Using a false tail is a great way to make your horse's tail look fuller. Learn how to put one on your horse in this presentation from Horseland.com.au.

1. How to Make Your Horse's Tail
Fuller with False Tails

2. 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.

3. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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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