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    The USPC Guide to Bandaging Your Horse
    The USPC Guide to Bandaging Your Horse
    The USPC Guide to Bandaging Your Horse
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    The USPC Guide to Bandaging Your Horse

    By Susan E. Harris

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    The USPC Guide to Bandaging Your Horse provides the kind of information all riders and horse owners need about leg care, bandaging, and keeping your horse's legs sound. It explains the many kinds of bandages and bandage materials, their purposes, and when to use them. Detailed drawings and step-by-step instructions teach you how to apply bandages for shipping, stable, exercise, and various treatment bandages safely and correctly. It also provides tips on the best types of bandage materials to use and making your own leg pads.

    This guide will be helpful to Pony Clubbers and other horse owners and riders as well as instructors, trainers, and grooms who are interested in learning or teaching their students about bandaging and taking care of their horses' legs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateApr 21, 2008
    ISBN9780470334164
    The USPC Guide to Bandaging Your Horse
    Author

    Susan E. Harris

    Susan E. Harris is an international clinician, riding teacher, equestrian author, and artist from Cortland, New York. She has taught all seats and styles of riding, and has trained, shown, and prepared horses and riders for competition in many equestrian disciplines, including hunters, jumpers, dressage, equitation, eventing, western pleasure and performance, saddle seat, and the pleasure and versatility breeds. Susan directed 5-H Acres School of Horsemanship, a nationally accredited riding instructor school, for 10 years, taught college equine studies and physical education equitation courses, and has been active in training and establishing certification standards for American riding instructors since the 1970s. In 2004 she was honored as a Master Instructor by the American Riding Instructor Association. A Senior Centered Riding Instructor and Clinician, Susan apprenticed with Sally Swift, the founder of Centered Riding®. She teaches clinics in Centered Riding and in Horse Gaits, Balance, and Movement for instructors, trainers, judges, and riders of all levels and riding interests. Susan's demonstrations, "Anatomy in Motion™: The Visible Horse", in which she paints the bones and muscles on a live horse, and "Anatomy in Motion: The Visible Rider™" have been popular attractions at equine expos and clinics across North America and around the world, including EquineAffaire, Equitana Australia, the American Quarter Horse Congress, the George Morris Horsemastership Clinic at Wellington, FL, and others. Susan Harris is the author and illustrator of popular horse books, including Horsemanship in Pictures, Horse Gaits, Balance, and Movement, Grooming to Win, the three U.S. Pony Club Manuals of Horsemanship, and the USPC Guides to Longeing, Bandaging, and Conformation. She writes a regular column in EQUUS Magazine, Commonsense Horsemanship with Susan Harris. With Peggy Brown, she produced two DVDs: Anatomy in Motion™ I: The Visible Horse, and Anatomy in Motion II: The Visible Rider™. Susan designed the art for the Breyer Anatomy in Motion model horse, and has illustrated many popular horse books. Susan's study of equine and human anatomy and movement as an artist as well as an instructor, rider and trainer, has given her a unique perspective on how horses and riders balance and move together. Centered Riding techniques can help riders discover how to use their bodies better for improved balance and harmony between horse and rider. Susan's knowledge of horse gaits and movement and wide experience in various breeds and disciplines enable her to help all kinds of riders and horses improve their balance, comfort, movement and performance. Her friendly and positive teaching style and visual approach help to make learning clear, understandable, and enjoyable for English and Western riders of all ages and levels, from 4-H, Pony Club and pleasure riders to instructors, trainers, and competitors. When not traveling, teaching or writing, Susan enjoys dressage, jumping, and trail riding.

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      Loved it! I especially gained much needed insight in regards to different materials needed with each type of wrap for specific circumstances and the section describing how to construct our own bandages for exercise, wounds, swelling,etc...

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    The USPC Guide to Bandaging Your Horse - Susan E. Harris

    ABOUT THE UNITED STATES PONY CLUBS INC.

    The United States Pony Clubs, Inc. is an educational youth organization that teaches riding, mounted sports, and the care of horses and ponies, and develops in youth the characteristics of responsibility, sportsmanship, moral judgment, leadership, and self-confidence.

    Since its beginning in Great Britain in 1928, Pony Club has become the largest junior equestrian group in the world, with more than 125,000 members in 27 countries. At this writing, the U.S. Pony Clubs have approximately 11,000 members in more than 500 clubs. Members ride mounts of all breeds and sizes, not just ponies; the term pony originally referred to any mount ridden by a young person.

    The U.S. Pony Clubs teach a curriculum which covers balanced seat horse-manship on the flat, over fences, and in the open, along with safety, knowledge, and practical skills in horse care and management. The goal is to produce safe, happy, and confident horsepersons, who can ride, handle, and care for their horse and equipment competently at their level, with an understanding of the reasons for what they do.

    Pony Clubbers progress at their own pace through a series of levels or ratings, from D (basic) through C (intermediate) to B, HA, and A (advanced). The requirements for each rating are called the USPC Standards of Proficiency. The lower level ratings (D-1 through C-2) are tested within the local Pony Club; the C-3 rating is tested at a Regional Testing; and the B, HA, and A levels are national ratings, requiring advanced levels of knowledge, horsemanship, and horse care and management skills.

    Besides instruction and ratings, Pony Club offers activities such as Combined Training, Foxhunting, Dressage, Mounted Games, Show Jumping, Tetrathlon, and Vaulting, with emphasis on safety, teamwork, and good horsemanship and sportsmanship.

    For more information about the U.S. Pony Clubs, please contact:

    United States Pony Clubs, Inc.

    The Kentucky Horse Park

    Iron Works Pike

    Lexington, KY 40511

    (606) 254-PONY (7669)

    INTRODUCTION

    A horse’s legs are among the most important parts of his body—and also the most vulnerable to injury. Proper leg care and protection, including bandaging when appropriate, is essential in keeping a horse sound, willing, and able to do his work.

    Bandaging (also called wrapping) is an important skill for any horseperson.

    Knowing when and how to bandage can make the difference between a sound, comfortable horse and an unsound, hurting horse. You may need to bandage your horse’s legs for protection, for warmth and comfort, to treat an injury, or to prevent swelling. Tail wraps may also be used for protection or to shape the tail for formal turnout occasions. Leg boots are often used instead of bandages for protection during exercise, turnout, and shipping.

    This book covers different types of boots and bandages, their purposes, the materials used, and how to apply them. It also includes tips on when to bandage, maintaining boots and bandages, and keeping your horse’s legs sound. This book complies with U.S. Pony Club Standards and requirements for passing Pony Club rating tests in bandaging and leg care, but it will also be helpful for anyone who owns, rides, or cares for horses, and wants to keep his horse’s legs sound.

    CAUTION: While bandaging can be helpful when done correctly, improper bandaging can cause serious harm to your horse. You must learn when to bandage, what type of bandage to use, and how to apply it correctly. This takes care, practice, and hands-on instruction from an expert; it cannot be learned just by reading a book. It is better not to bandage at all than to bandage incorrectly and risk hurting your horse.

    THE USPC GUIDE TO

    BANDAGING

    YOUR

    HORSE

    CHAPTER 1

    KEEPING YOUR HORSE’S LEGS SOUND

    Your horse’s legs are among the most important—and most vulnerable—parts of his body. Because such essential structures as bones, tendons, and ligaments are close to the surface, covered only by skin, they are at risk to injury from bumps and bangs. The lower leg structure is a complex system with many functions and is subject to athletic injuries due to stress, strains, sprains, and overwork.

    GET TO KNOW YOUR HORSE’S LEGS

    You should learn the parts and basic structures of the horse’s lower leg. (For more information on horse leg anatomy, see The United States Pony Club Manual of Horsemanship: Advanced Horsemanship [Book 3], page 251.) Make it a habit to look at and palpate (feel) your horse’s legs every day, before and after you ride him. Know how his legs normally

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