Sooner or later, as a horse owner – you are going to have to learn the proper way to wrap a bandage on your horse.
A simple tutorial on how to wrap polo fleece bandages on your horse. 
With standing wraps, leg wraps are necessary. With polo wraps, you do not need leg wraps underneath.
Polo wraps are bandage materials and nowadays they are usually made of fleece. They are used on a horse’s legs and can be quite cumbersome to wrap the first few times! They are quite stretchy compared to other bandaging materials, and are used mainly for the horse’s protection during ridden work, longeing, and turnout.
- When you purchase new polo’s you need to unwrap them, and then re-wrap them tightly with the Velcro on the underside.
- Take the end and put it in the middle of the INSIDE of the leg between the knee and fetlock. The fetlock is the joint between the bones of the lower and middle leg of a horse.
- When the polo is on your side of the leg, it should be going towards the tail.Â
- Work downwards.
- When you get to the fetlock , you bring it towards you, bring it down, and around the fetlock, then back up, so you should have a kind of upside-down V shape. Do this twice.
- Work your way back up, and Velcro. If you do it backwards and the Velcro is on the wrong side, you have to unwrap, rewrap and start over.
Some important notes that will help!
- Always go front to back (otherwise it can rip the tendons)
- The tension in the wrap should be as uniform as possible across the entire leg. Uneven pressure may cause damage to tendons.
- Wrap clockwise on the horse’s right side and counter-clockwise on the horse’s left side
- Always start in the middle and keep the wraps even and flat
- When you re-wrap them (when you take them off) wrap the Velcro into itself
- If you have extra material, go back to the middle
- When you go around the leg, make sure your spacing is even
- If you jump with them, be sure to periodically check to make sure they’re tight and not falling off.
- Polo’s are not suitable for use in potentially wet conditions (such as cross-country riding or riding through puddles), as they absorb water and become very heavy and sag.
Be very careful the first couple of times that you wrap polo’s. They can truly hurt your horse if applied improperly. We suggest that you wrap the first couple of times with someone that has experience.
