TRACKING-UP

ABOVE IS THE FRONT COVER OF OUR CURRENT ISSUE NO.13

(PHOTO COURTESY OF LESLEY SKIPPER, www.black-tent.co.uk) 

Do not confuse this website with that of www.trackingup.com (similar name but different company).  This company markets a program to assist in the orgnanisation and management of dressage and riding competitions - for more information see our Links Page.

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.

We have now joined forces with the Classical Riding Club and Sylvia Loch, and to this end have added an extra four pages to the magazine at no extra cost, so Tracking-up is now even better value than ever, packed with informative reading. We believe that Tracking-up contains far more interesting reading matter than any of the glossy, over-the-counter magazines, since we carry no general advertising.

Issue 13 has now been published and contains the following:-

WHAT WE SAY - HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT - by Susan McBane and Anne Wilson

BOWEN THERAPY - WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT WORK? - by  Krystyna Monks

CIRCLES AND WHAT CAN GO WRONG - by Anne Wilson

THE WAY WE WERE: SHOULD LADIES RIDE ASTRIDE? - by Lieut.Col. M.F. McTaggart,.D.S.O.

ASK PEGGY SUE - A new advice column

RISING TROT - A BETTER WAY - by Susan McBane

ROUND THE BEND: DO HORSE'S SPINES BEND LATERALLY? - by Lesley Skipper

VALE - TONY DAMPIER - by Sylvia Loch

THE EQUI SELECTION: THE MAN-HORSE RELATIONSHIP - by Moyra Williams

THE EQUINE BEHAVIOUR FORUM'S SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM-REPORT - by Alison Averis

THE HORSE MORSE CODE - by Kat Layfield

HUMAN RUSHING SYNDROME - by Peggy Sue

PAGE TURNERS - Book Review

THE CLASSICAL RIDING CLUB SECTION CONTAINS:-

THE SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL AND OTHER EVENTS - by Sylvia Loch

ROUNDNESS: MISCONCEPTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS - by Sylvia Loch

CONCERNING BITTING, GOOD AND BAD HANDS AND WHY THE DOUBLE BRIDLE WAS INTRODUCED - by Udo Burger

CRC NEWS

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.

 HOW TO SUBSCRIBE OR PURCHASE A CURRENT (Issue 12)  SINGLE COPY:-

Tracking-up is available quarterly by post, as single copies £5.00, or a year's subscription of four issues £18.00 (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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