People are using Fluff enough that now there has to be a rule against it? Who the heck thinks of these things? Why are riders thinking they get “extra” points for having a foamy mouth?
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WHAT??? People are seriously making fake foam?
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I first heard about this on Dressage Hub, but just assumed that it was her (DH) normal attacking of everything and it was made up. Do people really use this??
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They must use it enough for FEI to make a rule about it.
Scroll down to page 24.
Incredible. But I bet the horses love it…I wonder if a smear of Fluff was put on a bit somewhere as a way to coax a horse into taking the bit without adding weird colors to the mouth.
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It’s been a thing quietly for a long time. Apparently DH is now taking credit for the FEI banning it 
it has been around a long time. As has wrapping bits in fruit leather
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I wish that surprised me, but it doesn’t.
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Haha. I wrap bits in fruit leather for a green horse who ran backwards and reared the first time I tried to bridle her. Actually fruit rollup which are really just candy. Very effective for that purpose but doesn’t make foam and does make the drool red and yellow if anything.
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I always thought that a few sugar cubes would do a good enough job.
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yes! I reward with cubes every time I mount (requiring a stretch around too!). I hope the thin white foam that makes is not mistaken for “fluff”…
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How are they going to enforce this? Taste the foam coming out of the horses’ mouths at bit check?
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When you see it up close it’s pretty easy to tell - either when the horse opens his mouth, or when you part his lips.
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Hee hee I can see that scene. Like the LIfe commercial
I’m not going to try it, you try it. Lets get Mikey, he’ll eat anything
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It’s not the foam coming from their mouths that’s an issue - it’s the thick layer spread on the skin around the mouth and the bits, which apparently can make it harder for the judge to spit a horse with its tinge lifted, or poked out slightly, or blue.
Dressage has had a bit of public relations hiccups at the FEI level due to harsh riding like with the Blue Tongue incident. The dressage fans began to criticize the riding so the answer was to fake “desireable” lipstick with this stuff to make it look like the horses were correctly on the bit.
So I guess the powers that be decided to make using the stuff illegal.
It’s fine by me.
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jeez… people will do/try anything…
I like it under my rock where I had not even heard of doing this (making fake foam out of fluff, I have heard of giving treats along with the bit).
Seems like a very strange thing to do. How do they do this without making everything in the world sticky and white (until it becomes dirt covered)? Do they have horses that do not touch things once they are given their Fluff face?
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It is hard to fathom, isn’t it? Everything within a half mile radius, including me and the barn cat, would be covered from head to toe within seconds!
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