This follow-up to How Your Horse Wants You to Ride helps intermediate to advanced riders improve their communication with their mounts and polish their overall riding skills. Readers get a complete tutorial–much of which can be found nowhere else–on taking their riding skills to the next level.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: What’s in the Book, Where It Came from, Why You Need to Know It.

PART I: Building Trust Through Ground Work.

1 The Stone Horse: Working in the Barn.

2 The Following Horse: Moving Around the Farm.

3 The Floating Horse: Playing in the Arena.

PART II Riding So Your Horse Likes It Too.

4 Clothing, Tack, and Mounting: Starting Out Right Is the Key.

5 Make Yourselves Comfortable: Sitting on the Horse Without Stirrups.

6 Making Conversation: Listening as Well as Talking.

7 The Quiet Aids: Making Yourself Heard Without Shouting.

8 Reins Without Borders: Giving Up Control and Developing Soft Hands.

PART III Setting Out into the Real World.

9 Stirrup Stuff: Sitting or Standing, Be Solid and Secure.

10 Rein Effects: Looking at Rein Aids from a Different Angle.

11 Hills and Cavaletti: Preparing for the Great Outdoors,

12 The Real Fun Begins: Cantering and Galloping.

13 Jumping Made Easy: The Half Seat Revisited.

14 More About Jumping: Getting There Is Half the Fun.

15 Cheerful Confidence: Going Where You Want to Go, Effortlessly.

Afterword: It All Comes Down to You.

Appendix A: Making and Fitting a Neck Strap.

Appendix B: Useful Knots.

Appendix C: Resources.

Index.