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how many of you use it? i think its a good idea for higher levels we used to use it at 3DE only and big advance classes, but i see so many people use it for intro an PN i dont see the point do these people think they look good with it on? i wouldnt want to be sat on a horse that cant get there legs out of the way at lowerlevel.
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I'm of the opinion:
Better to be safe than sorry
Prevention is better than cure (in an injury sense)

etc etc

I'd rather if my horse hit a jump (no matter how high) and have her slide right over it and was fine rather than got an injury!

ETS: And it is possibe to eff up the stride into a fence and clip/hit it at the lower levels.
 
Allegedly helps horse slide over fence if hits it and prevent abrasive injury. However, whoever said they would be worried if their horse neeeded it at lower levels certainly got that right...To really help a horse slide over fence and prevent injury you would need to do as stunt men do and grease THE FENCE. Greasing legs MAY prevent slight scrapes and hair loss but if you hit one hard damage will be done. But it WILL make wounds difficult clean and treat in many cases. You are in trouble for example if you need to stitch a wound where there is loads of grease. If yr using stuff that washes off easily its not worth using at all (will be off before horse half way round). We only use it at 3/4 star events and if it is very hot not even then as it prevents sweating and melts and runs off anyway. Someone should do a study on its use, think its another urban legend!!
 
i agree i would not want to be riding something that needed grease to slide over a fence at Intro/pre-novice, i think sometimes it can be a bit of a look thing.

i personally would use it from 2* level upwards i think, but having yet not competed above Novice eventing level im sure i would even do that! i agree that it can prevent them sweating and is difficult to clean from cuts.
 
I very rarely do XC anyway but i did but it on when i went XC schooling for the very first time as i didn't now what size of fence we would progress to doing as i didn't know if he would take to it.

If i was doing anything higher than about 3ft i would prob still put it on.
 
I'm with Dolores on the urban legend thing. How can a teeny tiny bit of grease help 500kg of horse slide over a fence. I would love to see a proper study undertaken on it. However I'm sure I would slap it all over my horse if we got to that kind of level just to be on the safe side!
 
Can I ask why you thought of posing this question quite a while after the eventing season has finished? It just seems that you have only asked it to poke a bit of fun at the lower level riders and so that you can boast about the level of horses you work with. If people want to slap grease on at those levels, then who are you or anyone else to criticise? Not all of us will ever get the chance to ride at a big 3day so we might as well feel good about competing at the levels we do, and if that takes a bit of grease then so be it.
 
i was wondering that as well, i personally dont use it, but i cant realy see that there is any particular harm in it, its up to the individual
 
What is the problem with people using it though? If it can help an advanced horse, it can surely help a PN horse too?
And if it doesn't help, well, it maybe makes the rider feel happier.
Found the more recent answers interesting and certainly something to think about..
 
First am pleasantly surprised to be so agreed with normally am shot down in flames. second, this is the time when people thinking of eventing should be doing their homework and i presumed that was why question asked and third people of any level can do as they please but experience has told me at least that discretion in the use of grease is better. no one is laughing at anyone as far as i can see but there is alot of ignorance about i.e at one event this year pre nov level run in a 38 degree heatwave there were horses plastered in the stuff, chests legs belly the works and personally i think it is the responsibility of those who have experience (good or bad) to share it when asked so that sort of foolish ness can be avoided. That particular horse finished the course in what i can only describebe as distressed and being half covered as if it was about to swim the chanel cannot have helped. just as well it jumped clean, lord knows how long it took to get the stuff off.
thats it rant finished!!
 
I agree with what you are saying, you are speaking from a lot of experience - and you had responded in a diplomatic way. The reason I said what I did was after looking at the profile of the original poster and seeing that she is an event groom - I don't think she was posing a question. I did find the post slightly patronising and the timing just enhanced that feeling - plus I could not find a BE record for the original poster. Speaking from experience is she?
I will think twice about putting grease on my horse at PN events next year (I do the greasing whilst OH does the riding!) based on what you have said - not based on the original poster's reasons. I'll be honest and say that we did start putting it on because others were at the same level including a friend who is an equine vet - and we were led to believe that yes, it would help somewhat especially over roll top type fences. A PN for some horses (and riders) is as much of a challenge as a 4* is to others - and if a little bit of grease makes someone a little more confident in their riding then I see no reason why they shouldn't use it.
But I will stick by my thoughts of the original post - unnecessary I felt. It is true though - the horsey world really is a bitchy place and people take great delight it taking the p**s out of people that maybe don't quite know what they are doing sometimes.
 
here we go again bitchyness(sp) How dare you say im taking the p**S out of anyone. I asked a question am i not allowed to? it must be my post counts not that high i cant have an opinion, if people want to put it on thats fine if they feel it helps.I just wanted to know what other people think and if you use it why?
 
Come on guys....everyone's entitled to their opinions whether they have 1000 posts, have evented at 4* or just hack around the lanes.

Let's just respect each others opinions and not take it all so personally.
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thanks for that, this is why i dont post much i just wanted to know what other people thought and i would never take the p**s out of people who are just starting out or enjoy doing eventing at lower level and if ive offended anyone in that way im sori.
 
Im with you dingle, and i think s_v seems to take things very personally for some reason when people are just asking questions and having a chat!! Is this not what this forum is for?? why does it have to be an argument
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I'm not taking things personally at all, and yes we have had a difference of opinion in the past HollyJane - but why does that put me in the wrong? I just speak my mind - others may or may not agree. Is that not what the forum is also about? My replies were thought out and logical - I'm not the one who lost my temper at the end of the day. If people don't want their posts misread then they need to write them better, check the punctuation and read it before it is posted. If they don't want to do this then they must accept that some (not all) will read them in a different way and take them in a different way. I was not the only one who thought what I did.
 
I just dont think it should be so serious! I think people should lighten up and take the posts with a pinch of salt and not go into a mad debate.

This forum should be fun
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I use grease from PN upwards, doesn't cost much, doesn't take long to put it on and even if there is a tiny chance it will save my horses from an injury then it is worth it. We certainly f*** up strides and hit fences at PN from time to time.

Anyway, made a bit of a blunder at the end of the season - went to buy a new tub of grease and found one that was a couple of £ cheaper than the previous brand I had used.

Got it out at the next event and found .... you guessed it .... bright spearmint blue!!

Not really Lexi's colour I fear!!

I am too tight to throw it out - only ends up covered in mud anyway - poor Lexi will have put up with it until the (large) tub is finished!

Do you think the other horses will take the p*** in the collecting ring?
 
No blue is a nice colour. They come in all different colours now we was at an event once and each groom got a goody bag and whatever the colour the horse was they tried to match it up mine was chestnut so i got this poo colour stuff !!!!
 
Will only be a matter of time before they have pink grease!!
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If its any consilation SillyMare I saw Jeanette Brakewell sporting exactly the same grease!!
 
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