Description:
Learning about horses is fun! Hosted by renowned horse expert Irene Brown, this video is both entertaining and educational! It features an eight year old boy and his vaulting team as they prepare and go on to a regional vaulting competition! Watch and learn all about the unique sport of vaulting! Kids will also see four teens at a real horse show in a jumping competition! Watch as each girl trots the ring and jumps over fences! Then listen to a professional judge score each girl's round! Take a visit to a tack shop to see what kind of riding apparel and equipment is needed for safe horseback riding! Watch and learn as host Irene Brown discusses the ins & outs on buying a horse! 'Young horse enthusiasts will love this magazine type video that offers inside looks at two competitive sports and the nuts-and-bolts of riding and buying a horse. Equestrian Irene Brown explains vaulting, in which kids do gymnastics astride a loping horse, introduces a hunter competition, which a judge evaluates in voice-over, visits a tack shop for basic furnishings for both horse and rider, and describes what to look for when buying a horse. The footage is well shot. Brown is knowledgeable and the horses and young riders are appealing. Kids will be delighted with this rather unusual and quite informative production.' - ALA Booklist