White boots/bandages - who uses them?

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I bought some brushing boots yesterday, woof wear ones i had to get them in white as they didnt have any black in stock and couldnt wait for the black to come in! i figured that since they will only be used for schooling and road work then white wont be too bad :) have to say she looks very smart with her matching saddle cloth :)

Its funny though as last year she was kept out and always caked in mud! when i took her out with my friend who also had her horse living out we always used to laugh and say we looked scruffy compared to the local livery yard, and even used to laugh at the thought of having white boots in all the mud!! as soon as i moved onto livery my friend laughed and said next thing you will have white boots, and well i guess she was right! :D
Now my horse is at livery shes always spotless!

So who else has white boots? :D
 
i dont have them cos my pony doesnt really need boots he just has a little black pair for pony club and jumping but they do look very smart :)
 
Lucy had white boots for the warm up for dressage. (trying to look like a proper dressage pony, Till we went in the arena anyway :p) All other times she wore green ones.
 
I had to get white bandages as my RI at the time told me he couldn't see my v.dark bay horse in the indoor school in the winter without them! :rolleyes: Then I got given a nice eskadron set as a present but hardly ever use them.
 
I think this says it all :D ..

Mysti looks very very poosh ;) ..

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And these were Honeys once white overreach boots :p ..

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Love my white boots! stopped using my black ones...will only put the black ones on to T.O if its icy!

Makes their legs show up on the road for hacking..!
 
All my brushing boots and over-reach boots are white for two reasons - it's always the white ones that end up in the sale, and a white boot was much easier to relocate in the field when lost by my old tb.

(Please don't start on the dangers of over-reach boots for turnout, I know)
 
Me!
Most of my boots, bandages & numnahs are white. I am a bit of a clean freak, and having had fine skinned TBs for a while, I have several sets and each is washed after every use.

My current boy has very sensitive skin, and I would want to wash his boots after every use regardless of what colour they were, so they might as well be white :D :D
 
I hate white boots on black legs (but do understand the dressage reason before anyone leaps on that comment) and black boots on white legs. So anything with white legs wore white, black legs wore black, fortunately I never had to decide whether to use one black and one white.

Why don't they make chestnut boots and girths? I asked several manufacturers that and they said that there would be no call for them although they hadn't actually done any research on the matter!:mad:

If you had a chestnut horse would you use 'chestnut' boots and tack?
 
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I have premier equine white sports boots with the airflow technology. My horse has big white blaze, four white socks and white saddlecloth so looks very smart in matching boots for photographer at fun rides, or whilst doing XC.
 
ok - maybe a thick question here - but why are they used by dressage peeps? is there a reason or just now a trend?!

personally - anything white goes brown pretty quickly with me so i try not to own anything other than black or brown stuff!
 
I do! White boots on white legs. She's skewbald, so black boots look a bit out of place to me. Plus I think they look really smart :)
 
Well she looked very smart today :) white saddle pad, white boots, shes a bright bay TB with black legs so they really stood out! i always put boots on her now, the other week when i had to take boots off her (they where rubbing her) she knocked the inside of her leg with her other hoof and caused a cut which bled for ages!!! typical.
I need to get a set for her hind legs now :)
Infact i have been looking at matching bandages and saddle pads and am thinking lime green would be nice :D
 
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