Braiding for dressage

Very nice! Your 7 are bigger than my 7.

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I have been around for a long time and have not know of that tradition.

No idea where it came from, but I first heard about it around 10 years ago when Tina Konyot was showing Calecto in the World Cup qualifiers unbraided.

There are some horses that will not allow their forelocks to be braided. Maybe that’s how it started, and then it caught on as fashion. :confused:

Also, biters. :lol:

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My guy’s forelock is almost non-existent. It was a challenge to do something with it. Not enough hair to braid, yet enough to look sloppy unbraided. I just sort of rubber-banded it to tidy it up and hoped for the best. I guess from far it will pass. :smiley:

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I learned on the COTH forums that that’s how you braid foals for inspection, basically just ball up their fuzzy little manes.
Cupid has the opposite problem, a very long and thick forelock. I have a hard time braiding it to look tidy and not like a massive bulge on his head :lol: