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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Meet Rebs, a Blue-Eyed Gentleman Looking for the Right Home
It’s #AdoptAHorseMonth and TSB is proud to be celebrating equine adoption alongside our fellow Partners of the ASPCA’s Right Horse. TSB has partnered with the ASPCA®’s Right Horse Initiative to establish Right Horses, Bright Futures—a program to help secure new beginnings for very special horses in need of new homes. TSB sponsors each “Right Horses,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Train with Your Brain: Teach Yourself to Notice the Absence of Misbehavior
Horsemanship of every kind depends on mutual interaction between equine and human brains. When we understand the function of both, we can learn to communicate with horses on their terms instead of ours. And, by meeting horses halfway, we not only save valuable training time and improve performance, we achieve other goals, too. We develop…
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6 Facts About “The Golden Boy of the Horse World”
This week we were so pleased to release HAPPY TRAILS: A PICTORIAL CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROY ROGERS AND DALE EVANS by Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss. This book, highly illustrated with rarely seen memorabilia, is a unique and captivating collection of photographs and stories chronicling the lives of the King of…
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