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Keep Every Braid Perfect From Barn to Ring
The UltraFlex® Faceless Full Zip Full Body Slicker wraps your horse in four-way stretch lycra — protecting braids, bands, and show coats without covering the face. Full-body coverage. Open face. On and off in seconds.
The Problem
Hours of Braiding — Gone in One Stall Rub
It’s 5:30 a.m. on show day, and you’re standing in the barn aisle looking at the mane you finished the night before. One braid has loosened near the withers. Two bands have shifted. There are shavings pressed into your horse’s shoulder and dust along the barrel, even though the coat was spotless when you turned out the lights. Your first class is getting closer, and the quiet prep window you planned is already disappearing.
Every rider who bands or braids knows how vulnerable that work can feel between the last check at night and the first check in the morning. Your horse still needs to lower the neck, reach for hay, lie down, stand up, and settle into the stall. A standard stable sheet can help cover the body, but it leaves the mane and poll exposed. The areas that needed the most careful preparation may still be open to bedding, dust, and rubbing.
The cost is more than an imperfect braid. You lose the time you expected to spend feeding, organizing tack, checking numbers, or giving your horse a calm walk before the show grounds get busy. Instead, you’re reaching for thread, bands, brushes, and a damp towel. Your horse feels that change in pace, too. What should have been an orderly morning becomes another round of handling while trailers arrive, aisle traffic builds, and the clock keeps moving.
A full hood may provide more coverage, but face coverings are not the right choice for every horse. That leaves you caught between a conventional sheet that does not reach the mane and a hood your horse may not comfortably tolerate—the exact gap that makes protecting show-night preparation so difficult.
Every rider who bands or braids knows how vulnerable that work can feel between the last check at night and the first check in the morning. Your horse still needs to lower the neck, reach for hay, lie down, stand up, and settle into the stall. A standard stable sheet can help cover the body, but it leaves the mane and poll exposed. The areas that needed the most careful preparation may still be open to bedding, dust, and rubbing.
The cost is more than an imperfect braid. You lose the time you expected to spend feeding, organizing tack, checking numbers, or giving your horse a calm walk before the show grounds get busy. Instead, you’re reaching for thread, bands, brushes, and a damp towel. Your horse feels that change in pace, too. What should have been an orderly morning becomes another round of handling while trailers arrive, aisle traffic builds, and the clock keeps moving.
A full hood may provide more coverage, but face coverings are not the right choice for every horse. That leaves you caught between a conventional sheet that does not reach the mane and a hood your horse may not comfortably tolerate—the exact gap that makes protecting show-night preparation so difficult.
Why It Keeps Happening
Your Horse Doesn't Know the Class Is in Two Hours
The problem isn’t that you failed to prepare, and it isn’t that your horse did something wrong overnight. The problem is that many common covers force you to choose between limited coverage and face coverage, even when what you actually need is protection around the neck, mane, and body without covering your horse’s eyes, ears, or muzzle.
A standard sheet begins at the chest and withers, so it cannot cover bands or braids farther up the neck. A traditional full-body slicker can reach those areas, but many designs continue over the face. If your horse dislikes having fabric near the eyes or ears, putting it on can become the most stressful part of an otherwise careful routine. Even when your horse accepts it, you still have to position the openings correctly and check that the covering remains where it belongs.
Then the show-morning cycle starts. You remove the cover, discover that part of the mane needs attention, and begin making repairs while also trying to keep the freshly groomed coat away from dusty walls and bedding. You smooth one section, tighten another, brush the shoulder, and check the tail. Each small correction takes only a few minutes, but together they consume the margin that helps both you and your horse arrive at the ring settled rather than hurried.
The usual workaround is to keep adding separate pieces: a sheet for the body, another cover for the neck, and possibly a hood for the head. More pieces mean more closures to adjust and more gear to pack, wash, and track at the show. You are still left trying to assemble the right amount of coverage around a horse who simply needs to move, rest, and feel comfortable before the class.
A standard sheet begins at the chest and withers, so it cannot cover bands or braids farther up the neck. A traditional full-body slicker can reach those areas, but many designs continue over the face. If your horse dislikes having fabric near the eyes or ears, putting it on can become the most stressful part of an otherwise careful routine. Even when your horse accepts it, you still have to position the openings correctly and check that the covering remains where it belongs.
Then the show-morning cycle starts. You remove the cover, discover that part of the mane needs attention, and begin making repairs while also trying to keep the freshly groomed coat away from dusty walls and bedding. You smooth one section, tighten another, brush the shoulder, and check the tail. Each small correction takes only a few minutes, but together they consume the margin that helps both you and your horse arrive at the ring settled rather than hurried.
The usual workaround is to keep adding separate pieces: a sheet for the body, another cover for the neck, and possibly a hood for the head. More pieces mean more closures to adjust and more gear to pack, wash, and track at the show. You are still left trying to assemble the right amount of coverage around a horse who simply needs to move, rest, and feel comfortable before the class.
- ✗Braids loosened or popped overnight before the class
- ✗Mane bands slipping by the time you reach the warm-up ring
- ✗A full hood that spooks your horse or leaves rubs on the face
- ✗Show coats grimy from a morning in the stall after grooming
The Solution
Full Coverage, Open Face — The UltraFlex® Slicker
The UltraFlex® Faceless Full Zip Full Body Slicker is built around a different coverage plan: protect the neck and body while leaving your horse’s face open. Its signature 8 oz. four-way stretch Lycra extends from the poll to the tail and is designed to move with your horse. The fabric is listed as providing greater than 95% UV protection, while the open-face cut removes the eye and ear openings found on traditional full hoods. That gives you show-prep coverage without placing fabric over your horse’s face.
The fit details are designed to help the slicker remain positioned during stall use. A two-inch-wide flat elastic band, encased in Lycra, adjusts at the throatlatch with a hook-and-loop closure. A wide no-snag hook-and-loop bellyband secures the body, while adjustable elastic hind-leg straps move with your horse. At the back, the split tail cover provides tail coverage while allowing higher tail sets to move freely. These are published construction details—not assumptions about how a generic slicker should fit.
A full-separating YKK zipper opens from the chest to the throat, making the slicker easier to put on and remove without working a closed neck opening over finished mane preparation. Once it is in place, the full-body design helps keep your horse clean and dust-free, helps keep braids and bands neat, and helps encourage the mane to lie down. It can also serve as a light summer neck-and-shoulder cover or as a blanket liner, giving the piece a practical role outside the final hours before a class.
For your horse, the payoff is coverage without fabric around the eyes, ears, or muzzle. For you, it is a simpler show-night system: one stretch layer for the mane, neck, coat, and tail instead of piecing together a body sheet and separate hood. Fasten the closures before laundering, wash in cool water, and line dry according to the published care instructions. It is a show-savvy solution backed by equine expertise from a family-owned business trusted since 1948.
The fit details are designed to help the slicker remain positioned during stall use. A two-inch-wide flat elastic band, encased in Lycra, adjusts at the throatlatch with a hook-and-loop closure. A wide no-snag hook-and-loop bellyband secures the body, while adjustable elastic hind-leg straps move with your horse. At the back, the split tail cover provides tail coverage while allowing higher tail sets to move freely. These are published construction details—not assumptions about how a generic slicker should fit.
A full-separating YKK zipper opens from the chest to the throat, making the slicker easier to put on and remove without working a closed neck opening over finished mane preparation. Once it is in place, the full-body design helps keep your horse clean and dust-free, helps keep braids and bands neat, and helps encourage the mane to lie down. It can also serve as a light summer neck-and-shoulder cover or as a blanket liner, giving the piece a practical role outside the final hours before a class.
For your horse, the payoff is coverage without fabric around the eyes, ears, or muzzle. For you, it is a simpler show-night system: one stretch layer for the mane, neck, coat, and tail instead of piecing together a body sheet and separate hood. Fasten the closures before laundering, wash in cool water, and line dry according to the published care instructions. It is a show-savvy solution backed by equine expertise from a family-owned business trusted since 1948.
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Four-Way Stretch Lycra
Conforms to your horse's body and stays put — no bunching, no slipping, no undoing the prep work you put in the night before.
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Faceless Design
Full-body coverage stops at the poll — no hood, no face restriction, no stress for horses that won't tolerate a full cover.
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Full Front Zip
On in thirty seconds, off in thirty seconds — even over a finished braid job. No wrestling with snaps or buckles at 5 a.m. on show day.
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Sheet and Liner in One
Doubles as a light summer sheet for stall use or as a liner under a heavier blanket in cooler months — one piece that earns its trailer space all year.
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Side by Side
Not All Full-Body Slickers Cover the Same Ground
These three named products take different approaches to face coverage, fabric, closures, sizing, and secondary use. “Not listed” means the manufacturer page did not publish that detail as of the comparison date.
| Feature | Schneiders UltraFlex® Faceless Full Zip Full Body Slicker | Alliance Equine Faceless Full-Body Slinky | ROBINHOODS® Friar Tuck 6 oz. Lycra Full Body Cover |
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| Published coverage | Full-body coverage from poll to tail | Coverage from shoulders to hindquarters | One-piece full-body sheet with neck cover |
| Face design | Faceless; no eye or ear openings | Faceless; no face covering | Face coverage not explicitly listed on the product page |
| Published fabric specification | 8 oz. four-way stretch Lycra | Soft, stretchy material; fabric weight not listed | 6.2 oz. Lycra |
| Front access | Full-separating YKK zipper from chest to throat | Three-quarter zipper | Full front zipper |
| Published show-prep use | Helps keep braids and bands neat, helps lay the mane down, and helps keep the coat clean and dust-free | Helps keep the coat smooth, clean, and show-ready | Trains the mane and hair to lie flat and helps keep the coat clean and shiny |
| Blanket-liner use | Listed for use as a blanket liner | Not listed | Listed for use as a blanket liner |
| Published UV protection | Greater than 95% UV protection | Not listed | Not listed |
| Published size choices | Small, Medium, Large, X-Large | XS through XL; listed range 66–84 inches | Small, Medium, Large/Medium, Large, X-Large; listed range 66–86 inches |
| Listed price | $199.99 sale price | $153.00 | $160.95 |
| Published care instructions | Fasten closures, wash in cool water, and line dry | Not listed | Machine wash warm after fastening hook-and-loop closures; hang dry |
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The Takeaway
If your horse competes and braids matter, this slicker earns its place in the trailer.
The UltraFlex® Faceless Full Zip Full Body Slicker is purpose-built for show barns — protecting prep work without a hood, without a fight, and without giving up coverage. At $199.99, it covers more use cases than any single sheet or liner your horse already has.
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