[QUOTE=Kyzteke;5831837]
What about making & applying spider wraps? Few people even know what they were now…[/QUOTE]
I know what they are and how to use them. :lol:
I’ve used all of these except for pink lotion! I was last in a race wing in 2006 for reference, though the trainer I was with was very “old school.” Our “blister” was Ball solution and I think betadine, I never actually mixed it I just know we cut it with something. OMG, tuttles! Never forget the day the trainer’s daughter wanted me to put our “full strength” tuttles brace on a 2y/o… poor thing was climbing out of his skin! Love me some blue lotion, used it on myself when my back was really wonky:lol:! We also packed feet in “mud” after hard training sessions and hoof greased everyone everyday.
[QUOTE=kookicat;5836871]
I know what they are and how to use them. :lol:[/QUOTE]
Lol, okay, I’ll bite, I don’t know what they are or how to use them! Anyone got an explanation/pictures/both?
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Lol, okay, I’ll bite, I don’t know what they are or how to use them! Anyone got an explanation/pictures/both?[/QUOTE]
All of these things are things I’m familiar with! Mercury blisters, nasty stuff. Love the smell of Bigeloil, and yes, we always thought of the poor, squashed beagles that went into it! 
Fourche Creek Leg Clay. Triple strength iodine scrubbed into arthritis joints with a brush. Scarlet oil. Purple Wound Lotion. And every old barn manager or trainer had his secret formula for a blue leg paint or pink leg paint or some color leg paint!
I don’t think it was possible to use some of the without either smelling like them afterwards and/or wearing them on your body/clothing — I challenge anyone to use that purple wound lotion without wearing it!
white lotion.
which is lead and zinc.
ugh
Boy most of the things mentioned here (well, other than Asmador sp?) I still use. I prefer Bigeloil to Absorbine, although I do like the new gels.
Remember Bell Drops (or was it elixer?) Iodine on everything, sweats made with glycerine and furacine, body washes with Bigeloil or Tuttles, later Vetrolin, iodine shampoo for skin fungus.
Everyone iced horses (and probably still do) even if it was for arthritic conditions. We used to use warm water whirlpool tubs with epsom salts mixed in to maintain the old warriors. Worked better in the long run than just soaking them in an ice tub.
How about the really stupid crap people used to try to do as well? One guy insisted his horse was “tight” in the skin across his shoulders, and that was why he wasn’t reaching (he was actually climbing and was coming back run down behind). Instead of trying to diagnose and treat what was hurting, he took an old bicycle pump, fitted it with a big gauge needle and was pumping air in under the skin.
Oy vay…
It, um, didn’t work, by the way…
I always used furacin and dmso and epsom salts. Or dmso and cortisone. I actually blistered the hell out of my own elbow painting it with dmso and cortisone after I thought the chip in it had set and healed. It apparently still had too much heat in it and I did a number on myself, but the elbow came back nice and tight and I’m still pretty sound on it, but after 4 breaks in a year there is some nerve damage. Still love me some green jelly massages on anything, 2 legged or 4!
Brass scrapers anyone??
Hot water, pine oil and some burlap to get horses clean in the winter
This is going way back before my time, but the old guys I came up under would talk about grooms carrying “Doc Green”. They would keep patches of KY bluegrass sod alive in tubs. Supposed to pick up horses that were kind of punky.
Anybody else think that shockwaving never can set bucked shins the way pinfiring did? I know it doesn’t leave the unsightly marks, and is waaaay more humane, but I never found that it was as effective
[QUOTE=NancyM;5836858]
Mercury blisters.[/QUOTE]
You had to use it with Almond Oil though…
Strapping after a workout with a freshly made hay wisp. “We was tired, but 'appy!” :lol:
Me, too. I was horrified when my boss told me to “go get the bottle of beagle oil out of the tackroom”. :eek:
How about:
*Standing bandages tied on (pre-Velcro) then adhesive taped in place.
Nah–flannel with pins. And walking around with pins in the knees of my jeans well before punk.
Yeah, I remember this! And Bowie clay…and people still use spiders? Wow…walk down memory lane, racetrack-wise…
If memory serves me right, the bandages with the ties were cold water wraps. I used these on my ponies without knowing they were not really standing bandages!
No, “spiders” were used before the advent of vet wrap for standing bandages. They were a way of wrapping the knee area that allowed for some bend so the horse could lie down.
Never saw them used wet.
This thread really takes me back. I would LOVE to shadow a good race track groom and really wish someone would make some videos concerning the grooming that takes place at the tracks or higher end show barns. Grooms are the best.
When I was a kid for the longest time I though they were tellng me to use “Beagle Oil”
LOL! Me too and I still love the smell.
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If memory serves me right, the bandages with the ties were cold water wraps. I used these on my ponies without knowing they were not really standing bandages![/QUOTE]
Cold water bandages had two ties that got tied together, you are correct. A spider has eight, hence the name. Although after the invention of velcro cold water bandages lost the ties.
How about the glass jar…. So you could collect the amount of dust your curry comb managed to accumulate during “the process” in order to satisfy your instructor.
I pay homage to my Electro Groom these days 
