Grooming to win: how to groom, trim, braid, and prepare your horse for show spiral bound

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352 p. · 23.6x17.2 cm · Paperback
The Classic Equestrian Grooming Guide, now Completely Udated

Grooming to Win: How to Groom, Trim, Braid, and Prepare Your Horse for Show is the definitive book on grooming your horse to catch the judge's eye. Extensively revised to reflect today's practices, the Third Edition features over 400 detailed, two color line drawings that illustrate every aspect of grooming. A practical, hands on reference, it:

  • Brings all information in line with current practices and requirements

  • Covers conditioning, daily care, tools and supplies, and grooming for shows

  • Features new chapters on blanketing, newly popular breeds, and the latest show ring clothing styles

  • Covers all disciplines

  • Includes trimming styles by type and event as well as by breed

The spiral binding lays flat so it's easy for you to follow along step by step. Complete with helpful lists and checklists, this is the must have reference for anyone who grooms horses for show.

FOREWORD.

PREFACE.

1 Horse Management: Conditioning to Win.

2 Skin and Hair Care.

3 Grooming and Daily Care.

4 Grooming Tools and Supplies.

5 Mane and Tail Care.

6 Bathing, Bandaging, and Other Procedures.

7 Trimming and Clipping.

8 Blankets and Horse Clothing.

9 Final Touches.

10 The Show Hunter.

11 Sport Horses: Turnout for Dressage, Show Jumping, Eventing and Driving.

12 The Western Show Horse.

13 The Pleasure and Versatility Breeds.

14 Other Breeds.

15 The Saddlebred,Walking Horse, Parade Horse and Other Set Tail Horses.

16 Grooming at Horse Shows.

APPENDIX I: Trimming Styles by Type And Event.

APPENDIX II: Trimming Styles by Breed.

INDEX.