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A Photographic Guide to Conformation: New Edition
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #550139 in Books
- Published on: 2002-12-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Robert Oliver has been involved with horses all his life, specializing in the production of hunters, hacks and cobs for the show ring. He has produced many outstanding winners and is one of the best-known names in the world of showing.
Customer Reviews
Intercollegiate Judging
I bought this book for a reference while doing intercollegiate judging a few years ago. Although I learned nothing from the book's text, it was nice to use the pictures to study other structural traits.
The book does its job well - listing a few faults or good points for the majority of the pictures. It doesn't describe the traits in any detail, but an experienced horseperson wouldn't find this a problem. Intermediate riders might find the most benefit from this book, using it to strengthen pictures in their mind when learning about faults from other books or live horses. I can't see this book being overwhelming to beginners, but they might not have encountered some of the terms and colloquialisms that the author takes for granted.
I would have preferred more color photographs in the meat of the book; it would have made some of the older pictures more clear. Most color photos are "poster pictures" of different breeds and colors that seemed tacked on to the end of the book.
I did appreciate that some pictures were taken at angles. This made it a bit more useful applying studies of live horses to photographs.
In agreement with the review from Vermont
Being a somewhat beginner in the horse world, I was looking for a book that would help me in the purchase of a horse, and understand the issues of conformation. Some of the lingo used in this book is not American English, but European English, which is lost on me. The photographs are wonderful, but the descriptions - as said above - do fall short.
This book lacked detailed information to accompany the photo
This book showed several good examples of each conformation fault disscussed. The written descriptions accompanying the photos fell short. This book would make a good photo reference guide for an experienced horseperson. The lack of detailed descriptions describing common conformation faults would not help the novice.
