Tony and Marcy Pavord have put together this indispensable reference guide to all know health problems relating to horses and ponies. Detailed advice is given on how to recognize and treat each health problem, its likely cause, and how to avoid a recurrence of the problem. The guide is arranged in a convenient anatomical index of diseases with lots of detailed color photographs and illustrations.

The authors of this book guide the horse owner through the steps to determine the horse's problem and to make the right decisions in the case of illness or injury to their mounts. The first section examines the healthy horse and preventative treatment. The meat of the book follows--a unique system of cross-referencing between the anatomical areas of the horse, injuries/diseases affecting those areas, and an index of those injuries/diseases. Symptoms, causes and diagnoses, and treatments are discussed for each injury/disease.

The hardcover book is 8 by 11 inches and has 256 pages.