Top show-jumpers manes - how do they get them so neat?

[shannon1]

Can anyone tell me how the show jumpers always have such neat manes. Do they use special products and how do they trim them?

 

[BlackWhite381]

Cut them!

 

[Equus Leather]

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Scissors should never go near manes!

 

[carys220]

They have very good grooms!

 

[billyslad]

the majority certainly cannot be bothered to plait

 

[asbo]

cut then tidied up with a thinning and pulling comb

 

[BlackWhite381]

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NOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Scissors should never go near manes!

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i know! i don't cut mine and never would but most showjumpers do

 

[carys220]

Which ones???? You can tell a cut mane and I have never seen a Grade A SJer with a cut mane.

 

[asbo]

actually if you cut it and then tidy it with the comb you cant tell, it just takes practice

 

[Weezy]

Most of them use scissors I am afraid! Then you use a shedding blade, thin it, and then blunt it

 

[shannon1]

I've never been good at manes but what is a shedding blade and how do they blunt it?

 

[lialls]

I cut my mares mane and no one guessed i had cut it they all thought i had pulled it.

I wouldn't normaly cut it but when i got her it was soo thin that if i had pulled it there wouldnt of been anything left

 

[H's mum]

You've not been looking closely enough then!

Kate x

 

[PapaFrita]

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I cut my mares mane and no one guessed i had cut it they all thought i had pulled it.


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I cut PF's mane because it's really thin anyway and she hates it being pulled. I think I do quite a good job of it

 

[lucretia]

ad to say weezy is right and then when they are all hatefully thick having not been pulled they jump in a grand prix or antions cup and decide they will have them plaited after all!!

 

[H's mum]

PMSL!!!

Kate x

 

[MistletoeMegan]

They cut them - if you get a pair of really sharp, good quality scissors, and cut upwards into the hair then (with patience and practice) you get a neat, pulled look but unfortunately with bulk.

Some just cast the scissors aside and take trimmers to the ends!

 

[billyslad]

looks awful You can tell that has been cut a mile off !

 

[Weezy]

You do NOT need to put up with the bulk - use a shedding blade (put mane over onto the opp side that it usually lays on, shed to thin, then put back - voila, no bulk).

 

[MistletoeMegan]

I do, my horse's mane lays forwards and not on the side, so if I took a blade to it then he would look even more ridiculous than he currently does.

I may just give up and hog the oaf (will look great on a TB

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[Cop-Pop]

I sometimes cut my TBx's mane - she's such a pain to pull. I usually cut it and feather it but as I don't show her or anything it doesn't really matter

I think PF's mane looks great cut

 

[baleofhay]

My sons friend works for top show jumper and they use hair straightners and sissors. We have tried it and it works perfectly.If you are going to a two day it will stay straight for both days. Strange but true

 

[DBrasnett]

megan2006 I may join you and hog my TBx mane. She hates having it pulled (rears after <5 mins) and cutting with scissors looks terrible!

 

[Ladyfresha1]

My pony doesn't let me pull his mane, scissors are the only thing for it! I have perfected it though. All my other horses have pulled manes and any straggly bits get the scissors at the end. It is not the tools, it is the fools holding them!

 

[sachak]

i normally pull manes but my warmblood has a thin mane and if i pulled it there would be nothing left !!!!

although i have to say i make a shite job of it so am enlisting the help of a solo comb lol!!!

 

[hadfos]

I pull my lads and then take the scissors to all the whispy ends gives a very straight neat finish(providing you are very good at pulling manes,which i am

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However i have been known to cut my boys with scissors

(only because he dosnt particularly like being pulled,so gives him bit of a break)and it looked great,however the trick is to chip in to all the ends

The showjumpers that have thinned the mane and then used scissors looks good,however thick mane and scissors a no no!

 

[asbo]

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looks awful You can tell that has been cut a mile off !

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bollocks , you can not tell its been cut

 

[pinktiger]

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Which ones???? You can tell a cut mane and I have never seen a Grade A SJer with a cut mane.

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rubbish!!!! bet you have!!!!

 

[dieseldog]

Last time I pulled my horses mane I ended up using a stanley knife blade as he decided he hated it being pulled.

 

[Shilasdair]

I use thinning scissors on my girls' manes. I can pull really neatly (used to do it for showing) but find that if I comb it with a pulling comb, then use the thinning scissors a few times, I get a pulled effect without the grief.
Which reminds me; I need to do them all again.
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