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| Do most people wrap there horses legs while hauling ? With Cotton wrap and polo wraps? Advantages to wrapping there legs ?
I see lots of people that wrap and the lots that don't but all the people at the track do so was curious on other opinions thanks |
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| I don't. It's too hot in the summer! I do like to put 8 inches or so shavings down, and my sore footed horse gets Soft Rides.
In the winter I do like Back on Track stuff. |
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| I use to wrap religiously. Not anymore. Now we just bed the trailer fairly deep and use Soft Rides. Depending on the weather, we may use the MagnaCu wraps. Too many people have no idea what they are doing and end up wrap bowing I tendon. |
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Location: Louisiana | I had a very good vet say to wrap every time they step in the trailer. I haven't been lately just bc it's so dang HOT. But when it does cool off I'll go back to wrapping. I use no bows and standing bandages. Often, I'll wrap him before we head home and leave him wrapped til the next morning. |
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| It depends on how far the haul is. We always put my good horse in the front because it hauls the best, then if it's more than a hour haul, she gets her Professional Choice standing wraps on. She has old tendon/ligament injuries though, so we do all we can to keep swelling down on her. |
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| Martha Josey hired someone to wrap her horses legs about 20 years ago. That is her job. She starts wrapping several weeks before hauling to an important barrel race like Congress. I wrap if I am hauling any distance BUT it is critical that you wrap correctly. You also need to use NOBOWS. If you do not wrap correctly you are better off without wraps. By the way, Martha learned this from Bob Baffert. I think he keeps his horses wrapped all the time. It helps prevent suspensory injuries. |
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Location: Phoenix | I don't wrap. I don't see the need. |
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| streakysox - 2015-08-30 6:40 PM
Martha Josey hired someone to wrap her horses legs about 20 years ago. That is her job. She starts wrapping several weeks before hauling to an important barrel race like Congress. I wrap if I am hauling any distance BUT it is critical that you wrap correctly. You also need to use NOBOWS. If you do not wrap correctly you are better off without wraps. By the way, Martha learned this from Bob Baffert. I think he keeps his horses wrapped all the time. It helps prevent suspensory injuries.
When I went to her clinic, her leg wrapper did a demonstration with everyone. Good lord she makes it look so easy (I guess when you do it every day for 20 years, you get pretty dang good at it). Anytime my mare is stalled, she gets her legs wrapped for sure. |
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| FlyingHigh1454 - 2015-08-30 6:58 PM
streakysox - 2015-08-30 6:40 PM
Martha Josey hired someone to wrap her horses legs about 20 years ago. That is her job. She starts wrapping several weeks before hauling to an important barrel race like Congress. I wrap if I am hauling any distance BUT it is critical that you wrap correctly. You also need to use NOBOWS. If you do not wrap correctly you are better off without wraps. By the way, Martha learned this from Bob Baffert. I think he keeps his horses wrapped all the time. It helps prevent suspensory injuries.
When I went to her clinic, her leg wrapper did a demonstration with everyone. Good lord she makes it look so easy (I guess when you do it every day for 20 years, you get pretty dang good at it ). Anytime my mare is stalled, she gets her legs wrapped for sure.
Yep, Pam has been doing that a LONG time. I have a mare with some suspensory issues. That was very helpful to me. Over the years, Martha's h9rses have had very few leg issues. |
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| I am always worried that the wraps hold the heat in which is what we all don't want in the legs that why I can't decide if wrapping is good or not. |
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Location: west of East Texas | I don't wrap but I do use shipping boots. I worry about traffic issues that would cause them to hit themselves and I have two that back out like rocket ships and I don't want them banging themselves up. I also had one attack another, going under the divider but all she could rip into was the shipping boot. The shipping boots have saved me a lot of injuries. |
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Location: MD | I don't wrap in the trailer. They get bell boots on to haul, but that's it. I used to be a freak about wrapping for every haul, but then I started dating a Polo player and he laughed at me for wrapping. They cram a huge trailer full of some of the top polo ponies in the world and ship all over the country bare legged. I do wrap when they're stalled up at shows and the like as though their lives depend on it though. |
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| I don't wrap. Never have and never will. It creates too much heat buildup. I also think it can make tendons weak. With constant support of a wrap, how are they ever supposed to strengthen, naturally by themselves? I leased my horse to an NFR girl one summer and told her I do not wrap in the trailer while hauling. She asked why and I said because of the heat buildup. She said her thoughts were the exact same and she doesn't wrap either. On another note, I could see benefits of using the equiflexsleeves on horses that stock up. They seem to be a fairly light material, but still seem effective from what Ive seen. |
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Location: Kansas | No I don't wrap, but I probably will in the winter if I start hauling quite a bit. |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | I don't wrap, I feel like they can sometimes they can cause more problems than they can help. |
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Location: North Dakota | If you do wrap, don't use polos. Use standing bandages. I never have wrapped while trailering but would consider it if it was for a longer distance and in cooler weather. |
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| I never really have, however I recently have been considering it. My mare is a great hauler, and loads and unloads easy, but for some reason she just can't seem to back out without banging herself on the back of the trailer. I'm not terribly concerned with her hurting herself, as I have a bumper along the bottom, but I think wrapping her back legs might be a good idea. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Figure this one out... I wrap to haul & run 'em naked! 
Zipping up my flame retardant suit!!! LOL |
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | I don't wrap with bandages normally, unless needed, but I'll use my MagnaCu quick wraps or Fast Wraps every trailer ride. Remember copper has cooling agents!
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | WrapSnap - 2015-08-30 9:19 PM
I don't wrap in the trailer. They get bell boots on to haul, but that's it. I used to be a freak about wrapping for every haul, but then I started dating a Polo player and he laughed at me for wrapping. They cram a huge trailer full of some of the top polo ponies in the world and ship all over the country bare legged. I do wrap when they're stalled up at shows and the like as though their lives depend on it though.
BUT..... polo ponies, even the top ones, are treated like disposable livestock - not like a member of the family like so many of our barrel horses are. My husband played polo professionally for a number of years, and after seven years of watching me with my horses - he still wants to know why I "care so much." Lol. Polo player/groom ways of doing things are definitely NOT what I emulate when making care decisions about my horses.
I wrap from time to time, depending on the situation. If my horse is hauling alone, he only gets bells. If he is going in a trailer hauling with friends, he gets wrapped with normal standing wraps for no other reason than impact protection. If it is super duper cold, he gets Back On Track quick wraps.
He is rarely stalled (because he despises it), but on the rare occasion that he IS stalled, he will get wrapped because he is a notorious stocker-upper.
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