06/09/2025
❗️REMEMBER FOLKS❗️ DON’T SCRAPE AFTER HOSING ❗️❗️
🚫 Why You Should Not Use a Sweat Scraper in Hot Weather Cooling
Sweat scrapers remove excess water, which can be counterproductive during the cooling process. Here’s why:
💧Water acts as a heat sink — as it evaporates or is rinsed off and replaced with cooler water, it draws heat away from the horse’s body.
💧Scraping the water off too soon interrupts the conduction process that removes heat.
💧Studies (including research from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics) have shown that continuous application of cold water without scraping was more effective for reducing core temperature in overheated horses.
In short: Let the water run, reapply often, and don’t scrape it off during the cooling phase. Scraping can be done after the horse’s temperature is normalized, simply to remove excess moisture for drying.
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