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Horizon Structures
USA
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 Posted - 06/05/2009 : 11:12:19 AM
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I'll go ahead and share my own! 
Must Haves:
- Show Sheen! Makes dust easy to towel off and manes and tails easy to pick out.
- Electrical tape. Tape boots (this may just be a saddle seat thing...) and gloves, fix pony harness if something breaks in the warmup, tape up tails... fixes almost everything.
- Shoe string. Again, this fixes almost everything tape can't fix. lol.
- Orvis shampoo and scrubby mitts or brushes for baths and to clean socks when they come back from the ring.
- Towels, towels, and more towels. Wipe off bit spit, quick polish for a riders' boots, dusting things (a cart, a horse, a tack trunk, etc.), dry a wet horse, wave it to get their ears up, cover your head with it as you run back to the barn in the rain, etc.! Always need towels.
- Mints! haha.
For packing... the barn I ride at pretty much has it down to a science. lol. We usually take anywhere from 3 to 15 head. We have several main trunks for the small-ish stuff:
- one for sheets and coolers
- one for hardware (nails, fence staples, hammers, screwdrivers, extension cords, lights, radio, etc.)
- one for grooming stuff (spools of braiding ribbon, extra show sheen, fly spray, shampoo, tack soap, liniment, etc.)
- one for miscellaneous tack (leg wraps, martingales, reins) and little stuff that has to come from home and doesn't stay in the trailer all the time
- one for all the western saddle pads and blankets and gel pads
- one for all the stall curtains and valances
As for tips for packing... I think just doing it makes you work out your own system. But having "a place for everything and everything in its place" will definitely make it easier!
Also, we do pretty much everything at shows, except clipping. Cleaning tack and washing horses gets done at the show.
- Nicole -
www.HorizonStructures.com
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