his next one.
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All the Pretty Horses (Vintage International)

Publisher: Vintage
Authors: Cormac Mccarthy

ISBN: 0679744398
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Summary: A highly agrivating pile of schlock
Frustrated authors take note, you can be published and you don't even have to worry about little details such as punctuation, sentence clarity, story, structure or grammar. Cormac McCarthy proves it eloquently with "All the Pretty Horses." Had McCarthy ever bothered to revise this draft he might of had a story, however he just cranked it out of his typewriter or computer put a stamp on it and shot it over to some publisher, who was either drunk or high or both, who thought "What the hell, let's print a really awful story and promote the hell out of it. I'm sure people will buy it, after all Americans don't care about grammar anyway."
I'm not going to dive into the plot of the story- you can read it above. This book falls short of one of the best in literature. How they compare this guy to Faulkner is beyond me, the comparrison is an insult to Faulkner and people who read books in general. Most fifth graders can write better, more enthralling naratives.

Summary: Powerful and Moving
When I read this book, I was completely impressed with the author's power to draw you into the scene of the story. I mean, I was seeing mountains and open grass lands and beautiful horses - and I've never seen them in real life. This book is very well-written, and the imagery is powerful and moving.

The main character, Cole, is chasing after a lifestyle that has passed. A life that is no more. He wants beauty in the world; all he finds is pain and sorrow. And maybe that is the way it is for all of us. We want what he wants, but reality crushes our view that this world can be made perfect if only this could happen...if only that could happen...It cannot. This is one of the most powerful themes in the book: we are all chasing a life that in many ways cannot exist in this world.
Summary: Strang dreamland to the south
This, the first book in Mccarthy's reputation making border trilogy, is what every novel should be: a good story told well.
The book follows the adventures of a young boy as he travels with his best friend to mexico. Mexico in this novel is an ambiguous place and seems to be the last bastion, at least in the boys' minds, of a way of life that problebly never existed. The thing that breaks with other such narritives is that Mccarthy does not write in stone why the boys decide to leave their country. There is no hidden treasure one of the boys hear about or some crime they are tring to escape,they just go and you as a reader, I promise, will follow with them even when the going gets tough. And all the Cormac fans know that this writer's tough is a whole different monster than the standard breed to be found in most books.
This may not be his best book, but that is like saying Portrait is not Joyce's best. McCarthy is a writer who will be remembered as someone who contributed something genuine to American letters. A must for any fan of literature or the western in general.
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Horse Anatomy: A Coloring Atlas

Publisher: Alpine Publications
Authors: Robert A. Kainer Thomas O. McCracken

ISBN: 1577790219
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Summary: Wonderful learning tool!
I am an instructor/trainer and this book is wonderful for informing students how the horses body is put together and why some horses move differently than others. It also gives the student a chance to see the inside workings of the horse so that they better understand the vet and farrier when they have to explain what is wrong with the horse and treatment options. This book would also benefit anyone who wants to know more about the horse's anatomy. Not to mention it is fun to color!
Summary: Nice Muscle Sketches
I wish that I had this book last year. I did a muscle and joint force project for which I needed detailed muscle diagrams of the horse's hindquarters. When I needed the illustrations, of course, I could not find any that had the appropriate level of detail (not online, through videos, books, etc). For this reason when I recently saw this book it. I would strongly recommend that any other rider or person with a starting interest in horse healthcare do the same. This is an excellent addition to a equine reference library.

My version is spiral bound and had clear crisp black and white illustrations that can be xeroxed or colored in.
Summary: perfectly simple
The coloring atlas of horse anatomy is a wonderful tool for the study and understanding of the horse anatomy. It is presented to the viewer in a form of simplicity but at the same time with unmatchable professionalism and details, evidently the author has a great respect, knowledge and understanding of the noble animal and the viewer as well. The atlas is easily approachable by the first time student for its easy and clear graphical and illustrative format. The idea of "do it yourself" it's great. Coloring the components of the horse anatomy while studying it helps the anatomist to impress the subject in his/her mind with remarkable and undeleting results. One of his kind. Without any doubt necessary for a serious study of the horse anatomy.
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The Principles of Horseshoeing III

Publisher: Doug Butler Enterprises
Authors: Doug Butler jacob Butler Dr. Doug Butler

ISBN: 0916992268
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101 Jumping Exercises for Horse & Rider

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Authors: Linda Allen Dianna Robin Dennis

ISBN: 1580174655
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Summary: A Great Book To Keep In Your Tack Room!
I have started to do some of these exercises with my Appaloosa gelding. He is ten, but has gone western the two years he has been trained and is very ignorant of english riding skills.

I have been doing these exercises with him, and it really worked! He is now on his way to being a confident jumper. It was pretty easy, too. We set up the cavaletti and cross-rail grids, and followed the patterns described. I am now proud to say I have a hunter in training. This book is highly reccomended to everyone; whether your horse is a confident jumper, or just learning, 101 Jumping Exercises For Horse And Rider is a great source to jumping exercises!
Summary: 101 Jumping Exercises for Horse & Rider
I bought the book originally to add some variety to my training sessions and to obtain ideas on different exercises. Now both my trainer and I do not jump without the book close by. The different grid exercises have added so much to our workouts! Not only has it helped our horses become more confident it has helped our equitation tremendously. I would highly recommend this book for both beginers and the more experienced rider!
Summary: Perfect book for the hunter/jumper
I have a fairly green horse, and this book is an amazing help to getting her back and over fences. You can spend more time riding now, instead of having to always think up your own exercises. This book is well worth the money and I would invest in it in a heartbeat if I didn't already own it.
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