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George Alston has been one of the country's preeminent professional handlers for over thirty years. Now, the secrets of his success are shared with every dog fancier

The Winning Edge is the very first book to apply sports psychology to dog showing. Here, serious exhibitors, including the seasoned veteran, will have the opportunity to develop and polish the skills necessary to take a place in the winners' circle. With award-winning author Connie Vanacore, George Alston shows us all how to gain consistent success in the only sport in which amateurs compete directly with the professionals. Chapters focus on the advantages of being an amateur and underscore the necessity for the mental preparation and psychology that are essential to every exhibitor's success.

The authors cover every ingredient in the recipe for show ring success, with chapters on the perfect handler, the making of a show dog, psychocybernetics, where and how to focus when in the ring and learning from the competition.

The Winning Edge, an essential for every dog exhibitor's bookshelf, now makes George Alston's professional know-how available to everyone with the desire to win.
A Howell Dog Book of Distinction.
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Anne Kursinski has been an outstanding  international competitor for almost two decades, winning  such coveted awards as the American Gold Cup, the  Grands Prix of Aachen and Rome, the Pan American  Games Individual Gold Medal, and an Olympic silver  medal at Seoul, to name only a few. Today, Anne  Kursinski is one of the most admired -- and most  successful -- riders in the world.

In recent  years, while continuing to compete at the highest  levels, she has also become one of the most  sought-after instructors and clinicians in America. Now  at last, this breakthrough book lays out in words  and pictures the key elements of her riding  techniques so that they can be studied and applied by  any determined rider. Of special interest are Anne's  secrets of analyzing jumper courses, and her  strategies for riding them. Whether they aspire to ride  hunters or jumpers or to compete in horsemanship  over fences, Anne Kursinski's Riding And  Jumping Clinic will improve readers'  chances of success as it takes them, step-by-step, all  the way from basic flatwork and dressage through  jumping at every level..
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The catalogue of an exhibition for which Ashley Callahan, former curator of decorative arts, Georgia Museum of Art; Rob Jackson, associate professor and area chair, Jewelry and Metalwork, Lamar Dodd School of Art; and Mary Hallam Pearse, associate professor, Jewelry and Metalwork, Lamar Dodd School of Art, served as co-curators, this marvelous little full-color book captures the spirit of the original juried National Ring Shows from the late 1970s and their revisiting in this new exhibition. Every ring in the show is illustrated, and the book also contains essays by Callahan, Jackson and Pearse, as well as an artist's statement by Steuart Bremner, a reflection by juror Lane Coulter, and an interview with Gary Noffke by Pearse and Callahan..
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In its installed form, The Welfare Show shifts shape from venue to venue, with viewers sometimes experiencing it from as far away as a museum's offices, through binoculars. This documentation of the project--which addresses its title political and social topic with verve and indignation--is bound to mimic the system it critiques, in a series of folders with each of more than 90 contributions filed alphabetically..
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