what type of legwear does your horse wear?

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Travel boots, and then although I have a huge collection of boots, I no longer use any as they damage the legs in the long run... overheating and compresion... Just my opinion. Would use them out hunting though, as you never know what your going to step on/through, pair of brushing boots saved my ponies leg from being cut by a wire fence a long time ago.
 
I use travel boots for travelling, thats about it! On rare occasions I do xc I'll use brushing boots, and I use my reflective ones if I'm going on the roads.
 
bandages for schooling (which is most of the time!) and bandages with N.E.W sports boots over and over reach boots for hacking.
Turned out in brushing boots with over reach boots.
Travels to shows / lessons with travel boots and bandages undrneath (the ons to be worn for the lesson/working in). Travels back just in travel boots.
She sleeps in bandages over eskadron climate control wraps every night that she has been exercised during the day and when clipped (ie.winter) she wears thermatex leg wraps the nights she hasn't been exercised.
In summer if she hasn't been ridden in day she has naked legs at night!
 
My secret santa gave me some lovely polo bandages for chistmas which will be used for schooling. Also have brushing boots which I use. For SJ comps I use tendon and fetlock boots and overreach if they need it. For xc i have yellow bandages which I use over porta boot. But for xc schooloing I use brushing boots
 
My old lady wears sports boots for everything now, admittedly she only shcools and hacks. She has reflective bands around them for hacking.
All others go naked for general schooling.

For hacking everything one else wears reflective brushing boots in front. For fittening work on the roads/schooling on hard ground in the summer, they'll wear bandages.

When playing polox they wear either sports boots or polo bandages with tendon boots over the top in front and skid boots over the top behind. Overreaches all round.

One mare wears veredus magnetik boots in the stable.

Don't use anything for traveling on mine. If its something new to me i might bandage it for the first couple of journeys until i'm confident it knows how to stand up, bu have had lots that i've left naked.

phew.... variety is the spice of life!
 
Over reach boots for travelling (with travel boots... but mine are the soft travel boots that sometimes move around.)

Tendon boots for jumping

Tendon boots and fetlock boots and over reach boots for XC (neurotic mother that I am
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Brushing, over reach & knee boots for road work. Brushing for schooling. Tendon for jumping, prolite XC front & back for XC.

Travel boots for short journeys, bandages for long.

I would highly recomend the Prolite Xc boots for not slipping. Not a great fan of Clarendons as the soak up water xc.
 
Mine have over reach boots and the NEW competition boots on the front which have a tendon protector, and woof wear brushing boots on the back.
 
Travel boots when travelling... often with bandages on underneath if he's competing (polo bandages with eskadron climate control wraps)

Schooling - which is what we do most of - he's normally bandaged (again polo bandages with eskadron wraps underneath). He's also got a full set of the equilibrium wraps in both black and white for the odd day when im short on time of havent got bandages dried.

Jumping usually brushing boots all round. We dont hack anymore because we lost access to the fields, but when we did he had professional choice boots on all round (the combined ones in front with the built in over reach boot). Occasionally used knee boots if we were heading into the village also.

Usually equilibrium wraps overnight. But he also has some magnotherapy wraps and I bandages when everything else needs washing.
 
Hacking - nothing.
Schooling - polo bandages if I need her to not poo on her legs, i.e. at a show, otherwise nothing.
Jumping - Prolite closed front tendon boots, nothing behind.
XC - Prolite boots all round.
Travelling - travel boots on the front, and Prolite hind boots and over reach boots on the back (she kicks when she travels with travel boots or bandages on behind, and as I don't have my own trailer I don't want to destroy the one I rent!)
Stable bandages at night only when I need her kept clean.
 
Brushing boots all round for hacking or schooling, plus over reach boots for proper hacks like richmond park

Prolites and over reach boots for xc and hunting

Over reach boots and bandages when travelling

Stable bandages or thermatex wraps when stabled overnight.
 
my mare has tendon/support wraps for schooling, or bandages

heavy duty brushing behind for hacking and bandages in front and for jumping XC she has wrap/tendon support in front and bandages behind

long wrap tendon boots for turnout (fronts) and brushing on her backs

also over reach when ever ridden

she wears full set of travel boots for journeys

shes clumsy so i keep her well protected!!

if in for more than a day she wears stable bandages behind.
 
Just out of interest - to those who always wear brushing boots, do your horses brush??

Personally I use bugger all most the time even jumping
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I do tend to boot up for comps because of the added excitement but thats it
 
Flatwork - brushing boots behind, polo wraps in front
Hacking - brushing boots behind
SJ - open fronted tendon boots and overreach in front and fetlock boots behind
XC or sponsored rides - clarendons all round
travelling - whatever he will have on when he gets there if alone, travel boots if in company!
 
Exercising: bandages in front, fetlock boots or bandages behind
Lunging: bandages all round and over-reachers
Competing(SJ): open fronted tendon boots and fetlock boots behind
Also wears competition boots if away somewhere schooling
 
My horse does not brush, or over reach, but I only put these boots on her for hacking and in the field, that is because these are both situations in which she gets very excited and very silly and I worry that in all the leaping around she will catch herself.
Her bandages for schooling are obviously for support (as they are for hacking under the boots for protection), she is not schooled in over reaches either!!!
 
The boy has more boots than any other horse I know! He wears general Woof brushing boots for turnout with normal over-reach.

For schooling he wears equilibrium wraps and no over-reach.

Out hacking then its sports boots all round and the front ones have built in OR boots or polo bandages if the ground is dry.

For SJ I use tendon/fetlock boots and for XC I use NEW pro-light XC all round and OR boots.

If its an XC without water and I can be arsed I'll use bandages.

waaaaa how daft am I?
 
Schooling - brushing boots all round
Dressage competitions - equilibrium wraps all round
Hacking - brushing boots all round
Showjumping - over-reach boots in front, tendon boots in front, fetlock boots behind
Cross-Country - Brushing boots all round, over-reach boots in front
Travelling - Knee boots, hock boots, over-reach boots, Mark Todd travelling boots
Turn-out - over-reach boots all round, turn-out chaps all round

I tend to wrap up my horse more as he becomes more valuable as can't risk/afford injuries. Poor boy always seems to be kitted up! Had serious knee injury when fell on ramp to travel so added knee boots and hock boots to the travel boots I already use. Then he jumped out his field and got kicked in the field and his turn-out boots saved his legs! You can't win!
 
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