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I struggled with this for years, once owing four
white, or not white tails. I tried everything, including biz with bleach,
whitening shampoos, regular bleach, blueing, etc. Kathy Mayeda had a horse
at Camp Far West with the purest white tail I have ever seen....she said she
used quicksilver shampoo. I got some, and it does work to some degree, may
take several washings, but now I have a horse with a white tail, at least
temporarly.
Nasty Chancy, my endurance horse, had to submit to
major washing on Friday. Her whole supposed to be white head was covered
with dirt from tarweed. HEr head ended up white, but she was
awfully mad after the whole process. My 16 year old boarder talked my
daughter and I to going to a horse show yesterday. If I was going to
drive, and be there all day, I was going to ride! For a hoot, I picked the
more unlikely class, Western Pleasure. Out came the thrift store cowboy
booys, ancient show bit I found once, rockies pants and old cowboy hat, borrowed
everything else. Came away with a second in Western pleasure in my age
group, and believe it or not, we won the trail class. I was laughing my
head off, but Chancy was just great. My daughter took her trail horse and
potential endurance horse, and got second in hunter hack. It was fun, but
too darn hot! Oh well, maybe when these horses retire they can
have new careers as show horses!
Both horses were champs at Camp Far West the
weekend before. I took my friend on my green Anglo Arab, and we were just
going to do the LD for training. My daughter on her Arab mare.
Only about 11 miles out on the first loop, my daughter developed a severe
migraine headache, which her meds did not stop. I had to pony her out to
the paved road, leave all the horses with my friend, and bum a ride back to camp
with my daughter. This is just about our worst fear and nightmare.
We tend not to ever have problems with tack, or lame horses or getting bucked
off, we both get migraines. She had to sit on her horse for an hour while I
ponied her; but both horses were just steady as they could be with riders
passing! I got a ride back to the horses and ponied my daughters horse
out; took shortcut back to camp and pulled, but persuaded my friend to go on by
her self on the green mare and finish the ride, which she did. All horses
were fine at the finish, so you can't ask for more;l
Karen
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