Suggest me a rug for a rug wrecker!!

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So I have 4 horses & they play hard, so all my horses wear Amigo rugs as they can come in 1200 denier so stand up to their rufty tufty play.

But one of mine keeps breaking his rug 2 so far in a week - he seems to roll and break the tail flap, twice now this has happened in a week - the D rings have come clean off!!! So now I need a medium weight rug, that doesn't have the tail flap thing, and that is a strong denier, most rugs seem to be only 600d which would last no time with my lot!!

Grrr bloody horses!!

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Rambo.... expensive but after replacing rug after rug I bit the bullet and bought Rambo's, my oldest now being 8 yrs old.
I have just bought an Amigo 1200d HW with neck as I couldnt afford the Rambo this time, and although a lovely rug Im not holding out much hope, the material is nothing like that of the Rambo.
 
No advice, but interested as my horse has managed to break loads of rugs - sometimes, he manages to get them to look as though someone has slashed both sides horizontally with a stanley knife. I have a few rugs that are held together with bailer twine fillet strings....as he's broken off the leg straps. Also, he manages to roll in the most poached, sloppy bits of the field imaginable - he looks like he's been rolling in melted chocolate
 
cm2581 said:
Maybe the horse doesn't want to wear a rug!!
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I expect you're right! He'd never had one before I owned him (he was 6 when I bought him 18 months ago). I wouldn't bother, but he can be an absolute git to brush, I mean - getting just his saddle area clean can be a nightmare if he's in a particularly "get out of my space" mood. :D
 
We have a rug wrecker and have tried every rug on the market, some seriously expensive. They basically last a week before they are sporting either an "off the shoulder look" or a massive gash. The best rug we have found is a really cheap one in the sale that you treat as disposable and don't bother paying to get washed. We stockpile spare straps from equestrian clearance and use tent repair glue to patch them up for as long as possible. If we are really lucky we'll get about a month out of one...
 
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