I plan on showing my APHA stallion at a bunch of open shows this year for HUS, english pleasure, and h/j. My question is about his mane. His mane is currently very long (way past his neck). With just open shows do I need to cut his mane short? If so, how short? Does it need to be braided for each show? If so, should his tail be braided as well?
If you cut it, you have to cut it rather short, 3-5 inches more or less. If you don't want to cut off all of his beautiful mane, maybe just trim it a little and do a very tight running braid along his neck like equiniphile suggested.
If' its really nice, long and thick I'd go with the running braid as suggested. I personally pull/cut (I'm using solocomb), BUT my mare's manes were short and rather thin to start with.
Yup, definitely do a running braid. Or trim it an inch or two and do rosettes (or something like that). Though it still might be too long for those. Not sure, I never did a horse's mane/tail. :/
Anyone?
Not every horse tolerates the mane being pulled. I use the combination of solocomb + scissors + pulling comb on my qh because pulling simply doesn't work on her. My neighbor (and she's a dressage rider with years of showing experience) can't pull on her old horse either, while her pony and OTTB are OK about it.
I think it depends on how you do it. I tried once and should admit it looked bad (that's why I got solocomb instead). But my neighbor's work looks very nice and natural (she has more patient too to cut hair-by-hair straight up through whole mane :wink: ).
Problem with cutting the mane is when you come to plait it you end up with short spikey bits popping out of your plaits and making life difficult. Yes I've tried a solocomb and on manes that dont have to be plaited they do a very good job, but not ones that have to be plaited.
I am absolutly obsessive about my lots plaits and cant stand stray hairs popping out of them.
If you know how you can:
Thin a thick, short mane without losing the length
Shorten a long thin mane without losing what thickness you do have
Shorten and thin a long, thick mane.
Hmmm, interesting. Thanks a lot. Any videos you would recommend that show you how to do all that? I would like to get a general idea of the art of pulling. :P
I agree. I was under the belief his mane couldn't be pulled due to the length. Any chance of someone being able to show how to do this with a long mane? All the videos I've seen are of like 5 inch long manes.
That device is pretty much an oddly shaped pair of pliers.
No I wouldnt use it as Ilike being able to feel what I am doing.
If you get sore fingers when pulling you need to either wear latex/surgical gloves or coat your fingers in plasters.
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