This is a YouTube video titled "Limpiar al caballo antes de montar" created on June 5, 2012, providing a detailed instructional guide on how to properly wash and groom a horse before riding. The content features two speakers explaining the step-by-step process of cleaning the horse's hooves, brushing its body, mane, and tail, emphasizing care and patience during grooming.
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Welcome to Unimow. In the following video, we're going to explain how to wash your horse before riding it. The first thing you'll need to do is take it out of the stable and put it somewhere where you can wash it. Let's start by washing the hooves. In this case, we're not going to grease it. As we do that a couple of times a week, we're only going to remove any remaining dirt that has gotten inside before going out to the track or the mountains. In this case, we're going to lift the horse's hands, stand right next to it and motion for it to lift its leg. We'll use the hoof pick to get the dirt out. We'll get the dirt out well and remove all the residue. Now we're going to do the same with the hind leg. We place it here, slowly hold the leg with our leg and use the hoof pick to remove any remaining dirt that has gotten inside. We have to do the same for all four legs.
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Once we remove the dirt from all four legs with the hoof pick, we're going to brush the horse. This is very important to try to remove any dirt it may have, since later on, when we put the saddle on, we could end up with sores or chafing. So it's very important to try to remove any remaining dirt or sweat crusts from the previous time we rode it. To brush them, we're going to use two brushes. This one is stronger and has harder bristles, and this one has softer bristles that is used to remove the rest of the dirt. We're going to scrape hard with this one.
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Don't worry, it doesn't hurt the horse. Do it carefully, of course, without making any sudden movements, but in circles to remove any remaining dirt, hair, straw, etc. It's good to do this all over the body.
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Feel the part of the rump below the girth area, the chest.
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Little by little, the entire area of the horse. We will scrape everything very well. Once we have scraped the entire horse on both sides with a thicker brush, we will go over with the softer brush. With this brush, we will go in the direction of the hair, removing all traces of dirt.
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Always in the direction of the hair. We will also do the legs with this brush, the part of the chest and the inner area.
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And if we want, we can also carefully do a little bit of the face.
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We approach the horse carefully and little by little we see how he lets us.
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Don't make any sudden movements here, the horse could get scared. You have to be more patient here with the face. We will do this on both sides. Obviously, you can also use these two brushes to brush the mane, but also to do the tail and the mane. If you don't do it very often, knots will form on the horse and it will be quite difficult to brush it. Therefore, if you don't do it for a few days, eventually there will be knots. And as I said, it will be difficult. It's better to do it gradually. That way the horse will also be more aesthetically pleasing. Well, these are some tips that you should keep in mind before preparing the horse, putting on the reins and saddle, grooming the hooves and brushing the entire body well so that there is no dirt left. And finally, if you want, you can brush the mane and tail with the brush that I explained. And well, I hope you like these videos and that you continue visiting us. See you later. Thank you.
