Full clip in summer?

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Having never done any showing before I am probably boring you all with questions, so apologies! ;)

For in hand showing does anyone fully body clip their entire horse? Just wondering because I saw this crop up somewhere else with various people that clipped their entire horse not just neatened up feathers etc and trimmed...

One of the said persons had a yearling the same as me but I don't think at that age I would like to fully clip unless there was some vital reason I had to e.g health :/

I heard it shows the horse off better and can improve the coat, but surely a good condition summer coat would be just fine?
 
I did it with a show cob, fully trimmed and hogged, wouldn't do it with anything else though. The cob was clipped minimum of 10 days before a show so there would be no lines, she had a heavy summer coat anyway though, we did ridden and inhand classes sucessfully, no one ever noticed! :):)
 
We used to clip everything off in the spring so it grew back in without lines -and I clipped my sweaty cob because I don't like the 'shaved leg' look! Not sure how a clip on a fine summer coat could improve the look to be honest.
 
I'm not hugely experienced on showing, but I don't think its the done thing to clip out a show pony in the summer - not a natural coat etc. I used to fully clip my show jump pony in summer because she sweated like a pig!! But I wouldn't clip a pony I was intending to show :)
 
maisie06 said:
I did it with a show cob, fully trimmed and hogged, wouldn't do it with anything else though. The cob was clipped minimum of 10 days before a show so there would be no lines, she had a heavy summer coat anyway though, we did ridden and inhand classes sucessfully, no one ever noticed! :):)
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Yes, I have no problem with this - havedealt with many cobs I had to clip over the summer because they just had that special cobby coat that is still so dense in the summer!! Makes riding in any sort of heat impossible and sticky and uncomfortable for both horse and rider so can totally undstand.

I don't know if people regularly fully clip youngsters specifically for in hand only though, as the item I was reading made this seem the norm, but I've never heard of it being done....
 
Btomkins said:
I don't know if people regularly fully clip youngsters specifically for in hand only though, as the item I was reading made this seem the norm, but I've never heard of it being done....
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Personally, I would never clip a youngster, unless there was a health related reason. I know that the shetland society say that you may only clip a shetland over 4 yrs that is working due to welfare interest and under no circumstances are foals to be clipped.

I don't know why you would need to clip a youngster? :confused:
 
maisie06 said:
When you take one on that comes with so many freebie "friends" that it is easier to clip it's disgusting, matted coat and livestock off altogether and start again!:D
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This happend to mine a few weeks ago, thankfully I think I caught it early and a dermoline bath and a good dousing in louse powder seems to have worked, although thought I might have to go down the same route :/
 
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