So, new mare needs mane makeover.

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15.2 Morgan. Considering she has just come through a Canadian winter, unrugged and out 24/7 she's not looking too bad, totally unfit after the winter lay up.

Feathers are coming off, tail needs a trim, forelock HAS to stay by order of my daughter, but the mane!

What to do? It is the same BOTH sides!:eek: So, would it suit her best to:

a) Leave it?
b) Thin and shorten? (To about half?)
c) Pull?

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She's really quite sweet looking isn't she? Not looking bad at all at the end of the winter.


Well.....I would go with a 'morgan' mane. Clip the top bit (about 5/6 inchs so like a bit bridle path) then leave the rest just neaten it up a little bit.
 
Lippy, thanks, the foal is a poppet, and way too pretty to be a boy!

Thing is, and I should have said, the mare has a heck of a pop and daughter is going to be jumping her, too much mane to be flowing around. It good job a braid only takes minutes to do then, one either side, that will be novel! I'm not so keen on pulling, too much like hard work ;) Poor horse had literally only just come off the trailer when I took this picture, the usual "on arrival" photo.
 
I would tidy it/pull it to the length of the shortest bit nearest her head, where it looks like you've started to shorten it, then it wouldn't be too short but tidy, I'm a lover of a short tidy mane but understand not everyone does
 
Shorten it to the length of the short bit at the front - seems to be all the rage with sj horses in the UK now to have a 4-6in long, very level, blunt cut mane, so your daughter could start a trend in your part of the world! Are Morgans shown as 'sport horses' - if so, what is the usual trend for their manes?
Presumably the foal is a paint - how is it bred?
 
Noisygirl, yes it does look as if I have had a go at her all ready, but she'd been on the yard for about 5 minutes!

It is a useful idea of what the halfway option might look like though. There's just SO much of it!
 
ironhorse said:
Are Morgans shown as 'sport horses' - if so, what is the usual trend for their manes?
Presumably the foal is a paint - how is it bred?
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Hi,

I know very little about Morgan showing, it was just coincidental that a Morgan ticked all our 'must have' boxes, as she is not going to be bred here then, for once, I didn't care if she was a Heinz 57.
Manes here seem to be either au natural or about 3" long and braided into a million fiddley plaits:mad: I miss the traditional British style, but it is not THE thing here.

The colt? Yes, Paint, although I am looking into possibility of registering him with the AQHA as I hear rulings have changed and more white is accepted now, he is actually 3/4 QH. Dam (Outlaws Robin Gold) is by Robins Jag of Gold, Painted Robin blah, blah, blah out of a AQHA mare, she was shipped from the US. Sire is palomino AQHA (Dashbardee Jet) Sonny Dee, Bar SN lines.
 
Iron horse its usual for a morgan to have to top bit of their mane to be clipped 6 inchs or so (so like a really long bridal path) then left long and flowy. With the first part next to the clipped bit plaited (at the width of a normal plait but left hanging not rolled up)

Enfys I can realted to the far to much to jump with, I use to struggle hugely with the Morgan I jumped with reins and then mane, I use to put one running plait in and leave at that
 
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