Eventing & Endurance Grooming That Keeps Up

Eventing and endurance days bring sweat, mud, and long hours under tack — grooming has to keep pace. Revive is a gentle full-body wash for sweat after cross-country or a long endurance day, paired with Repair Cream for skin rubbed raw by tack and Repel Oil Shampoo for days when flies won't let up on course.

Getting the sweat off after cross-country and endurance days

A horse coming home from eventing's three phases or a long day on an endurance ride is usually soaked through with sweat, dust, and dried mud. Revive is a gentle, non-stripping everyday wash made with plant oils and magnesium, so you can bathe as often as the work calls for without drying out the coat or the skin underneath. Rinse thoroughly and let the coat dry before rugging up, especially after a hot endurance day, and check legs and belly for scrapes while you're down there.

Where tack rubs, protect the skin

Girths, saddle pads, boots, and hour after hour in the saddle all create friction, and that friction shows up as tack rubs — see our notes on girth galls and tack rubs. Repair Cream is a shea and cocoa butter barrier balm, applied to intact skin before or after work, that cuts friction and helps a sore spot settle down between rides. Where you can, give a rubbed area a day or two of less friction. Even easy hand-walking helps, and a well-fitted girth or boot does more for prevention than any balm ever will.

Dealing with flies on a long day out

• Repel Oil Shampoo is a wash you bathe with — not a leave-on fly spray.
• Citronella, lemongrass, eucalyptus, and tea tree oils do the repelling here, giving a gentler, botanical effect.
• Botanical deterrents fade faster than synthetic sprays do, so plan on rewashing or reapplying more often on the buggiest days on course.
• See our fly season grooming picks for more options when the bugs get heavy.
• None of these three products are eventing- or endurance-specific chemistry — they work on any horse. This is just a sensible set for a hard, sweaty, bug-heavy day of work.