There’s nothing that says “horse person” quite as much as the sensation of a buzzing clipper in your hand for two hours straight, wearing a rain coat and rain pants inside the barn, and sneezing horse hair out of your nose for days. Yep, it must be clipping season. I want to see your amazing, entertaining, beautiful and clever clipping creations. Send me a picture that shows off your artistry and a little blurb explaining what it’s all about. Include the name of your horse, your name and where you are from. Email [email protected]!
Helen Guidotti: “Mystical Creek, my dear friend Kathy Stern’s 10-year-old Canadian Thoroughbred, needed a clip job. I was envisioning a creek coming around his hind end, a full moon, trees, sailboats — the works. I tried …”
Helen Guidotti (part II): “I got it all in there, but decided to do something different on the other side. He wears it well with pride! Go Eventing Nation!”
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Lara Knight: “In honor of her father’s company Painter Ready, we did the dripping paint clip on Faith New’s horse, Teddy.”
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Erin Critz: “Booty art is the highlight of my fall and winter. I have been known to start pondering what to put on my pony’s bum in mid-September. This year I gave myself a pretty intense challenge — a Chinese dragon! Overall, I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. I’m hoping it radiates so much awesome that we get bonus booty-art points on our dressage test.”
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Megan Burke: “This is a photo of my 19-year-old event horse All That Jazz. I decided to clip music notes on him because he is named after the song “And All That Jazz.” The three notes are each note of the words “all that jazz” from the sheet music.”
