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Still on the lookout for some good ice boots, I've tried the airborne cool sport ones but didn't feel they stayed cold long enough. Can anyone make any recommendations for some? Only prob I have is don't have a fridge with freezer bit in my lorry. Thank you :)
 
I think you should change your name to cancelled eventing_2012!!

I have Aerborn ones never had a problem but I only put them on for 20 mins or until warm. I leave them to soak a fair while before putting them on.
 
I never got in with the aerborn boots either, I tried putting them in the fridge overnight and bringing them in a cool bag with ice blocks but they just got hot so quick I stopped using them. I now have 3m hot or cold gel packs, the things you freeze, which I bring in a cool bag and bandage on, last much longer and only about a fiver each, guy them from the local tescos pharmacy.
 
My favourite ice boots are the big neoprene ones with the pockets that you fill with crushed ice :) I just grab a few bags of ice on the way to an event if the event isn't selling any on XC day.

I find these work best because the ice melts and takes the heat away. Plus they are frozen, can't get any colder with that!

There are a few boots on the market over here that believe that dunking them in cold water will do the trick. Sorry, but putting something that is only really wet, rather than frozen, on a hot leg will heat up pretty quickly!
 
Buy a size E tubigrip and either reusable ice bags you know the plastic ones with the gel in not the disposable ones. I put the tubigrip on and fold it back on itself up the leg with the ice packs inside - so the tubigrip stops ice turn and also holds it in place. It works so well. To take them with us, we just put a few in a bucket along with those big hard plastic ice things that you put in picnic bags.
 
I use the Premier Equine HCT Gel packs which are frozen. Take them in a cool bag and they are still plenty cold enough by the time you need them (assuming it's the same day!).

They're not that big though, so you'd struggle to fit them on something with a lot of bone. Thankfully my ponies have little TB legs.
 
Mamamia said:
I use the Premier Equine HCT Gel packs which are frozen. Take them in a cool bag and they are still plenty cold enough by the time you need them (assuming it's the same day!).

They're not that big though, so you'd struggle to fit them on something with a lot of bone. Thankfully my ponies have little TB legs.
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Hi Mamamia

I know this is an old post so I'm not sure if you'll see my reply but just thought I'd try! I'm thinking of buying some Premier Equine HCT Gel packs and just wondered if I could ask you a couple of things about them please?

We would just be using them to cool legs down if there were any injuries as my horse is retired so they won't be used for after riding. My mare is a thoroughbred so hopefully they should fit her OK but I just wondered do you find once they are on the horses legs that they stay cold for at least 15 minutes?

Also I wondered if you have ever had any problem with the gel dropping to the bottom of the wraps or whether it stays pretty evenly dispersed and so cools the whole area under the wrap? I have recently bought a similar thing - the aerbourne cool care gaiter but didn't find it was very good (aerbourne are looking into this as I've returned it) as all that happened was almost as soon as it went on the horses leg the gel dropped to the bottom. Therefore it only kept the bottom half of the leg cool but did nothing for the top half!

Thanks for any help if you see my post!

Lucy x
 
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