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Me too Alice,
I have been riding my horses wet or damp for years. Long ago I 
decided that; sucking in all that dust while brushing them off; then 
still having to clean the sweat-muddied pad; then watching the after 
riding hosed off and clean horse roll in the dirt for 5 minutes; was 
not the best order of things. Now I almost always hose the horse off 
first especially if it is muddy out or even cold (below 50 is really 
cold here in SoCal :-[) then saddle up and ride'em dry. The big plus 
is my tack stays very clean. The 900lb piglet still rolls in the dirt 
for 5 minutes but who cares, he was clean when it counted. The other 
plus to riding a wet horse when he's fresh is that the saddle pad and 
girth grip the wet fur much better than slick dry fur giving me a 
much more solid saddle fit for those start-of-the-ride antics without 
pulling the cinch way tight. Just my experience,
Don Huston

At 08:04 AM 7/9/2007 Monday, you wrote:
> It's been so muddy and nasty where we are that I've been regularly 
> hosing my horses off before I ride them. It seems to help them stay 
> cool when they're ridden as well.
>
> Alice Yovich, LMT, MT-BC
> Massage and Music Therapy
> Arlington, TX (reg 4)
> www.equithreads.com

Don Huston at cox dot net
SanDiego, Calif 



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