Heavyweight Turnout Rugs

Here’s a truth that most horse owners find slightly uncomfortable: the horse standing in the field at 6°C, unclipped, with a thick native coat, is almost certainly warmer than you are in your gilet. Yet we reach for the heavyweight turnout rug anyway, because standing at a gate watching a horse shiver — even when … Read more

There’s a particular breed of morning — the kind that arrives in late November somewhere between Shropshire and Northumberland — where the field is a swamp, the rain is horizontal, and your horse is standing in it looking frankly affronted by the whole situation. This is exactly where a proper heavyweight turnout rug horse owner … Read more