How to Groom Your Horse for an English Show

Video Transcript

"When grooming your horse for a horse show it's important to pay special care to details. Your horse should be clipped and if it's warm enough they should be bathed. After you've done those things, you'll go through the regular grooming process of using the curry comb, a hard brush and a soft brush, but you'll also want to pay more attention to their mane, forelock and tail. I'll begin with combing out the horse's forelock. And mane. The mane should be pulled if it's an English show, and it should be pulled a little bit shorter then this mane is here. Then we are also going to comb out the horse's tail. To do this in a way that doesn't end up pulling out a lot of extra hair, we are going to use a product that is going to help make it a little bit slippery. So I'll start just by spraying some of the product throughout her tail, paying special attention to the ends of the tail where a lot of the knots can end up. Then I'm going to start by just combing out the very bottom of the tail, and just going to start to take one piece at a time, starting at the bottom, working my way up to avoid pulling out more hair then necessary. And then I'll just keep adding small pieces until I'm all the way through. The last thing you can do in preparing for a horse show is to spray some kind of a show product on your horse's coat. This is going to make it a little bit glossy and shiny. It's important that though that you don't spray it on the area that the saddle goes in. Cause it can make it really slippery, for your saddle. So I'll spray it on her haunches, her legs, to keep them white, and her shoulder and neck and then take a soft brush and just brush it over to smooth it out."