First day at yard... first faux pas!!

I rarely get a chance to groom my boy as he always seems to be perfectly clean and shiny whenever I go to the yard, unless he has just that minute come in from the paddock or lunge-ring.

He naturally has a very fine and shiny coat, but he also gets throroughly groomed, including finishing with hot cloths etc., every day as part of the full livery. When I have breeders coming to look at him, the girls do the full show-production number with chalk, spray-shine, etc.

One time I forgot to warn them that a breeder was coming, and I arrived less than 10 minutes before the visitors were due - three grooms immediately dropped everything and dashed round to his box and had him looking perfect by the time my guests arrived. And all done with smiles and not a word of reproach for the short notice, bless them!

They are not stupidly fanatical, and the horses' welfare and happinness come before spotlessness, but they do take their grooming seriously.

I actually love grooming and sometimes end up grooming my perfectly clean horse just for the pleasure and 'bonding-opportunity'!
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It was like that in Dubai as well. It can be hard to get used to...

Best of luck. PF will never know what's hit her!
 
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Brilliant yard for lazy people!
I wouldn't like it so much as I like grooming my lad, because it lets me build on my relationship with him and I get to spend time with him doing that.

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Yes!
I expect I'd be allowed to groom PF as long as I don't leave shavings in her tail!
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APMSL!!!! SOOOOO glad I don't have anything to ride properly anymore! Still, the shavings in the tail thing PF - tut tut!! Have been practicing the wax on, wax off on H for show prep - he LOVES it - I don't!
 
Can I send them Stinker????

Covered in mud and oil - his tail and feather are in dreds. Mane also needs to be taken out of bags and replaited.

It is going to be a 2 hour job getting ready for next show.
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Cairo would be in heaven if tackled with a curry comb like that - hard the better for him - would they take a joint package?

Personally I would run screaming if I had to keep taking off reins and coming out looking ready for a show but I am a happy scruffy bugger.

If you hair is not in place do they sort you out too?
 
If I had to do it myself every time I want to take PF out I'd go mad... as it is I just ask for my horsie to be tacked up and she's brought to me gleaming...
I think she might get used to all that scrubbing!
Course I do rather like to groom (at least occasionally!) myself and tack up
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Can I send them Stinker????

Covered in mud and oil - his tail and feather are in dreds. Mane also needs to be taken out of bags and replaited.

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I'm sure they'd relish the challenge. Mane must be extraordinarily long if you keep it in bags!!

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It is going to be a 2 hour job getting ready for next show.
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From start to finish? You must work fast!! Takes me that long (or longer) on PF!

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Cairo would be in heaven if tackled with a curry comb like that - hard the better for him - would they take a joint package?

Personally I would run screaming if I had to keep taking off reins and coming out looking ready for a show but I am a happy scruffy bugger.

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PF doesn't even like dandy brushes very much! I don't think it matters what I look like... just as well!
There's a very, VERY poor mare and scrawny foal here... He doesn't mind them being seen. Personally I'd HATE anyone to see a mare of mine in that condition but I expect that's why he brought her to his yard.

If you hair is not in place do they sort you out too?

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