First of all why has no one ever told me about the magic of natural bristle brushes…..I have used synthetic brushes, probably in a pink childs set from the age of 2 until now with my grown up KBF99 blue set. Now don’t get me wrong, they last years and years and well they haven’t died yet so maybe decades and they brush really well, clean up nicely and basically get mud off my horses. But the revelation of using natural bristle swooshy brushes is next level amazing!
I got this set for my birthday and put them straight in the lorry to be my competition grooming kit….Azid went lame, COVID happened, they’ve never been used 16months later. Qantas has some skin issues and I don’t want to use the same brushes on him and the others, I don’t actually know if it’s a thing to have separate grooming kits for your horses?, maybe I should have had more sets all along. But anyway rather than buy new brushes just for him I thought why not just use my fancy pants set.
I’m a firm believer in most areas of life that you shouldn’t save stuff for best but use the stuff that makes you feel good, does a great job and makes everything feel like ‘best’. So why I tucked my brushes away in the lorry I’m not sure. Anyway here’s a link to the new brushes. I’d love to know any hints or tips from people who have used them before.
And onto the rain! So what was going to be Q’s first ever competitive ride got cancelled. I love the Red Dragon Ride, going back to my home country, riding through the hills, it’s breathtaking, it’s unpredictable, it’s an adventure and it steals your soul. But it just wasn’t meant to be. Myself and my family had all taken time off work for the competition so instead decided to go mountain biking together.
Red Dragon is renowned for it’s unpredictable and stereotypically welsh weather (rain) and the forecast didn’t disappoint, it poured down and it blew a gail. So instead of getting wet and cold crewing and riding we got wet and cold biking instead and actually I enjoyed every second!
Beth Endurance 