welcome to another video. We've got a special treat for you today
from the Budget Equestrian - Lisa Goodwin has sent me in a video and we are
collaborating on this video together thank you Lisa of the Budget
Equestrian and if you're not already go to the budget equestrian on YouTube and
subscribe to her Channel take it away Lisa well hello there my
name is Lisa and I am the budget equestrian and I thought it would be fun
to pick Laura's brain not literally but pick her brain on her thoughts of me
getting my horse Ethan ready to go to a horse show Ethan is an 11 year old
thoroughbred gelding that I've had for about three years now almost three years
officially and next summer I really want to take him to a show so I'm gonna get
him dolled up and get him all pretty and presentable to go to a horse show now
this is just for pretend and it's just a test run but I thought it would be
really fun to exploit Laura's experience and find out what I'm missing what I'm
lacking in what I can do better and what I'm doing okay so with that let's go and
get Ethan ready for a horse show
so you can see from this video that she is just taking the horse out of the
pasture and it's got hay all over it so there's a before and an after picture
and we could see what Lisa is doing with her horse so stay tuned if you'd like to
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as you can see in this video lisa is taking her horse right out of
the paddock and she like this is not a made-up thing where everything is done
and she's just putting stuff up you get to see her horse it's just coming in
from the outdoor turn out where where she is
and she does a full grooming and you can see the horse the Ethan he is she's had
a thoroughbred and you can see that he is beautiful condition he's looks like
he's in good weight his coat is really nice and shiny and looks like he's been
eating pretty well she's spraying I think it might be fly spray or something
maybe it's some sort of show Sheen type of stuff and she's doing her ink and
when she's curring you can see the dust coming up there all he's really dusty
and dirty I guess that's from the sand where he's
turned out some horse just like it a lot some horses don't like it so you have to
you can see the hair to set time of year where the horses are shitting out to
make way for the winter coat she's really look at the hair coming off him
looks good so that currying just brings all the dirt
to the surface so that you can brush it away it also stimulates the skin looks
good looks like he's got a scar there or something once you do that she's got the
body brush doing a nice body brush there
there's a wipe Wiping the horses face
and then she's brushing the horse's mane
looks like she's cut the horse's mane with scissors though we'd like to have
the horse's mane pulled and pulling the horse's mane makes it easier for it to
braidfor a horse show and I kind of cheat on that pulling the horse's mane instead of
pulling the hair out I just cut the hair so I push the mane. You pull the horse's
mane you know you slide the horses hair up wrap the hair around and pull it out
instead of wrapping the hair around and pulling it out I just clip it so she's
doing a little bridle path there very nice always good to have a nice neat
place to put the bridle not too long just enough there and now she's brushing
the horse's tail when brushing the horse's tail you have to be careful
that you don't break the hair she's being very gentle and another way to
brush the horse's tail is to hold it off to the side like that and just one hair
at a time separate the hairs out rather than getting the whole horse's tail and
here she is braiding the horse's tail
starting at the top good way to practice and she does it with the braid on the
top it looks really nice so you can see that braided tail here looks very nice
great job Lisa but if I was going to a horse show off the property I would hire
somebody to braid my horse's tail you've got some really good good parts here
near the bottom but there's some twisted or miss braids and I bet you it's going
to be loose and falling out before you get to them before you get to the horse
show I would wait until after I do the main to do the tail the tail should be
the last one to do done now she's starting the mane grooming brushing the mane
great I would probably personally want to have it a little shorter thinner when
you cut the end like that it makes it blunt at the bottom
but he's a thoroughbred and yeah I think when you're doing your Mane you want it
just the width of your hand that looks a little bit longer than what I would like
to have because she's got to turn it under twice
also when you're braiding rather than just separating with your fingers use a
comb so that there's a definite part and again if you're going in a horse show
horse show at your own stable or a training show at your own stable then that's
great but going off property ... or something oil love the look of the
hoof oil and this is great but again just before you go into the show ring
put a ring of oil over top of the horse's hoof just before you step into
the ring then you know it's gonna be on there
because first couple steps that the horse does it's gonna get sand and
debris on it just look very so make sure it's done just before you step into the
ring love the saddle pad nice and clean that's a good point and then yes all
ready to go so here's my comments on this love the way he looks he looks in
great shape beautiful shiny coat of how you groomed him and brought the shine
out of this coat also include in your grooming routine
into the ring' get the stable rubber or dish cloth & wipe the dirt
down before you step into the horse show ring' also your boots & put the rim put oil on
your horses up just before you step into the horse show ring' the
make sure you do is when you put the saddle pad on have an even two inch or
even placement of the saddle pad all around you can see that at the front
there's a little bit more than the back push the saddle pad up into the gullet
into the channel of the saddle so that the air can get down and around the
horse's spine also to complete the picture, you did a great job
trimming his bridle path so just I would trim or just even with scissors
cut the hair off his fetlocks just a little bit too okay so
when you look at this bridle the thing that I notice right away and I noticed
it on the thumbnail picture is that the nose fan is too low we would like to
have the nose band this far below of the protruding cheek bone on the horse's
face right now it's too low and if you look at it right there you can
see that when you would use your reins there's a chance that the bit may pinch
the lips of the horse the corner of the horse's mouth the lips of the
horse make it pinched between the bit so raise your nose band up to just below
the protruding cheekbone the cheekbone on the side of the horse's face so that
there's no way there could be any pinching it also helps to show your
horse's face off a little nicer and do the noseband up so that doesn't flop
when the horse chews so you should be enough that you can get one finger
underneath the nose band at the front and that will help make the picture a
little cleaner so that it's not flopping up and down when you're trotting and
cantering in the ring love that lovely bridle here's a great picture you can
see that he's really lovely lovely bridle she's got a recent nose band up
gonna put the saddle pad up into this thing love the stirrups I like to
know how many people use those stirrups I see they're quite popular now and you
can see the tail before she even gets into the horse show ring the tail has already
started to come out there's before
and there's after here's a great picture of that bridle you can see okay I'm not
gonna lie that was a lot of work I had no idea how much work it would be to
braid his main braid his tail and just make him look the best that I possibly
could using what I have at home I didn't go out and buy anything this was just
stuff that I had at home and I figured let's give it a go and see how
presentable I can make Ethan for a horse show ring now granite he'll be in better
shape next year but I think it's really fun to test things out really like a
dress rehearsal and see what happens you never know if you don't try right
and Laura thank you so much for the collaboration this is gonna be really
fun hopefully it goes really well and hopefully people will see how much work
it is in getting a horse ready for a show so for Laura's audience and Laura
bye great job though thank you so much Lisa I really appreciate it and send us
another video of when you do get to the horse show ring and then I'd like to
know how your horse looks when you go into the horse show ring next year when
you go to the horse show thank you Lisa and Lisa really it does take a lot of
work it does take a lot of time and a lot of work to get your horse ready for
the horse show maybe you could think about giving them a bath never
even thought of that so this is another thing that you could include in your
horse show routine is giving them a bath so that you have that beautiful shiny coat
all the way throughout so thank you Lisa now go use this stuff - go hug your horse
go use this stuff my name is Laura and hey do you have a before and after
picture of your horse I'd love to see it send me an email
thistle Ridge at hotmail.com thanks now bye