Synopsis
It can be rather overwhelming to be a first time horse owner in South Africa! The objective of this South African based book is to empower you, the first time horse owner, to not only know and fully understand the intricacies of what it takes to comprehensively care, manage and train a horse, but also to avoid the many pitfalls in the process of acquiring a horse, maintaining a horse or even buying tack.
The Introduction to Horse Ownership in South Africa will give you the fundamental knowledge to appreciate what is actually your responsibility in, caring, maintaining, training and possibly retraining your horse.
We believe knowledge is power! A good match between horse and owner will result in both happy humans and horses. One of our own personal ambitions is to strive to improve the long-term welfare and living conditions for all horses, so that fewer horses will be misunderstood, mistreated and sold on.