Tails from the Track: A Journey of Self Discovery on the Backstretch - Hardcover

Gannon, Janice: - Janice Gannon is an accomplished horsewoman and riding instructor who has more than forty years experience in the industry. She began her lifelong love affair with horses as a child and later graduated from Humber College's School of Horsemanship. An early job in the horse industry took her to the racetrack where she dived into the little known world of the backstretch, grooming and exercising horses, working on various racetracks through Canada and the United States. She saw the best and worst of horse care, determining for herself the essence of good horsemanship. As with people, she discovered that adapting to the individual quirks and characteristics of horses was more likely to lead to a successful partnership. And succeed she did, helping to bring more than a few sour or difficult horses around to the winner's circle. Ten years later, after working with a wide variety of human and equine characters, she moved on to successfully showing her own horses, and schooling others in an empathetic approach to riding and training. After earning coaching certificates in both English and Western riding, she developed a unique style of teaching that focuses on the partnership between rider and horse. Her students value her approach of schooling horse and human together to become a smooth and happy unit. Tales from the Track is her first book.