Three simple ways to help your horse

1. Keeping your horse or pony warm before and after exercise helps protect the muscles from cramping and any resulting tissue damage. Putting a suitable rug on your hunting, trek or competition horse for traveling will keep his muscles warm before work and help cool him gently at the end of a tough day. Keeping him warm also helps prevent excitable or naughty behaviour.

2. A clipped horse loses a significant amount of body heat through its head and neck. In order to keep himself warm he will use his energy stores, which will cause him to lose weight and under-perform. Using turn-out rugs and stable-rugs with hoods or neck covers will not only help keep weight on, but will reduce the number of times he needs to be clipped.

3. The bone found in the horse's tail, the dock, is a continuation of the spine. It is flexible and is essential in helping the horse balance. Damage to this sensitive area, usually caused if unprotected during travel is not only very painful to the horse but can seriously affect its movement, causing lameness. Damage can be permanent. Prevention and protection is easy and inexpensive. A tail guard or bandage protects the dock from pressure if the horse leans during travel. An essential item for every traveling horse throughout the year.

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Buying a Rug

To calculate the correct size rug
(1) for your horse, measure from the middle of the chest around to the back of the posterior in cms
(2). To select the correct size, measure according to 2 and use the corresponding size in 1.
If in doubt, it is always advisable to be a little generous.