How to Make Your Horse's Tail

Fuller with False Tails

We’re going to make the natural tail fuller

by putting in what Champion Tail has

produced as a triple tail. They have false

tails that come in various thicknesses,

small, medium, large, double, triple, really,

whatever size you want, you can get.

This is how we put a triple tail in. Grab a

reasonable amount of tail and a nice tight

plait. Make sure it’s tight because especially

with a triple tail with more weight in it, you

want it very tight. Plait down about four

inches. It's best to do all this plaiting when

you're doing the manes, so it’s all done at

once. You plait their mane, you put the plait

in their tail and you can just come along

afterwards and slip your tail in.

Use two rubber bands. Make sure your

bands are on very tight. I have broken a

band so I might just put one over the top,

just to make sure it holds. It is very

important that plait holds. If you are worried

in their tail and you can just come along

afterwards and slip your tail in.

Use two rubber bands. Make sure your

bands are on very tight. I have broken a

band so I might just put one over the top,

just to make sure it holds. It is very

important that plait holds. If you are worried

about, you can stitch them in but I don't find

it necessary except for turn out classes and

events.

Get your false tail. The triple is a very large

tail and I get my little latch hook out. A latch

hook has a hook at the end of it. I keep

mine on a string because I keep on losing

them. You go up right to the bottom of your

plait, right to the base against the dock.

Push the latch hook up, hook it on the end,

close your latch down. Make a loop in your

plait, go back through, pull a bit of your

plait up and pull your tail down and that's it

in. Brush the tail out. Make sure there are

no knots in it.

You get a pair of scissors and you cut it off.

You grab your hair down, make your hair

nice and flat and go right to the end of the

tail. As this is a new false tail, make sure

where you are cutting it off. I quite often,

with a new one, just allow a little bit.

Because this is so thick, I do cut it off in two

to three layers to get the initial cut and then

brush it again.

That’s the Champion Tails, triple thickness

false tail. They come in every color and you

use the color selector. I chose one which

has triple thickness and you can see the

difference, especially when the horse walks

away. You can see the difference in the tail.

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