Your Winter Equestrian Library

If you live in a place where you experience winter… we empathize! Winter this year in the north east has been cold, snowy, and wet, which makes getting out to the barn and riding that much harder. But there are still ways to continue learning and sharpen up your riding and horsemanship skills when you’re not at the barn or in the saddle. 

Reading opens us up to new worlds, new thoughts, and ideas. It can also transport us back to another era, and remind us of the basics of riding and horse sports. Building your equestrian library is fun, productive, and allows us to connect with others by participating in literary discussions to share ideas, thoughts, and opinions. Book clubs can be a collaborative way for friends to get together when it’s too cold to ride.

Winter is a great time to look over your equestrian library and revisit literature that can advance your skills in the saddle, sharpen your eye for equestrian art and design, or to just relax! Some of our favorite titles this winter are Marguerite, Misty and Me by Susan Friedland, Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse by Paul Cronin, and Thoughts on Horsemanship by Hugh J.B. Cassidy III.

Your equestrian library is more than just books, it’s a direct reflection of your experience and life long journey with horses. Winter offers us all a chance to slow down and reflect, making it the ideal time before the warmer months, to light a fire in the fireplace, and read a good book!