On 2/12/07, Janice McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tell us how to "ring the tail" steph.
Ringing the tail is popular with the 5 gaited crowd and the parade classes. Fully brush the tail and pick any knots out. Wash and condition well, let dry to just damp. You can use styling gel (I did, and the tail was *quite* curly the entire night!), if you do use it sparingly. Take a small section, about 1/4" and tie a half knot in it up at the top of the hair, next to the bone. Keep tying loose half knots in it down to the end. Repeat until the entire tail is done. It took me 2 hours to put her tail up and 30 minutes to take it down, but wowey did it make her tail look full (it was skimpy, and I thought about begging a fake tail, but she's two tone and it just would have been alot of work for a local breed expo... Plus she's a TRAIL HORSE, trail horses can have wimpy tails, right?). Here's a link to us, you can kind of see her tail... http://gastongazette.mycapture.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?userphoto=0&image=13250221&thispage=1 Steph -- "Brutality begins where skill ends." "Correctly understood, work at the lunge line is indispensable for rider and horse from the very beginning through the highest levels." Von Niendorff
