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i think that is brave of you to admit sillymare as i was just going to post and say noone is going to admit it for their own vanity!!

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I don't. A has a trace clip & T is having the winter off so she's naked! A will cope with a 45 min hard schooling session & will only be slightly sticky on her neck. She's in at night coz the field is too wet, but she prefers to be out than in during the day so a trace clip is ideal.
 
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what totally lills me is when someone insists they have to clip full so the horse 'wont get sweat rash' or ' i cant wait about for him to dry' and then leave a saddle patch. not really understanding the logic there.

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Surely there is a big difference between a horse that is completely wet all over vs just a wet saddle patch in terms of drying time?

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Mine has a "rugby ball" so makes NO difference to him drying off, and I hot towel that the same as i do the rest of him to take the sweat out of his coat. Agree, completely different to having a "blanket" of hair drying off
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Grace gets a rash when she gets sweaty, so I fully clip her (including head as behind her ears gets the same) and leave her legs on because she has not much feather
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Han is fully clipped, legs and all, all year around because she is a horse that gets warm very very easily and is much more comfortable clipped
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She has her legs off because she is part carthorse and gets HUGE feathers which take ages to dry when she goes out
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forgot to add... it is also drying time. My time is very precious, and I like spending time riding the two girls and I do something with Troy every day. So taking over 30 mins to dry (which Grace was before being fully clipped) is just not possible at the moment.
 
I once clipped my horse with a high trace clip hacked him out and he came back a sweaty mess despite only walking and trotting so took the whole lot off! He is quite a hot horse and for a TB grows a very thick coat. I always leave the legs because they are turned out on wet clay for 10 hours a day and we never have mud fever as long as the legs are hairy. Even though it vexes me I let the feathers grow.
 
Obviously ours don't work very hard as they hardly sweat with a blanket clip or high trace. I will tell her to work them harder, lazy pair.lol.
You all seem to work quite hard with your horses but the ones near me honestly only walk down the road and back and it does make me smile. I don't mind what people do with their own horses but some do have problems with their horses and just want people to realise that when they put lots of rugs on for 23 hours they can cause pressure problems and to just be aware of rug comfort as they would their saddles.
Some seem very touchy on the subject !
 
I have a very hot horse, if I was to walk up the road and back he would get hot.
I take all his coat off just becuase of that fact, he is 17 years old and his hair gets sooooo long
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I take his fur off his legs too as he suffers with really bad mud feavor and it helps me maintain his legs better and I can see what is going on under all that hair!!

If I did nothing with my horse over the winter then I would not even clip.
 
To eliminate the mud, and stop them getting so hot!!

Tigs does loose weight easily and in the winter is only ridden at weekends with the odd lesson in the week (until the nights get longer). He is in at night and has lots of thick rugs but he just seems a happier horse when he's clipped out fully! He hates being groomed with a passion...so the only way to get the mud off this hippo and keep him happy is reduce the hair it can stick to and use a body brush!!

Last year I wanted to see if keeping more coat would help with his weight so I tried a chaser and he just got so hot when ridden, so I did a blanket... same problem, he was taking ages to dry. And it made no difference to his weight.
This year I did a hunter first time and a blanket 2nd time which has worked well as the blanket isn't as long as his legs...

Felix has such a fine coat he isn't clipped yet, but might do it at the weekend as he's just started getting a bit hot. He is doing the same amount of work as Tigs and is 4 so never been clipped before!

Charlie has a chaser, he is only 4 and doing the same work as above, it seems OK on him but he is also out 24/7 and was rather nervous about having his first clip, hence the small amount we did clip... once the stables are finished I will probably give him a blanket or a full!

Ed is on box rest so unclipped but as soon as he is back in work we'll be taking it all off as he looks such a mess when he changes his coat, he looks like he's got mange!!

So I guess really I do it for their own comfort, I don't see a problem so long as you have enough rugs to keep them warm!

The worst thing I think is the people who fully clip but don't have the right rugs to ensure their horse is warm enough!!
 
I clip the body, leaving legs and a saddle patch. Why? Because this horse has an amazingly thick coat and gets very very sweaty under it, a blanket clip would be pointless. My old horse never grew a winter coat at all so was never clipped! But she looked like she was LOL.

Each to their own. So long as the horse is warm and comfortable, who cares!
 
I have 7 horses, 5 in work and there is very few hours to do them, so the five get a hunter clip, ie I leave the legs, half head and a gelpad patch. My favourite grooming tool is a damp cloth - call me lazy, but life is sooo much easier that way
 
I hunter clip, although my horse is schooled 3 times a week in the week (work till late so can't do anything else) and hacked at weekends.
I always use an exercise sheet (when it's cold, obviously) as I had a mare who tied up, and I'm conscious of the effect of cold air at night on my cob's huge backside.
I have also seen many threads on this forum deriding people for not using fluorescent kit when hacking, so am confused as to why it could be amusing that people use (fluorescent) exercise sheets????
 
Despite my horse being a TB, his coat thinks he's native and he looks like cousin It in the winter. He's also being worked 6 days a week and sweats up like you wouldn't believe when he has got a coat. When it's as cold as it has been, he'd prob get a chill.

Also, I don't have 5 hours to wait whilst he dries off before I go to work for 8.30am!!
 
ditto what most other people say really, i have a horse who works 6 days a week, hardish, and i have to juggle him aorund uni and work, so i cant be waiting hours for him to dry, and i have been bought up to never ever turn out a damp horse, so therfore he is hunter clipped and rugged up
if i am walk hacking him then yes, he will have an excersize sheet on, and you could say that the full clip isnt necesary, but then after a jump session in the school he needs the clip as he gets hot. i would much rather be able to rug up and keep a horse warm, rather than be always trying to cool them and dry them
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I never used to but with the horse I have now, he is soooo sensitive to sweat rash etc so as a result gets hot clothed/washed after hunting etc. He has a 1/2 head and 4 legs with a "Denman" shaped saddle patch - long on shoulders and kidneys. . looks fab!
everyone else had a high blanket.
 
Hen is fully clipped (legs off every other clip and head off for his first winter clip), he has a ridiculously thick coat, and walking for ten minutes with anything less than a full clip would have him dripping with sweat! He hunts every now and again, schools a couple of times a week, but mainly is walking with some trot and maybe a canter for an hour or so a day.

He feels the cold like you wouldn't believe though, and has three rugs on at night
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Not me being a mollycoddling mother, everyone who has ever looked after Hen has been amazed at how cold he gets!

Eric has nothing off yet, he doesn't sweat iin the workk his in at the moment and is a bit skinnier than I would like, so we are trying to keep him warm.
 
I have 3 reasons, the first is because he's a wooly beast nd sweats like a pig when being a lunatic, the second is because he hates being groomed so when he's moulting nd i try and get all loose hair out he tries to kick my head in and the last is because i can't do straight lines!
 
My horse has only ever had a blanket clip with me, but if I did clip her out completely then it would be 1) because it drove me crazy having to dandy brush her back and body brush her belly, and 2) because it's my horse, I pay for her, I wouldn't neglect her, so I can do what I like
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I have no issue with those who clip out and then use exercise sheets. Maybe once a week they go hunting, and the rest of the week their horse doesn't get warm enough to work without a sheet?
I am amazed at the number of brave people who admit to full clips just because they can't do straight lines!
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Who the hell would NOT wear an exercise sheet on a fully clipped horse if they're just doing walk work or hacking? Just because its clipped doesnt mean it must work hard every day of the week! I dont really understand why you'd criticise that?
I blanket/trace clip anything thats in light work.
I hunter clip the youngsters in work & competing, leaving heads/legs on - because they get too hot otherwise.
And the older horses that are competing seriously gets legs heads everything off because they need to look 100% brilliant, as well as them getting hot with both working alot and alot of travelling.
 
i clip mine out as 1 of mine is the devil to clip so you dont have time to mess around doing lines. another of mine sweats so much just going out for a walk she needs everything taking off (she has half a head left on and her legs)
 
I clearly have a very cold pony
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, who never works hard. He has a bib clip, and a huge pony coat, currently competing driven one day events or dressage at the weekends, ridden twice on a saturday, once schooling and a fast hack, as well as school work most week nights. He only ever get hot when he does really hard schooling, or alot of canter or jump work that gets him stressy. I wouldn't want to fully clip him- I might have to start feeding him! TBH he would look so much smarter fully clipped, but for one or two hours sweaty a week I can't be faffed.
Prehaps the fact I ride before 6AM and after 9PM means he doesn't get hot- as it is usually freezing out
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usually every year Merlin gets a blanket clip - but usually just because he can feel the cold a little more than most on his kidney area.

this year he got a hunter clip last week as he is on fitness work and will be going hunting after christmas (oviously when fit enough) plus the clippers are not really up to doing blanket clips
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Afraid another one that just likes her horse to look smart, hates the hair when it moults (in my defence I'm asthmatic and get hayfever type allergies to it).
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I had to really take myself in hand not to fully clip (well hunter clip as I only ever do half head and don't do legs) my mare when she was on week 4 of her rehab programme for her tendon after a year off!!!! She wasn't sweaty, I just wanted to clip her because in a weird silly way it was like getting my horse back after nearly having to retire her through the injury and her being a scruffy, hairy (yes probably happy!!) horse for a year!

I did a trace in the end, but will she have a full clip at Christmas, even though we are still only on trot work (although doing 50 minutes walk/trot a day) - errr yes very probably!
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Interestingly, she is a TBxwarmblood and never looks that hairy, but sweats like mad and when in proper full work hates being hot with a full coat. My niece's little coloured cobxNF has a full coat that would make a polar bear proud, but sweat? him? hardly ever, even when cantering/jumping etc. Plus his full coat is so lovely and thick and lies really flat and looks lovely, whereas Minnie gets a stupid fluffy effect that sticks up and looks awful!
 
The TB mare has a blanket this year, and the IDx has a hunter clip. I have tried a blanket on her previously, but she sweats over her back/loins as well and has a v thick coat so was a bit uncomfortable. It was also a nightmare to clean her up after hunting.
The TB mare has a much finer coat, and even after hunting is easy to clean. She has had a chaser clip in the past, but decided to take her neck off ie the blanket this year as she would be hunting. I think she would look 'skinny' in a hunter clip, hence leaving the hair on her back.
I would never take their legs off if the horse was doing any form of XC or hunting over the winter, as I can just imagine the boot rubs and cuts that would ensue.
Sorry for the random musings.

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I clip fully, legs and all, because it looks better and with a grey and a coloured with a lot of white, it is easier to keep them clean as long hair stains and takes too long to dry when being washed for shows.

I would still clip legs etc even if they had no white as I hate hairy horses!!

Mine go out all day and one good rug and one light under rug keep them warm.
 
Mines fully clipped and wears a flurescent exercise sheet for hacking out in, she never wears it at other times it isn't for keeping warm if I wanted that I'd have left her coat on, its so we don't get splated on the busy roads!
This year I have fully clipped her because 2 years ago when she only had a blanket clip and would be sweating in lessons and on fast hacks. So this year the work load hasn't changed if anything it is harder with our new dressage lessons. She prob isn't doing as much as some would think would need a full clip but to be honest I don't care, each horse is different and if I want to clip mine out and rug it instead then thats up to me!
 
I take all of Gins off as she gets sweaty if not and takes ages to dry. I have to take the saddle patch off as she gets lumps and her legs come off otherwise her hair comes out in clumps. I last clipped her at the beginning of november and was told at beginning of december that she had to have time off. If I had known then I would have left her fluffly.
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I clip Shadow out (apart from her legs) as I can't do lines to save my life and she adores being clipped but mainly on her bum so if I have to clip that I have to do the rest.......

She's only just coming back into work after an injury so doesn't really need more than a trace, but she's grey and a darn sight easier to keep clean bare
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Zac isnt clipped at the mo as hes only doing road work but come the weekend he will start on the gallops on a mission to become a racehorse so will be clipped fully out then as hes only out for about 2 hours and will have a neck rug on to keep him clean!!
 
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Mine is turned out every day for about 10hourse, but is fully clipped as he gets worked most evenings, gets sweaty if he isnt clipped fully, and I havent got the time to be hanging around all night to wait for him to dry off so I can rug him properly. As he is fully clipped, he gets worked, hot clothed and rugged up so he is warm and dry all night, and I'm not hanging around till 10 at night!!

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Ditto!

We also hunt and compete a lot of the time though
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