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I've just got as new pony and she is really unfit :p and sweat loads round her neck while doing work. I ride her at least 4 times a week for a couple of hours and was just wondering what clip you would recommend for her :roll eyes:
ps she's stable during the night.:D
 
Hi Roxie, I run a clipping service and usually recommend that you clip off as little as possible.

From what it sounds like, a chaser clip sounds suitable, this incase you don't know is a diagonal line from the belly up to the top of the neck.

It can be made higher or lower to suit :-)
 
Roxie said:
I've just got as new pony and she is really unfit :p and sweat loads round her neck while doing work. I ride her at least 4 times a week for a couple of hours and was just wondering what clip you would recommend for her :roll eyes:
ps she's stable during the night.:D
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not sure riding an unfit pony for 2 hours at a time is the best thing to be doing...

this is probably the best clip to go for tho.....
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I agree that 2 hours and sweating heavily is not advisable for an unfit pony. Perhaps look at building her fitness level up slowly to avoid injury or long term damage. If you want to follow this up further Im sure that this forum would be helpful in its advice on putting together a planned approach.
As to clipping, once its off you can't put it back on and with the winter setting in err on the side of caution to start with.
Here's a website that may be of help:
http://www.peasridge.co.uk/clipper-advice/clippers-clipping-advice-horses-types-of-horse-clips.shtml
 
definately a chaser clip its so cold at night...and like mentioned probably at the minute you shouldnt be riding 2 or so hours...build up her fitness slowly and lots and lots of walking and hill work like the hunters do!:)
 
Agree with other posters. My older boy has a chaser clip. He is still quite fit hacking 2-4 times a week for up to 2 hours and this clip does the trick
 
As others have said, if the pony is very unfit, you need to build the work up slowly. I'd say to do a chaser now, then in 6wks or so when she's fitter you can always take off more when you reclip.
 
well i don't ride her for two hours every day and definitely don't make her do 2 hours altogether at once. i normally ride her for half an hour to an hour but she does 1 hour hacks along with that somedays which are mostly walk. i would never make her do too much.

thanks to everybody who recommended me a clip or website to help:)
 
Also have you any idea if she has ever been clipped before? I would try just a bib, for a first attempt, perhaps extending it under the girth/belly (sort of a semi-Irish but without the top of the legs, if that makes sense) - if she isn't too offended.

I have a hairy beastie who manages all winter with this arrangement without sweating up, though sometimes I go as far as a "proper" Irish- but I am a bit of a fair-weather rider in the winter and also too blinkin' mean to buy a ton of rugs :D

Good luck
 
Start by talking the least off possible and then if she handles it ok, extend to a chaser, last year I was asked to clip someones pony and he positively shook at the clippers, but he was a saint when we switched to a quieter gentler pair of trimmers, and we managed to do a chaser with those :D
 
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