If you are showing fairs, i wouldnt bother doing full body clips. I do a couple fairs around here for fun and its all a very much 'quarter horse' type enviroment. Actually, last year the horses i took to our fair i had body clipped from a previous show and everyone was rubbing them all week and feeling them. I, unless of course you want to, wouldnt do a full body clip on all the horses on my show string just for the fair. I am taking 6 (yes that is right 6, new record for me lol) to our fair and i am only doing two body clips, one on Nark bc he has pig hairs and one on baby Steaker.
You will find at the fairs, most (if not all) the other minis prob wont be body clipped. I go to 4 fairs around my county, and so far this year and last and the year before that, mine have been the only ones body clipped.
Generally if its cooler, i do throw a winter blanket on my ones that get cold easily if they are body clipped ..such as in the morning when its chilly. I show two white horses on my show string and neither of them have been pink yet, i clip w/ #15 blades 5-7 days pre-show as well, normally 5. They also go out for 12 hrs a day on drylot and are up at night so no real issue.
Guess i am just trying to say, if you can get around body clipping take advantage of it. Now yes, it is important to present the horses nicely but i've found most fairs i go to, everything is done more in the Quarter Horse way as far as presentation goes
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