September 2002

Winter Turnouts: It’s All Fit

That may seem obvious, but guess what size you think your horse wears and then pull out the tape measure. You may be surprised.

The Toklat Timberline earned Best Buy.

It is harder than you may think to find a turnout blanket for your horse that will fit him well. Getting the right size and the right style of blanket will ensure that you get properly functioning turnout blanket that will shift less—if it even shifts at all—and won’t rub your horse’s shoulders. However, you will have to actually get out the tape measure to do it.

When we began this trial, we asked our testers to tell us their horse’s blanket size. Then, we went out to the barn ourselves and measured those horses. To our surprise, more than half of the horse owners didn’t know their horse’s correct…