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An Ounce of Prevention
Thirty million people ride horses every year.
Some of them get hurt. Some even die.
These are grim facts for people who love horses. They are startling for the family whose little girl is looking for her first horse. And they are very personal statistics for the friends and family of those people who were injured or killed while working with their horses.
Connected with every one of these numbers is a story. And while some accidents may be unavoidable; Sinclair Browning, co-author of Lyons on Horses, contends that the majority can be prevented with a little knowledge.
“Over the years any time I have heard about a wreck with horses I have always asked,” Browning writes, "How did it happen?"
She spent years gathering stories from people throughout the country who had accidents with horses. Add her 50 years of horse experience and the result is An Ounce of Prevention.
Covering subjects such as the horse’s nature, instinct and pecking order, to safe ground, equipment and riding rules, the book is a How to manual that everyone working around horses should have. Just the chapter on “Safe Trailering” is worth the price of the book, not to mention many times less expensive than a visit to the Emergency Room.
“The anecdotes here,” Browning writes, “no matter how farfetched, are real. They are real events that happened to real people and real horses.
“They are included here so you can sit in your most comfortable reading chair, with your feet propped up and have a vicarious wreck.”
Good advice indeed.
That way you don’t have to have the real thing.
Some of them get hurt. Some even die.
These are grim facts for people who love horses. They are startling for the family whose little girl is looking for her first horse. And they are very personal statistics for the friends and family of those people who were injured or killed while working with their horses.
Connected with every one of these numbers is a story. And while some accidents may be unavoidable; Sinclair Browning, co-author of Lyons on Horses, contends that the majority can be prevented with a little knowledge.
“Over the years any time I have heard about a wreck with horses I have always asked,” Browning writes, "How did it happen?"
She spent years gathering stories from people throughout the country who had accidents with horses. Add her 50 years of horse experience and the result is An Ounce of Prevention.
Covering subjects such as the horse’s nature, instinct and pecking order, to safe ground, equipment and riding rules, the book is a How to manual that everyone working around horses should have. Just the chapter on “Safe Trailering” is worth the price of the book, not to mention many times less expensive than a visit to the Emergency Room.
“The anecdotes here,” Browning writes, “no matter how farfetched, are real. They are real events that happened to real people and real horses.
“They are included here so you can sit in your most comfortable reading chair, with your feet propped up and have a vicarious wreck.”
Good advice indeed.
That way you don’t have to have the real thing.
Nook
First published September 3, 2010
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