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A couple that I recently learned.
1. Soaking the stained/yellowed/dirty mane and tail of a palomino (or other color with flaxen mane) with vinegar will brighten it. I did try this and it did help.
2. Applying baby powder to a white sock or stocking prior to showing will make them appear extra white.
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| Make sure they are clipped good. Legs, ears, nose, eyes, bridle path. You can use Vaseline to shine up there nose and around eyes. Use hoof black on dark hooves, clear polish on white. Depending on mane length you can band it...but just make sure it lays down nice...use some mousse/gel hair spray. You can use baby powder or cornstarch for white legs or they make a horse leg chalk, it's less messy and cheap. If you're leading it in the ring, I'd use a show halter with some silver...if you don't have one you can use a nice, clean leather halter or even a new nylon/rope one. Just make sure it fits properly and is pulled up on the nose or it'll make their head look bad. Also, if you're leading in practice walk and trotting next to you and setting their feet up. Manners in the sale ring are a plus. If you're riding one in, just make sure all your tack is clean. The theme is CLEAN and SHARP...you and the horse. |
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Location: Way up North | Feed them up and have them fit. Nothing sells a horse better than having them in good flesh and looking healthy |
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| To get the wavy tail effect, do you do one big braid or several smaller ones? |
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| AllAroundRider - 2016-06-20 11:28 AM
Feed them up and have them fit. Nothing sells a horse better than having them in good flesh and looking healthy
I agree with having them fit and even a little on the chubby side. Hair coat is important too so if you are going to a winter sale I recommend looking into light schedules and such to keep them from growing a bunch of hair. |
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Location: Texas | Use Vetrolin shine spray right after a bath. It makes them shine and oh so soft. Also, use aerosol fly spray. Other fly sprays will collect dust on your horse. Use hair spray to keep the fly away hairs on the tail, forelock, and mane tamed.
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Location: Texas! | We sale fit cutting yearlings at the ranch I work at. They are trotted on a hot walker 5/6 times a week 20 mins each way and groomed daily. As for at the same it's a whole ordeal to shine them up and make them really shine but the fitting really makes a world of difference. We try to take a picture when they come in from the pasture and after and its night and day.
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| scwebster - 2016-06-20 10:40 AM
To get the wavy tail effect, do you do one big braid or several smaller ones?
I wouldn't do the wavy tail. That's a 90's trend. Just wash it and brush it out good. Put some Laser Sheen in it to add shine. |
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Location: Deep South | WYOracer - 2016-06-20 9:51 PM
We sale fit cutting yearlings at the ranch I work at. They are trotted on a hot walker 5/6 times a day 20 mins each way and groomed daily. As for at the same it's a whole ordeal to shine them up and make them really shine but the fitting really makes a world of difference. We try to take a picture when they come in from the pasture and after and its night and day.
Wow, so your yearlings are getting about 4 hours of trotting time on the walker each day?
I always wondered how those sale yearlings looked so fit, but it's because they certainly are! lol! |
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| BamaCanChaser - 2016-06-21 9:05 AM WYOracer - 2016-06-20 9:51 PM We sale fit cutting yearlings at the ranch I work at. They are trotted on a hot walker 5/6 times a day 20 mins each way and groomed daily. As for at the same it's a whole ordeal to shine them up and make them really shine but the fitting really makes a world of difference. We try to take a picture when they come in from the pasture and after and its night and day. Wow, so your yearlings are getting about 4 hours of trotting time on the walker each day? I always wondered how those sale yearlings looked so fit, but it's because they certainly are! lol!
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Oh the tricks of the trade lol I'm so glad I don't sell anymore. I'm perfectly happy with Two forever ponies.
I agree on making them fit and physically appear more flattering.
1. Wavy tails are a 90s trend
2. We try and keep the bridle path down to an inch or inch and a half
3. Laser sheen on the white markings, tail and mane
4. If it's a thicker mane we pull it to make it lay flat
5. Trim the ears, muzzle and fetlocks (Do this a week ahead of time in case you mess up so it has time to grow out.) Trim with scissors CAREFULLY the day of if they need a touch up.
6. Fresh set of shoes/trim at least a week before to make sure they don't get sore feet from shoeing and appear lame in the arena
7. If we used different tack than our everyday tack we tried to start using it a week before the sale to make sure nothing was going to break, fit improperly, and to make sure the horse was going to work the same in the new tack.
8. Buy a new blanket to throw over your old pad or blanket they are used to so everything appears new without the price tag. We also would clean our tack if we used our every day tack before the sale so it didn't distract from the horse.
9. If selling with a halter only, make sure the poor horse has a fitted halter. Spend the extra hundred so you can get an extra thousand. When the halter fits correctly, the head looks prettier and more attractive
10. If we had a horse with a black mane and tail that had red ends or was sunbleached we actually dyed it to make it more black, then trimmed the hair a week before the sale so it had time to grow out and look more natural.
(DO NOT use dyes with amonia, or sulphate, or any other harsh chemicals that will burn your horse, you or the hair. There is actually a brand of dye you can buy that is specifically for horse hair with no chemicals at all.)
Also, if you're going to trim the tail, have a person put their arm horizontally under the base of the horses tail to lift it up a bit. Make sure their arm is resting on the horse, under the tail base. Cut the tail right at the fetlock. Not to long, not too short. and looks professional when trimmed. 
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Location: Texas! | BamaCanChaser - 2016-06-21 8:05 AM
WYOracer - 2016-06-20 9:51 PM
We sale fit cutting yearlings at the ranch I work at. They are trotted on a hot walker 5/6 times a day 20 mins each way and groomed daily. As for at the same it's a whole ordeal to shine them up and make them really shine but the fitting really makes a world of difference. We try to take a picture when they come in from the pasture and after and its night and day.
Wow, so your yearlings are getting about 4 hours of trotting time on the walker each day?
I always wondered how those sale yearlings looked so fit, but it's because they certainly are! lol!
No only twenty minutes each way per day 5/6 days a week. Lol sorry not per day! |
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