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Checklist for Getting Organized
Our to do list reads something like this:
* Put steel shoes on the horses to give their feet a break. Our
farrier is thrilled when we put on steel for the two months off.
* Clean out the tack trunk—take everything out and vacuum out
all the hay and dust. This is a daughter project with my inspecting.
* Check all the tack cleaning supplies and make sure we have
sponges, soaps and oils.
* Check the show clothes—what fits and does not, what needs
cleaning, mending, or selling at the used tack store. (My daughter
does this from the angle of starting her list of what to buy at her
favorite stores at the shows.)
*Check the reins, martingale, bridle and other tack for any tears,
weak spots or repairs needed. Check the girth and clean it well.
* Get the boots professionally cleaned and make sure there is a
supply of good black shoe polish in the trunk.
* Wash all the show collars. We keep ours in a plastic box in the
trunk. Twice a year I wash all of them.
* Toss the hairnets and replace them with four new ones.
* Wash all the show pads, check for wear and cross your fingers
that a whole new style will not be in.
* Wash all of the polo wraps, shipping bandages, and leg boots.
Clean the leather ones.
* Order feed, supplements, and any other supplies needed for
the immediate show. * Get a tune up on the golf cart and make sure that it is in working
order. Check the trailer that hauls the cart to make sure the
brakes and lights are working.
* If you drive your own truck and trailer, now is the time to have a
tune up. Check out the tires and brakes on both and get a tune
up for the truck. Wash and wax both. We strip out the inside,
hose it down and scrub the sides with a brush. We usually have
something broken and take a trip to our repair place. Last year we
had a window broken by our new horse.
One week before the show:
* Wash all the blankets, coolers, rain sheets, quarter sheets, and
stable sheets. (Ever ask yourself how one animal can have so
many coats???) * Take the wool coolers to the dry cleaners—
must remember to pick up.
* Check to make sure there are still spurs and functioning leathers,
a riding crop, and show helmet in the tack trunk present and clean.
(How many spurs can you lose in one year!)
* Wash out with a mild bleach solution all of the water buckets.
We use three per stall at a show and they get grimy by the end of
the year.
We start assembling our lists of what we are going to take. We
have a trailer list and a horse/rider list. (Our first trip of last
season, we forgot the saddle and were 7 hours a way from home.
It meant a call to Dad and a trip to friend who was coming down a
day later. Image how happy Dad was!)
All of this is done with great anticipation for another show year.
Oh - Don't forget the horses, the feed and comfortable chairs.
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