The Tack Room by Paula Sells
Polo, horse-racing, show jumping, endurance riding, ploughing, pit ponies, mounted police, carriage driving, seaside donkeys all these different activities require different tack. Paula Sells shows how tack reflects Mans social history over 300 years of working with horses. Lavishly illustrated look behind the scenes.
Dr Paula Sells learnt to ride on Welsh Mountain ponies by rounding up sheep in north Wales. She hunted with the Flint & Denbigh, Cheshire Forest and Cheshire Hunts. She has evented at Burghley. In 1998, after a career in tropical medicine, Paula became a member of the British Horse Loggers and worked Shire cross heavy horses in Wales and Cheshire. She visited Slovakia on a Leonardo da Vinci Scholarship in forestry and continues her work with agricultural students and schoolchildren. Work with Riding for the Disabled led to long-distance trekking in Scotland and together with her family, Paula is now breeding thoroughbreds that are racing successfully on the flat. The gift of a huge leather headcollar, stamped GWR and once worn by a Shire horse used for shunting carriages on the Great Western Railway, sparked an interest in the craft and history of harness and saddlery which has developed into the material for this book.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910723777 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910723770 |
| Title | The Tack Room |
| Author | Paula Sells |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Merlin Unwin Books |
| Year published | 2018-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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