Trafalgar Square Books is pleased to announce the release of the best-selling It’s Not Just about the Ribbons by Jane Savoie in paperback. Over 15 years ago, Jane Savoie wrote the first book to recognize the importance of training the mind and shaping attitude in order to achieve higher levels of riding skill than ever imagined. Riders who benefited from the lessons in That Winning Feeling! clamored for more, and Savoie responded with her fabulous follow-up book, It’s Not Just About the Ribbons, which is in its fifth year of publication.

Once again, Savoie shares the tools and ideas for self-improvement that she has used, not only to help herself deal with challenges, but her students—who range from Olympic contenders to intermediate riders—as well. Full of shining examples of the success of Savoie’s methods of dealing with riding’s—and life’s—challenges, this book is essential for anyone who is passionate about horses but may be struggling, at some level or other, with negative emotions and frustration from slow development of riding skills. All readers will find that, with Savoie’s contagious enthusiasm along for the ride, they too can make changes more easily and playfully while better enjoying every moment with their horses.

Jane Savoie, born and raised in Massachusetts, attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received a B.S. in Animal Science. She rode hunters as a child, evented in college, and began specializing in dressage in 1976 when she moved to Vermont. She ran the riding program at the Vershire School Stables, 1976 to 1980. Since 1980, she has been a freelance dressage instructor, motivational speaker, traveling clinician, trainer, and competitor. She was the reserve rider for the 1992 US Olympic Dressage team in Barcelona, and since has gone on to coach at three Olympic Games: 1996 (Atlanta), 2000 (Sydney), and 2004 (Athens). She is the author of the best-selling books That Winning Feeling!, Cross-Train Your Horse,and More Cross-Training, as well as the DVDs The Half-Halt—Demystified! 1 and 2, and Riding in Your Mind’s Eye 1 and 2. She lives in Berlin, Vermont, and Wellington, Florida, with her husband Rhett.