ABOVE IS THE PHOTO ON THE FRONT COVER OF ISSUE 8 OF TRACKING-UP - ARABIAN COLT TARIEL - PHOTO BY LESLEY SKIPPER - www.black-tent.co.uk

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This is the home page for a paper publication, issued quarterly, obtainable by subscription only from the publishers ANNE WILSON and SUSAN McBANE. It will be ideal for anyone who is slightly 'computer shy' or who doesn't own a computer as it is not available on-line - so please tell your friends who are not on the net. We can supply copies of our flyer for distribution at equestrian events large and small, or simply to pass around. Because marketing and promotion are expensive, we should appreciate any help you can give us in getting TRACKING-UP known, since we are not subsidised by general advertising.  (For copies of flyers, please email Anne Wilson as below).

If you want something different, absorbing, enlightening and thought-provoking, you'll love Tracking-up.

It's for everyone, at any level of experience, who rides or looks after horses or ponies

We love horses so our commitment to them and our readers is to present quality, trustworthy editorial aimed at enhacing all our lives.

Issue 8 has now been published and contains the following:-

 WHAT WE SAY - by Susan McBane

RIDER ERROR PRAISED AT TOP EVENT - by Margaret Aspinall

HAND RIDING OR LATERAL FLEXIONS? - by Anne Wilson

HANDLING THE NEW BORN FOAL FROM THE BEGINNING: PART 1 - by Heater Gwillim

DON'T LET DEHYDRATION DOG YOUR SUMMER DAYS - by Lucinda Stapleton

REMEMBERING WHITE RANCHES, CANADA, AROUND THE 1940's: Part 2 - by Billie (Sharp) Keturakis

DID YOU KNOW? PART 1 OF A REPORT ON A FASCINATING EVENING ONPASTURE AND HORSE MANAGEMENT - by Anne Wilson

MYTHBUSTERS: NOSEBAND NONSENSE - by Susan McBane

IS HYPERFLEXION BEING SANCTIONED BY THE BY THE BACK DOOR? - by Anne Wilson

WEANING: NECESSARY EVIL OR UNNECESSARY TRAUMA? - by Lesley Skipper

THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE: HOW IT CAN HELP WITH THE CLASSICAL RIDING SEAT - by Erica Donnison

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BACK NUMBERS

 For reasons of practicality and economy, we are not keeping back numbers of Tracking-up.  When they’re gone, they’re gone!   So, to make sure of your issues, send for your copy at the beginning of the months in which each is published – February for the Winter issue, May for the Spring issue, August for the Summer one and November for Autumn.  Better still, take out a year’s subscription of all four issues and get your 10% discount.

HOWEVER, owing to a miscalculation, we find that we have a few copies of  Issues 6 and 7 available.  These are available at the special, one time price of £4 each incl. post and packing. Just send your cheque made out to 'Tracking-up' to Tracking-up, Park End House, Robins Folly, Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, MK44 2EQ.

Mark your name and address clearly on the back of the cheque and state which copies you require.

 HOW TO SUBSCRIBE OR PURCHASE A CURRENT (Issue 8)  SINGLE COPY:-

Tracking-up is available quarterly by post, as single copies £4.90, or a year's subscription of four issues £17.50 (representing a discount) including postage in UK only. Postage to other parts of the world can be arranged at an additional cost, to most parts of the world, of £5 per year surface mail, or £10 per year airmail. Exact cost to your part of the world on application by email as below.

It pays to subscribe - Subscribers get a discount, a free help service, and discounts off our books.

Just make a cheque out for the appropriate amount (pounds sterling please) to 'Tracking-up', clearly print your name and address on the back of the cheque and mark 'TUW', and send to:-

Tracking-up, Park End House, Robins Folly, Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, MK44 2EQ

FOR MORE INFORMATION - email annewilsondressage@hotmail.co.uk

 MORE ABOUT TRACKING-UP

TRACKING-UP's main topics will be effective, humane riding and schooling for all disciplines, classical equitation, care and management, veterinary and equine science, and equine behaviour, psychology and learning. Others include the latest research and developments, comment and opinion (so prepare to write in), in-depth book and DVD reviews, book extracts, and conference reports. We aim to bring together thoughts and varying opinions. We - Susan and Anne - are very good friends but have differing opinions on some issues, so look forward to some lively debate.

Why  have we launched a periodical when there are already many magazines around? For some time we had felt the need for something different, something self-sufficient and independent, and which concentrates on horses rather than on personalities or politics. We wanted a periodical which was independent of advertisement income, free from a controlling body and non profit-led: indeed, TRACKING-UP is a voluntary, non-profit concern.

We don't aim particularly to be controversial, but we'll say what needs saying on behalf of our equine partners, whether or not it's fashionable or popular. You'll find reliable information and thought-provoking reading to help you and the equines in your life.

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