Arab owners - are you clipping?

[bluewhippet]

sorry if this is a very stupid question. I don't know whether to clip my gelding or not. He will be out in the day and in and night and he has more rugs than I have room for!

He is already getting quite woolly and I am going to continue to work through the winter - quite fast hacks, 2 hour, through the week and some schooling.

My YO thinks it is a no brainer to clip him but I am just a bit concerned because when he came to me last April he was very thin - ribs sticking out thin - and I wondered whether it was due to the cold. YO says it would be due to bad grazing and she is much more experienced than I am so...

..what is everyone else doing?

 

[Perissa]

For me its not the decision to clip or not - its when. I'm thinking about doing it next week.

To me its sounds like your boy could so with clipping, you just need to decide which clip to give him. Personally because I show I hate having lines growing out (as in trace or blanketc clips) so my boy has everything off apart from legs.

 

[BlackRider]

If you want to carry on working him, then you do really need to clip, I usually do a chase clip on my boy, then he still has some coat for warmth, but doesn't get too sweaty when I do work him.