In hot weather, what rugs do you travel in?

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I've always been told to have some kind of cover over the horse when travelling, mainly to prevent any minor bumps or grazes which might happen for some reason. But it's so hot i don't know what to use
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What do you use, or do you just not rug?
 
Personally I don't bother.

My partitions used to be heavily padded so the chances of injury to the horses' sides was minimal and although the new lorry does not have the same level of padding I've never noticed any problems.
 
I probably wouldn't use a rug but if I did it would be either a net type cooler or a thin cotton summer sheet.
 
no I don't rug in this weather tho we tend not to go particularly far and pone doesn't sweat up in his trailer. Take a cotton waffle cooler for the way home as he is likely to be wet after being washed off.
 
Thanks everyone. I'm just asking as one of mine normally travels without anything when it's hot, as he's a pretty stressy traveller anyway, and normally travels in the lorry (little darling won't load into a trailer- nothing less than 7.5 ton
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) which is padded and pretty non-draughty. However new boy will be travelling in a trailer this week, which i would have thought is more draughty,
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and less padded, and he is a good traveller and also very thin skinned..gets grazed quite easily. Hmm
 
Nothing at all. I rarely travel in a rug TBH unless it's really cold. My horse sweats up quite a bit when travelling and a rug (even a cooler) just makes it worse.

I always take a sweat rug with me for after I've ridden or for if he needs something whilst there.
 
I travelled a mare and foal lately and didn't rug at all - partly because of the weather but also because all the doors were closed in case foal came out the back.

But I would always take a rug/cooler with me - the waffles are great too.
 
Nothing
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What protection is a cotton sheet going to give? He travelled to autria like this as the driver told me to take it off
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and now only has a rug when needed.
 
I travelled my pony naked in a trailer on Sat and he was dripping with sweat when we got home! It was 30 degrees where we are though.
 
bare naked. Please stop over rugging. Im sure most of us have had the occasion to comment on some poor baby/toddler well overdressed for his surroundings. Stop treating your horses as if they are prize greenhouse orchids. The ruination pf the species and the individual is OUR fault
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bare naked. Please stop over rugging. Im sure most of us have had the occasion to comment on some poor baby/toddler well overdressed for his surroundings. Stop treating your horses as if they are prize greenhouse orchids. The ruination pf the species and the individual is OUR fault
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As i have mentioned, it's just what i've been taught, and i don't usually rug up my other one. However as i have metioned he does get grazed easily, and he is also not one to sweat up when travelling etc- skinny TB not hairy cob
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Am glad to be able to take into account these opinions and experiences- but please bear in mind i was not thinking along the Thermatex lines. And re the prize greenhouse orchids, i'm afraid that as he is on loan WVTB and therefore not mine, i will be taking the utmost care with him until he belongs to me, call me a neurotic mother
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Thanks for your post
 
No way would I put even a thin sheet on my horse to travel in this heat but I might put it on once the horse is out of the box and at the moment it would only be a fly sheet.
 
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