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Bathing Your Horse - Step by Step
Check the weather before you start. No show is worth giving your horse a chill. If the weather is windy, cold (below about 50 degrees F) use a dry shampoo. If you have indoor facilities with warm water, that's great! But, be sure your horse doesn't catch a draft after you leave the wash rack.
What you will need:
- Rubber Curry
- Brush
- Hoof Pick
- Sweat Scraper
- Bucket
- Hose
- Spray Nozzle
- Warm Water
- Sponge, Soft Rags
- Shampoo
- Conditioner
- Show Sheen
- Towels
- Hoof Polish, Conditioner
- Mineral Oil, Rubber Gloves
- Blanket or Cooler if Cold
1. Curry your horse with a rubber curry to remove caked on dirt.
- Begin at top of neck continuing down to chest.
- Do withers, shoulder, forearm.
- Then the back, side, barrel, croup and butt.
- So the other side in the same order. NEVER CURRY THE LOWER LEGS.
2. Next, brush your horse in the same sequence.
- Brush with the grain of the hair.
- Do lower legs, too.
3. Pick out the hooves.
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