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Hold Your Horses
Nuggets of Truth for People Who Love Horses...
No Matter What
By Bonnie Timmons

Paperback: 144 pages, full color (May 2003)
Language: English
Workman Publishing Co ISBN: 0761115366

Review courtesy Stormy May's
Horse Management Newsletter

You might recognize Bonnie's cartoons from the TV show “Caroline in the City” or the “Thinking Horseman” column in Practical Horseman magazine, but the book is much, much more. It truly is ‘nuggets of truth for people who love horses...no matter what.’ The book takes you on a journey from first contact with a horse, all the way to the final enlightenment at the end, all in Timmons’ delightful, whimsical style.

This book would make a great gift for those people who have been around horses long enough to name 5 causes of colic without blinking.

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From the publisher:

“For the millions of girls – and the women they grow into – who are mad about horses, who live to ride, who spend more time in stables than stores, who know the difference between a hock and the fetlock, comes a sweet, charming, wise, obsessive celebration of the bond between woman and horse. Written and illustrated by Bonnie Timmons, the award-winning artist whose signature squiggly style was seen every week on NBC's hit show Caroline in the City and is featured in places ranging from The New York Times to Fortune 500 advertising campaigns, Hold Your Horses is 144 full-color pages of irresistible pleasure and unexpected horse sense.

“It starts with First Love, moving quickly to Lessons, including the gallop: a gait so fast your worries can't keep up, and jumping: just throw your heart over first, and, of course, falling – otherwise known as an unscheduled dismount. There are tips on Buying One of These Things, plus the truth about Care and Feeding. (The trick here is knowing how much your horse weighs. Easy, really: 1. Weigh yourself. 2. Weigh yourself holding the horse. 3. Subtract 1 from 2.) And Horsekeeping Truths: A horse knows what you know. He also knows what you don’t know. Written out of a lifelong love, Hold Your Horses gets to the heart of the passion that horses inspire. Every horsewoman will see herself in its pages.”