Teach Me Tuesday: Liniment

Only the best for my little guy

It's time for Teach Me Tuesday! There are many aspects of the horse industry that are simply lost on me. I'm not saying they're right or wrong or good or bad, I just don't understand them and I would like to.

This week, I want to know about liniment. I see lots of bloggers talk about it. I know it has widespread use throughout disciplines in the horse industry. I know lots of people like it. I assume that horses don't mind it, but I have nothing to base that on other than an assumption that if horses didn't like it, than well-meaning owners wouldn't use it.

Does this face need liniment? Does liniment go on faces?

Here's the thing. I grew up in a nice barn that was focused on horse care and training, but rarely touched on the finer points of life. To this day as a mid-twenties sometime-competitor, I have never used liniment. I occasionally pick it up off the shelf at the tack store and say "Hey, other bloggers like this", but I never progress to actually purchasing it because the whole thing is a big question mark to me.

I literally do not know what it is for or why people use it or what it is.

Do you use liniment? Why? Would it be beneficial to Courage if I were to actually buy myself some and start using it? What does it do?