Re: RC: Re: The problem with sponging

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 01:49 AM 4/18/00 -0500, Darolyn wrote:
> I'm talkin' clean sponges!!!

You must be talking clean horses too!  After my horses start
sweating, they pick up dust with the sweat & are filthy pretty
quick.  I can't imagine any sponge of mine would be clean after the
first time.

I once was sponged by someone who took pity on me & was wiping blood
off my arms (I had slammed into a tree) with a horse sponge.  I
literally screamed with the pain!  Might as well just have rubbed
salt directly in my wounds. 

My feeling is that one person sponging in drinking water is one thing,
but 25?  50?  Hundreds?  We're talking LOTS of salts &
road dust & maybe even fly spray residue & show sheen, antibiotic
ointments, vasoline, who knows what all else.  Yucky drinking water
for the poor horses!  Lif

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