April's Prize - New and Improved ShowSheen

For April's http://www.photo-shows.co.uk/ Absorbine Sponsored Best Turned Out Class, the winner will receive a bottle of New and Improved ShowSheen - Now With Silk Proteins & Continuous Spray.

This great new product is enriched with pro-vitamins and silk proteins to nourish the coat and shine and strengthen haie to perfection. It makes coats smooth and sleek, and it accentuates body tone and definition. ShowSheen repels dust, dirt and stains, keeping your horse cleaner for longer. It's perfect for shows as not only does it produce the finest show ring shine - it now comes as a Finishing Mist in a 15oz non-aerosol spray. ShowSheen Finishing mist has a continuous, quiet sprayer that won't spook your horse. It even sprays upside down!

Finishing Mist 444ml, RRP £12.38

March Best Turned Out Class Winner Announced

Erin Shaw's Monsoon is the winner of this Month's Absorbine Sponsored www.photo-shows.co.uk (PSO) Best Turned Out Class In the March Best Turned Out Class, the standard was exceptionally high. The judges had a really tough job to pick the winner out of an astounding 28 entries. Online Photo-Shows (PSO)are clearly going from strength to strength. Although its not hard to see why. The classes are well organised, the prizes are great and there are constant news updates for competitors on the PSO Facebook page. Monsoon looked beautifully turned out and is a worthy winner of a huge PSO rosette and bottle of SuperPoo from Absorbine. Erin, a Tactical Records Officer for Virgin Atlantic has owned the 7 year old 14.3hh Monsoon for nearly five years. Monsoon is a part-bred New Forest pony and it is pure chance that Erin came to own her. Erin says "I wasn't really looking for a horse, but I was browsing Horsequest one day, and there was Monsoon's advert, so I emailed for more information - the more pictures I saw, the more I liked her, so two days later I made the 2 hour journey to see her after work as I was worried that someone might get there before me!" Erin is very glad to have found PSO as Monsoon injured her tendon last September and it has taken a long time for her to recover, it looks as though she will miss most of the summer shows. So PSO is great as it still allows them to compete. Erin hopes to be back competing at showing and dressage once Monsoon is back to full fitness. Last season before Monsoon injured her tendon, they did a couple of County Shows and also had some good scores at Prelim Dressage. As soon as Monsoon is better the plan is to pick up where they left off, and aim for some HOYS qualifiers next year and move up a level in dressage.

Erin says "Monsoon is happiest when covered in mud and poo! So it generally takes 2 shampoos to get her show clean". Hopefully the bottle of SuperPoo will come in handy! Erin also uses Absorbine's ShowSheen and RefreshMint which she uses pretty much daily in the summer. No wonder Monsoon looks so lovely when she goes to a show. Good luck to Erin and Monsoon for PSO and hope the dressage and showing goes well too.

New Hooflex All Natural Dressing

W.F Young, Inc, manufacturers of the Absorbine range of horse care products have launched the new and improved Hooflex All Natural Dressing in the UK.

Hooflex All Natural Dressing uses only herbal ingredients to stimulate circulation and support hoof growth. It's the first all-natural alternative made with ingredients known to help promote shiny, healthy hooves. The product contains no petroleum distillates - only all-natural vegetable oils, and penetrates fast with no greasy residue. Hooflex All Natural Dressing can be used to enhance the natural hoof colour without artificial chemicals or dyes, making it ideal for native ponies, coloured horses and others that require a more natureal look.

The six active natural ingredients it contains are; Tea Tree Oil, Avocado Oil and Arnica, which help promote strong, healthy hoof growth when the horse is barefoot or shod. Lanolin, Soybean and Castor Oils act to deep condition the hoof and highlight the natural shine.

Hooflex All Natural Dressing was created for people that desire a natural approach to horsemanship, and is ideal to maintain hoof moisture balance for horses that are kept barefoot.

Hooflex All Natural Dressing will soon be available in a handy 148ml quiet spray applicator for quick and easy use. It will be really convenient at shows! For now its available in an 887ml container with brush in cap. RRP £23.40

Absorbine Products are widely available through major UK retailers.

Early Success For Team Bardo

Jayne Webber and Carol Bardo took their talented team of horses to the British Show Horse Association Southern Spring Show at Crofton Manor Equestrian Centre. This show held on the 26th March was the first 'proper' show of the season for Carol and Jayne so the pressure was on to do well!


It turned out to be a spectacularly successful day, with four horses qualifying for the Royal International Horse Show at Hickstead. Cobs Darcey Bustle and The Keystone Cob both won their respective classes and then went on to be Champion and Reserve Champion Cobs. Berkeley Square and Comberton Clancy went on to do exactly the same in the Riding Horse class.


The success continued on into the novice classes, with the team winning two of the three classes. Pillowtalk won the Novice Hack class and Hannah Pavlova took the Novice Cob class before going on to be overall Novice Champion and then finally Reserve Supreme of the show. Comberton Clancy went one better and came in Supreme Champion of the show!


A great start to the season!

Inaugural PSO Prize Goes Down Under

The inaugural Absorbine sponsored photo-shows.co.uk best turned out class has been won by Australian Karen Hendley's pony stallion Sarahn Satalight.

Photo-shows.co.uk or PSO as its affectionately known by its members is the worlds premier online horse show. There are classes for champion show horses, ex-racehorses, a much loved family pet or anything in between.

Classes run from the 1st to the end of each month with full size rosettes to 10th place, sashes, trophies and more. With classes costing just £3 to enter, its easy to see why so many people are part of the phenomenon.

New for the February show was the Absorbine sponsored Best Turned Out class. It was a very hotly contested competition but the judges unanimously decided that Sarahn Satalight was the winner.

Karen bought Sarahn Satalight as a three year old from the USA, his breeding is Arabian pony cross Welsh section B. He is by Brampton Sinbad out of Richdale Shantilly. Karen frequently and successfully shows Sarahn Satalight in hand and he also stands at stud via AI each season. Showing victories for this lovely pony include champion led Arabian pony at the Royal Melbourne Horse Show.

Showing in Australia is very different from the UK, Karen says "we travel huge distances to shows, and have known some friends to travel a 7,000 mile round trip to compete at the Australian Championship!" Karen lives in the Otway Ranges area of Victoria where the temprature can get up to 40 degrees celsius in the summer. She owns a total of 13 horses all of which she looks after and trains herself. PSO is Karen's new hobby, at which she says "my beautiful horses have been lucky enough to be extremely successful at, and this is a wonderful and exciting passtime".

Many congratulations to Karen and Sarahn Satalight from all at Absorbine UK, hopefully your Absorbine prize will help make your horses already excellent turnout even better!

New ShowSheen - The Users Verdict

Laura Pyke, our tester of the new ShowSheen comes from the Vlacq Stud in North Wales. The stud is a family business, breeding both pure bred and anglo-arabs. Laura has tried out the new ShowSheen on all her animals....

"I've been busy washing tails and dressing manes with the new ShowSheen and its great! I've also done the collie and spaniel with it!

As we have Arabs, their manes are kept full and tails left natural. The outdoor horses inevitably get muddy tails and dreadlocks from the Welsh wind. The indoor ones get sticky tails as we are on rubber mats and half beds. I go along each row of four boex washing tails, rubbing down and spraying in the ShowSheen, then go back to the beginning with my trusty paddle brush and brushing through takes no time at all.

This stuff is great. Used dry on manes (too cold still to bath!) it lets tangles slide out without pulling out hairs, and applied to towel dried tails it gets all the twists and scurfy skin out just as easily. And it ensures grime slides off for a good few days as well, meaning fewer dreadlocks and longer between the washes.

The silent sprayer is great for the babies and any reactive sorts. Product smells great too and I've even dropped the can a couple of times and it seems indestructable!

I will be using it on the broodmares close to foaling to make cleaning up after the happy event (and covering) easier, and on the foals' tails in case of scouring.

Its also great on the feathered horses (we have 2 section C's) to get their legs in showring shape after a long winter out, and also prevent them bringing in half the arena surface after a workout. I would have thought it would be a must for people with M&Ms and coloureds with white legs!!

So yes, while I will be adding one to my show kit box for those finishing touches, I'll also have one in my maintenance kits in each vehicle (hoofpick, hairbrush, fly spray, sun block, eye cream, wound spray and now ShowSheen).

Come June/July/August I know I can brush all the horses lega and chests down woth it and keep the nasty bot eggs away too... And then we will be back into autumn/winter tail damage limitation and washing again, ready for the worst the Welsh weather can throw at us!"

ShowSheen Now With Silk Proteins and Continuous Sprayer

ShowSheen hair polish and detangler is better than ever! New and improved ShowSheen is now enriched with Pro-Vitamins and silk Proteins to nourish the coat and shine and strengthen

the hair to perfection.

Not only this but the new and improved formula is available as ShowSheen finishing mist in a 15oz non aerosol continuous spray, which uses the latest bag in a bottle technology. Even better, it is now on sale in the UK.

ShowSheen makes coats smooth and sleek and accentuates body tone and definition. It repels dust, dirt and stains keeping your horse cleaner for longer and can reduce grooming time by as much as 80%.

The continuous spray has been developed to make ShowSheen totally user friendly. It is economical with a fine spray and no waste, and the quiet sprayer won't spook your horse. It is perfect for last minute touch ups at shows and even sprays upside down!

New and Improved ShowSheen is available in a 444ml (Finishing Mist Spray), a 947ml refill and spray and a 3.79l refill.

For stockists information please email info@absorbine.co.uk