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I was just doing some cursory winter rug shopping and thought maybe it'd be a good idea to get some reccomendations, so please if you will pick your favourite

1. Lightweight turnout
2. Mediumweight turnout
3. Heavyweight turnout
4. Lightweight stable
5. Mediumweight stable
6. Heavyweight stable

If you could state the reasons you rate them that would be great
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Thanks!!
 
It really depends on the build of the horse - some rugs fit particular types better.

I guess you cant really go wrong with Rambo or Fal for outdoor rugs - the higher the denier the better for me. With stable rugs you can get cheaper ones, but I prefer ones which have some sort of coating so they dont get so dirty.

I have a mixture of WB, Fal, Horseware (Rambo and Amigo - dont seem to get on with Rhino) and Mark Todd rugs. I also have a really nice pessoa HW turnout and have recently bought a few Premier Equine rugs which havent been used yet so can't comment. I have a chunky TB and a finer TB and they seem to fit them both.
 
fal all the way as they are great fits nice and deep and rebust and last for every you definetley get what you pay for. i don't do stable rugs as they fal rugs are breatheble so don't need them and there is no piont striping the horse down and making ti cold to put a different rug on it
 
1. Lightweight turnout
*My masta check tech LW , it fits the moose well and has zips on the neck so there isn't a gap for rain etc to get in
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2. Mediumweight turnout
*My bucas smartex turnout - expensive but genius*

3. Heavyweight turnout
*Rambo Supreme - it just speaks for itself its lasted years!*

4. Lightweight stable
**Don't own one - she just wears a thermatex and a summer sheet if needs be**

5. Mediumweight stable
*Bucas Celtic SR - I love the design of it and it fits well*

6. Heavyweight stable
*Shires 500g!* - Cheep and warm!
 
QR i have lots of light and medium weight stable rugs so that i can layer them as appropriate for the weather- it has to be really cold for me to dig out the real heavyweight rugs as if it goes a bit warmer you have to fully change the rugs rather than just pulling one off the top. turnout wise i tend to put quite heavyweight ones on plus a neck cover but i have wimpy/pampered horses
 
I rate the William Funnell lightweight stable rugs- the only brand I've ever come across that has the nylon lining in a light weight and a sensible velcro system across the chest. Or the Mark Todd summer sheets are good.
Heavyweight stable rugs, GFS Riding stable rug, cheap, durable, nylon lined, keeps my horse toasty warm
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Lightweight turnout would be the rhino, doesn't leak, durable and again nylon lining.
Heavyweight turnout would be my Weatherbeeta (Orion/Orican freestyle range perhaps?) durable, nylon lining, sensible neck cover fastenings (not fiddly like on the Rambo's which is a bonus for winter when you've got 2 pairs of gloves on!). I had mine for 3 years and it was still going strong until it was stolen
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Have to say yet to find anything I am particularly thrilled about it the middleweight group. I tend to use an original rambo that is many years old and has been washed often enough that it now classes as a mw opposed to a hw!
 
oh and in terms of make wetherbeeta are my faves and i like masta too (i won £500 of their rugs last year- very pleased with them!)
 
Lightweight turnout - Bucas sunshower. Pure genius, reflects the sun on those days where you (I) get it wrong!

Middleweight turnout - the new bucas ones - they have a temp range of something like -1 to 15 (and the more expensive ones have a bigger range) which couldn't be better in my opinon - so prob also counts as heavy weight. My precious beast survived the winter in this rather than me having to layer loads of rugs.

Also really like the bucas stable rugs - but she isn't getting one of those yet as there is still plenty of life left in the Mark todd which has survived really well also (she is a bit of a rug wrecker)

Have always had horseware rugrs in the past which have all lasted brilliantly. The ponies are all still going strong (last I heard as she in on loan atm)
 
Here's mine by the by:

1, Amigo lightweight combo - this came with Ed and survived an absolute thrashing through the winter and with a bit of patching up, will survive next winter too!

2. Rhino medium weight - Again came with Ed,fits him perfectly and keeps him snug on those slightly chilly days

3. Heavyweight - I really rate the stormcheeta one I have its thick as but quite resonable, some HW's are extortionate

4. Weatherbeeta lightweight stable rug - ideal for Sept-Nov on an unclipped horse

As for 5 and 6 I have never had them but might need them this year!

7. I have a newmarket wool fleece, one of the original types which does everything, its stunning, again came with Ed care of his lovely mummy!!
 
Premier Equine or Horseware all the way for turnouts. My poor deprived horse has a collection of over 20 rugs- for every imaginable weather condition!
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I have the Premier Quine Buster range in everything from 70g to 400g (X4 rugs) as they are deep and have lovely snug neck covers.
He also has the Rambo Duo, a Rhino MW and the Amigo LW.

Stable rugs wise he has a Fal HW, an Amigo HW and a Masta MW plus a range of waffles and fleeces.

HW and Premier Equine definitely fit him the best of all the makes I've tried. He's a chuinky sport horse. (mostly TB with WC)
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I don't bother with heavyweight turnouts - I just have a range of "under" rugs ranging from a fleece to a middleweight stable rug via everything else in between and layer them up accordingly. FAL all the way for all tunrout rugs. I find that their lightweight rugs are the only ones that really keep the rain out. They're expensive but they last. His main turnout has just come back from being washed after its 4th winter and just needed a small tear patching - in comparison he had a weatherbeeta that lasted 2 days! Because they last, you can normally find good bargains on 2nd hand ones on e-bay.
 
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