This thread has definitely convinced me to try out a couple Haas brushes! I also ride a fluffy ISH with cushings, so I’ve been looking for how best to get him clean after our rides, especially now that he’s put on his winter coat. Thank goodness he’s clipped at the moment!
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These brushes really do help with that. It’s not just the quantity - presumably using 5 different brushes to groom will make any horse cleaner lol. But when Haas says certain brushes are designed to bring dirt up to the surface and others are designed to remove that loosened dirt, they aren’t kidding! I think that’s why they tell you to use them in a specific order.
It doesn’t completely get rid of that fine dust layer that dried crusty mud turns into, but it gets rid of A LOT of it.
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As a participant in this thread, you are morally obligated to provide photos of your fluffy ISH.
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@BigMama1 What a beauty! I thought of this thread yesterday while using my Diva and to come on and say how much we love it too. What keeps me shaking my head is how it took 50 yrs for me to get my brush act together. Let’s save others - the youngsters! And the horses!
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Right now one of my lesson horses has the MOST SENSITIVE SKIN of any horse I have ever groomed in 50 years. He is an Appendix QH gelding (not a mare!) in his 20s, and he is a chestnut. I thought that only chestnut TB mares were super sensitive, but this aged QH gelding sure has every other horse I’ve handled (including my chestnut Anglo-Arab gelding) beat in the sensitivity department.
I am considering buying him some more Haas brushes for when I groom him. I already have the Haas Dive (love), the Haas Micro Diva (he LOVES it on his head), and the Small Diamond Noir Soft horse hair brush, which he also likes–somewhat, as in we only used it twice and he does not act like we are torturing him.
Which other Haas brushes would you all recommend for this super, super, super sensitive skinned horse? He lives outside 24/7/365 and wears a turnout blanket in the winter.
Right now we really cannot get him CLEAN, when we lean on him with regular brushes he quickly informs us that we are simply torturing him when we try for a deep clean (he gets restive and starts shifting and prancing around in the cross ties in the wash stall, giving us dirty looks and little tiny threat movements with his head and legs.) This horse is a GOOD BOY, trustworthy with beginners on his back and excellent for introducing the canter, so far no spooks or starts or any great fear episodes.
But a good, thorough grooming with regular brushes makes him act like he is a crazy unbroke horse, so he never gets a REAL thorough grooming. At best he allows us to get some dust out of his coat and maybe some mud off if we are very gentle with the brushes, then he acts like the good horse he is.
I want to get this horse CLEAN when I groom him so my saddle pad does not get as dirty. Besides he is a really red chestnut and I want to see his coat when it is shiny!
Please help me with suggestions for the best Haas brushes for this supreme diva of a horse!
Have you tried hot towelling?
No I have not tried hot towelling.
He is not my horse, it is not my stable, and while my riding teacher is open to many new things it gets to be a hurry to get him groomed for my lessons since I ride him as early in the morning as she will let me.
If it was my barn I would try this and I will suggest it to my riding teacher, she might find it useful for when they take him to horse shows.
I would hot towel him. It doesn’t really take very long. Not as long as trying to brush a horse that is prancing around. So long as you have access to hot water in the barn.
Haas brushes will save the world!!!
And thanks for the compliment about my horse. He’s a lovely sweet, super schoolmaster. I’ve been leasing him for the past year and the opportunity to buy him arose last week. So I did!
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I would go with the Parcour and the Grundy.
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That is wonderful! What a dream come true!
What were the two brushes that you used? What ones did you get?
Are the brushes in the set only identified by number? Or do they also have names? How many brushes in a set?
They have names, I just can’t remember them, so I used a sharpie to number them in order. I got this set, which is 5 brushes plus a curry comb. https://eqclusive.com/products/haas-black-short-hair-horse-pack
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Right now one of my lesson horses has the MOST SENSITIVE SKIN of any horse I have ever groomed in 50 years. He is an Appendix QH gelding (not a mare!) in his 20s, and he is a chestnut. I thought that only chestnut TB mares were super sensitive, but this aged QH gelding sure has every other horse I’ve handled (including my chestnut Anglo-Arab gelding) beat in the sensitivity department.
Oohh, how timely–just had my young horse shipped to me–turns out that she’s thin-skinned and sensitive–regular stiff brushes aren’t going to cut it.
Haas’s Grundy’s Finest brush is soft (beautifully soft!) but still does a good job of pulling dust and fine dirt out of the coat.
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Congratulations on your purchase! Of the horse, not the brushes 
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Yes, another vote for the Parcour here! It strikes me as being a great all-around brush that will probably suit most horses and most situations.
… but… but… but… what about ANOTHER one 
My mare has a thick dark coat and I can still see that there’s scurf in there when I take a really close look between the hairs. I’m not sure what will bring that out, if it’s even possible to?
[For reference, I currently have the Horsehair/Brass Mix, Parcour, and Cavaliere (as well as the hard curry comb).]
Yes, I know it is my fault for doing so, but you all are sort of a “corrupting influence” as far as buying new horse stuff, this is just the latest.
Today I ordered 10 Haas brushes/curry combs, from two on-line sites, almost 200 USD, my Christmas present to myself. I just hope that the ultra sensitive thin skinned Appendix QH gelding who is my lesson horse enjoys being groomed with some of the softer ones. I will gradually try the stiffer ones on him if he ever grows a winter coat, but yesterday he looked like he still had a summer coat on. (He wears a blanket, out 24-7-365.)
This set is for ME!!! I will show them to the two ladies I ride with and ask if they want some. One stable already specified brushes for small hands and a mildly arthritic older lady (hey, I’m an older lady too). Those I will order them later, children sized Haas brushes with hand loops are available, but most of those are with synthetic bristles (except for the micro-Diva). Luckily for us both of her horses LOVE being groomed, LOVE the HandsOn grooming gloves, so I don’t have to get many additional super soft brushes.
My riding teacher’s personal riding horse is a black Arabian gelding with super, super sensitive skin. She has been trying for around 6-7 years to find him a curry comb he can stand. I am sure if he learned to enjoy being groomed he would start off rides in a calmer frame of mind (“spirited” and super sensitive.) This horse thinks that the HandsOn grooming gloves are instruments of torture, as well as most curry combs. Every once in a while I find new type curry comb, I buy it, lend it to my riding teacher, and if her super sensitive horse sort of accepts it I give it to him (the horse.)
Maybe some Haas brushes can help even him.
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