Grooming.
June 25, 2007
Before riding you must, and I mean must groom your horse. When grooming your horse there are four basic steps.
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Curry Brush your horse. You want to do this in circles.
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Brush your horse off with a soft bristle brush. Go with the hair.
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Then you need to hoof pick your horse’s feet, this is very important.
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Fly spray your horse. You don’t need your horse getting distracted by flies.
After riding (depending on the climate) you will usually hose your horse off.
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First spray your horse’s legs down.
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You will slowly work your way up to the body.
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Next, try to hose your horse’s face off. Some horses have big problems with the water in their face. If they do just sponge their face off.
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Then, dry them off with a sweat scrapper and dry their legs down with a dry towel getting the access water off.
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Lastly, fly spray your horse so they don’t get irritated by flies.
Of course you can go into a lot more depth then this but, the above are the basics.
