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Linda Eskin's Horse Show Tips

Here are a couple of things I learned during one of my rare appearances in a horse show:

- Hang a net/bag/box up high on your trailer (or on the roof of your truck) for things like a soft brush, a damp and a dry rag, and your bottle of water/Snapple/etc. then you don't have to get off your horse to reach them, and you can use the brush to dust off your boots after you're on your horse. I didn't have a "groom" at that show, and had dusty boots the whole time. I'd get on, but then I couldn't reach a rag to wipe them off.

- Put a big rubber tub in the back of your pickup with hay in it, then you can let your horse eat during breaks, but (unlike a hay net on the trailer) it's not right there in the way all day, and you don't lose hay all over the ground. Besides, I don't want my animals eating off the ground in somebody else's pasture/field - who knows what they'd pick up.

- Watch out for ants! We're starting to get fire ants here. I don't think they were the problem, but at one point when I was about to get on Sabrina she starting having a kicking fit. More like a picking-up-her-back-legs-and-shaking-them fit. I went and rubbed all up and down her legs with my hands, then she was fine. I didn't see anything on her. I think there may have just been one ant or something, and she had a major case of the willies from it. But I'll sure looks out for anthills from now on!

Have fun!

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