If your horse has no tail, you may choose to add a false wrap, which is essentially a bit of braided hair. Check out these tips from Horseland.com.au on how to add one for your horse.

1. How to Add a False Wrap
to Your Horse's Tail

2. You may need to add a false wrap tail to
your horse's tail. It’s for a horse that really
has no tail. It’s a long flat piece of braided
hair. You start off at the bottom of your
dock, you start sectioning off, picking up
small bits of hair and plaiting it in. You
always need an assistant. If you haven’t
got someone to help you, it is nearly be-

3. because you need to hold the hair out. The
hair has to go over the top of the false
piece. You plait that about an inch and a
half. Then you rubber band it and you do a
full wrap of the tail again and finish it off.
It is quite time consuming, so don’t think
you can do it in five minutes. It takes atleast

5. twenty minutes to half an hour to put a tail
in. Then, you pick the tail up, wrap it
around. Your assistant is important because
she holds the hair so I can pick the last bit
to finish it off and you plait it in. But
whatever you do, do not have your plaits
over the top of each other or you will end up
in a big bunch. You must have them one

6. on top of the other because it will leave a
big lump in your tail. Remember you have a
horse with a chewed up tail, not a very
good tail, so you try to camouflage the fact
that you’re putting on a false tail.
They are very good in Arabs and so on,
horses which need extra length on the tail.

7. They naturally don’t grow great tails but
there are also very good in show horses
that have had them chewed off. Pick up a
little bit of hair and you pick a bit of the dock
up. You pick up a bit of the wrap, and as
you get to the top, try to get your plaits a bit
finer. That’s where your hair is going to be
thinner and you plait down. You don’t have

8. plait down very far, about an inch and a
half. Try to keep your hair lying flat and
don’t make your plaits too big.
Rubber band it off at the end and I’ll brush it
down. Pull the hair out and then we’ll cut it
off at the pony's right length. We get a hook
or a comb and pull some hair out, so then

9. you can camouflage your wrap on the side.
This hook is very good for it because it just
gets bits and pieces out. If you go through
and have a look and it starts to show a little
bit, just go under it and pull some more hair
out. It may need a little bit more pulled out
on top. We can bandage that down and cut
it off.

10. Then once again, you hold the hair of your
tail really flat to the length you want it and
you cut it off. The scissors must be sharp.
We do one cut to get the hair off. Then get
your hair flat and see if it has come out
level You just trim that underneath side a
fraction shorter and the corners off it. The
corners underneath fall shorter than the top.

11. To show you that you can’t see it, you fan it
out, and a judge can pick it up and they
cannot even see there’s a wrap in there.
You could see that when you go very close
but, the horse carries it very naturally. It’s
like it’s theirs.

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