Tag: equestrian

  • Hurray for Buy A Horse Book Day!

    Hurray for Buy A Horse Book Day!

    Tomorrow (Wednesday), May 10th, is the second annual Buy A Horse Book Day, and we’ve teamed up with our friends at HeelsDown and authors of horse books from all over the world to recognize all the ways and reasons we love books about horses. We invite you to join us! On May 10th, celebrate your…

  • Happy Birthday, Norman Thelwell!

    Happy Birthday, Norman Thelwell!

    On this day in 1923, an artist was born–one who would make his mark on the equestrian world despite not being an equestrian himself. His name is synonymous for a particular depiction of fat hairy ponies, today seen on mugs and bedsheets and t-shirts around the globe. The genesis of this brand came 30 years…

  • The Year in Horse Books: What We Published in 2022

    The Year in Horse Books: What We Published in 2022

    Each year, as we leave December in the rear-view and welcome January with a whole-hearted cheers, we at Trafalgar Square Books (www.HorseandRiderBooks.com) like to look back and consider the books and videos we published over the past year. Often, the space between Januarys feels like decades, so it can give us a mighty big lift…

  • 10 Books for Horse Lovers

    10 Books for Horse Lovers

    It is that gifty time of year, and in the scramble to make “just right” purchases, we can feel overwhelmed by the costs, the choices, and what’s good for the world and our favorite people. We know this feeling all too well, so in the spirit of the kinds of gifts that will keep on…

  • TSB Author Chad Oldfather Featured at the Kentucky Book Festival

    TSB Author Chad Oldfather Featured at the Kentucky Book Festival

    On Saturday, October 29, 2023, Joseph-Beth Booksellers (161 Lexington Green Circle) in Lexington, Kentucky, will host the 41st Annual Kentucky Book Festival, featuring top literary talent, including Geraldine Brooks, Barbara Kingsolver, John Meacham, and our own Chad Oldfather, author of A MAN WALKS INTO A BARN. Those who have read Oldfather’s memoir about fathering horse-crazy daughters…

  • It’s the Season to Grow Your Riding Confidence!

    It’s the Season to Grow Your Riding Confidence!

    The changing of the seasons always turns the focus from this year to next. What have we learned in the past few months? What can we do to reach the next level of achievement, whether that is a training goal or one in the show ring? How can we improve ourselves? Improve our horses? Pro-athlete…

  • Welcome to the Schmidt Show: 24 Hours with Dressage Trainer and Equine Cartoonist Morgane Schmidt

    Welcome to the Schmidt Show: 24 Hours with Dressage Trainer and Equine Cartoonist Morgane Schmidt

    One of our favorite things about my job is that I get to know the most fun and fascinating people. Our authors come from so many parts of the world and with so many different life experiences, a day doesn’t pass where I don’t wish I lived closer to one or all of them so…

  • We’re Counting Down to Buy A Horse Book Day!

    We’re Counting Down to Buy A Horse Book Day!

    Only 5 days left until #BuyAHorseBookDay ! Join TSB and Heels Down Media to celebrate horse books—and all those who write them, read them, and make them! When? Tuesday, May 10 What Do I Do? Buy a horse book at your favorite tack or bookstore, take a selfie, post about your favorite horse books, tell…

  • Snorkeling, Horses Who Wear Hats, and Very Scary Rocks: 24 Hours with Collegiate Riding Coach Sally Batton

    Snorkeling, Horses Who Wear Hats, and Very Scary Rocks: 24 Hours with Collegiate Riding Coach Sally Batton

    It is a privilege at TSB to get to know so many horse people from such a variety of backgrounds. The common thread is that ALL of them are busy, with days full of teaching, training, and expanding their own understanding of horses and horse sport. More often than not there’s some travel thrown in…

  • A Maine Horseman on Loving the American West, Avocados, and Watership Down

    A Maine Horseman on Loving the American West, Avocados, and Watership Down

    It isn’t uncommon to have an experience that marks a major life change–a dramatic meeting, a sudden loss, an unexpected epiphany…all of these can inspire a re-evaluation of who we are and what we are doing with our lives. When Chris Lombard suffered a breakup that upended his life and left him searching for meaning…