When brushing a horse, always start with a rubber curry that has teeth and can pull hair out of the horse. Work towards the back of a horse while brushing out dead hair with helpful advice from a reining horse trainer in this video on horse brushing and grooming.
Now I'm going to get him cleaned up, I'm going to ask my wife Lynn to help me. This is her area of expertise, she is spectacular taking care of a horse. So the two of us will show you how to start getting your horse brushed down. Now we'll always start with a rubber curry that has got some teeth in it. Something that will actually pull the hair out of a horse. Let me show you what that looks like. We have got a couple of different versions, this simple little thing right here actually is I would rub the horse, it will pull his hair out, any dead hair. Especially if they are just in the spring shedding, you want to get that hair off of them. But even in the middle of the summer, when it would seem like your horse has no hair, you can still get hair off of him. And it is very, very important to do that, that's what is going to cause him to shine. Now you can take as long in this process as you want to, but I recommend that you take a pretty good bit of time, and really spend time with your horse and rub him down good. Lynn let's go ahead and get him rubbed down. Now we always start at the front and work our way to the back, notice Lynn is working on his head. That is often an area that is missed when you are cleaning up a horse. Most people go for the neck, the body, the hip and all that. All the stuff that is easy to reach. But a horse's head can get really dirty, and also grows hair just like the rest of his body does. So he is going to shed on his head too. So we are going to take and really rub that down, and notice I am going in a circular motion on this horse. Now I don't know if you can see it, but there is hair coming off, and he is pretty slick. But I just keep going in all these little circles, all over his body, all the way down his legs. And just do his whole body, so that I can get as much hair off of him as possible. Now that is obviously going to make him shine as well. We are basically polishing our horse, and they really like the way it feels too. It is just kind of like a massage for them. So we're going to get him rubbed down real good with this curry, then Lynn is going to follow me up with a nice soft brush. And that soft brush is going to take all those little lines out, for one thing that I created with this rubber curry. It is also going to smooth his hair back down. And now we're dusting him, basically. This really didn't pull the dirt out, it pulled the hair out. That brush that she is using is now getting the dirt off of him. So we're going to make sure he is polished up really good.
