How do you dry your turnouts at end of day, esp belly straps

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Sooo muddy tonight, turnout is a new and long PE one, it was wet about 9 inches from the end all the way around and the belly straps were sopping with wet mud.
How the heck do you all get them dry for the morning in this temperature? Any tips?
 
Leave them on the ned.

Take them home and drape them over the bannister (ignoring sarky gasping for air comments from hubby).

Hang them over various things in the tack room (should have a low level heater on in there
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Hairdryer.
 
Clothes airer in front of boiler in kitchen overnight. Kitchen ceiling fan on all night if really soggy, if desperate have been known to resort to hairdryer to finish off the seams.
Helps to have a big kitchen and to be last/first person to use said kitchen so no-one notices the horsey aroma - bacon sarnies first thing soon sorts that!
Alternatively, I can now appreciate (novice rug wearing horse owner) why people have lots of rugs, could never fathom it before.
 
I have nails in strategic places in roof beam in heated ( sshh OH doesn't know about this bit) tack room (outside shed) & hang rugs up by D rings that leg straps fasten to. Rugs are just above floor level & dry overnight. But I do have a spare NZ (the old one) just in case.
 
Leave it on the horse! unless it is an old / s**t rug he'll be bone dry and toasty warm underneath and if fed enough hay he'll produce enough body heat to dry it off. I just take it off and reposition in the morning..
 
I have a heated rug dryer. Love it, couldn't be without it. I think my horses appreciate a nice warm rug put on morning and evening. Before `i had mt heated rug dryer I had all my turnouts hanging on every chair/ worksurface in my kitchen next to the aga, which generally didnt go down well!!!!
 
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