Clipping a Horse

When clipping a horse, use a size 10 blade to clip the muzzle, the whiskers, along the jaw, where the bridle goes, and along the coronet band. Give a horse a clean leg outline by clipping the fetlock with advice from an equestrian team head coach in this video on horse care.

Clipping your horse is a great way to keep it looking clean and tidy, and a necessary thing if you're going to be horse showing. When clipping your horse, you want to make sure you clip the muzzle, get their whiskers, clip along their jaw, to make sure there aren't any long hairs sticking down. Clip about an inch where the bridle goes, and you can also, depending on the time of year, clip their ears, and you're going to want to clip along the coronet band. Now, to begin with, you want to make sure your horse is clean and dry, otherwise you can clog the clippers, and I'm going to use a size 10 blade, which is the most commonly used size blade. You can use a closer cutting blade on the muzzle, like a size 40, but I wouldn't recommend that, if you're a first time clipper, and you wouldn't want to use that size blade, anywhere else on your horse's body, so I'm going to make this go flat against her, and I'm going to go in an upward motion. You can see she wants to eat the clippers. I'm going to do this all around her nose. Once that's done, I'm going to come down here, and just an upward motion again, work on cleaning up around the coronet band, so that her foot has a clean outline, and it's also good to get the fetlock, and to do that, you're going to work in all directions, along the point of her fetlock, to get this nice clean outline, of her leg.