Help Preserve the World’s Great Classical Horsemanship Traditions

For over five centuries, the greatest masters of horsemanship have recorded their knowledge with extraordinary clarity, rigor, and respect for the horse. Yet much of this wisdom remains inaccessible today—locked in rare, fragile texts, untranslated, out of print, or misunderstood.

Xenophon Press exists to change that.

We are an independent publishing house devoted to the translation, preservation, and publication of the foundational works of classical horsemanship—not diluted summaries, not modern reinterpretations, but faithful, scholarly translations that honor the original authors and the horses they served.

Our ongoing projects include the works of masters such as François Robichon de la Guérinière, Waldemar Seunig, Antoine de Pluvinel’s intellectual heirs like Decarpentry, Paul Plinzner, Francois Baucher, and modern classical voices including Anja Beran—authors whose insights into balance, biomechanics, soundness, and humane training are more relevant today than ever.

This work is slow, demanding, and expensive.

It involves:

Locating rare and often obscure source materials

Producing precise, literal translations from German and French

Adding historical and technical context where needed

Design, layout and publishing books to our standards

Large publishers will not fund this work. It is too specialized, too scholarly, and too horse-centered to be commercially fashionable.

That is why we are asking for your help.

Your contribution directly supports:

Professional translation of rare equestrian texts

Preservation of historically accurate riding theory

Making these works available to riders, trainers, historians, and horsemen worldwide

This is not about trends.

It is about continuity, clarity, and protecting the horse through knowledge.

If you believe that horsemanship has a history worth preserving—and a future worth defending—we invite you to support Xenophon Press and help ensure these voices are not lost to time.

Thank you for standing with us, and for standing with the horse.

— Xenophon Press