Remember you want the mane to look natural, NOT CUT.
Many people choose to band their horse's mane for halter and pleasure. Personally I prefer no bands, unless there are some mane hairs at the bridle path that need to be banded to make them lay down.
TAIL - A natural tail is longer on the outside and tapers up toward the leg 4 - 5 inches. Long tails are the style and I have found the more I trim tails the faster they grow. I trim a tail to just touch the ground, no longer. You do not want your horse stepping on his tail and pulling it out, while backing. When I say trim a tail to make it grow, I trim off as little as possible, maybe an 1/8th of an inch, and shape it. Some people cut horse's tails off straight (blunt) at the bottom. When the horse carries his tail the outside is shorter than the inside and is very heavy and unnatural looking.
LEGS - Legs are trimmed in the back from behind and below the knee and hock down, removing all of the excess hair and fetlock hairs. I run my clippers, #10 blade, down the leg in order to not cut the hair too short. With white socks and stockings, I run the clippers, #10 blade, up the legs removing white hair ONLY, cutting it short. This makes the socks easy to keep clean and white.
JAWS - Take the clippers and hold them in your hand so that the blades point up toward the jaw and comb with the top of the clippers moving toward the chin. You do not want them very short.
EARS - Clip all the hair inside the ear and along the edge with a #10 or #30 blade. I prefer the #30.
BRIDLE PATH - When clipping the bridle path I use a #30 blade. Always clip from the mane towards the forelock and clip straight off the top of their head. If the horse raises his head, and you are clipping from the forelock toward the mane, you may cut off more mane than you want to. Clip off, with scissors, the long body hairs that grow close to the forelock.
MUZZLE - Using #40 blades, cut whiskers by starting above the nostrils and cutting down toward the end of the nose.
