ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] clipping in April???

Re: [endurance] clipping in April???

Sue Cunningham (mdpyssc@fs1.scg.man.ac.uk)
Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:12:06 +0000

> NO NO - don't clip - waaayyyy too late in the season. Horses start
> getting in their summer coat mid to late January - any clipping after that
> will nick the ends of the summer coat and it will look like crap all
> summer.

This is what I have always been told, but we do sometimes clip them
completely out in March and their summer coats come through just
fine. We had this discussion on uk-riders recently, and several
people said they had clipped late without any ill effects. Of course
none of us have horses that look like show horses to start with :-)

Sue
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