To give your horse the look of a traditionally pulled mane with less discomfort for him and less work for you is the purpose of the "redesigned and improved" Grooma® ManeMaster®. The Grooma® ManeMaster® is an ABS plastic comb with two stainless steel cutting blades hidden in its teeth. The Grooma® ManeMaster® cuts the hairs to thin the mane instead of pulling them out-makes the task virtually painless for your horse.

The first step in using the ManeMaster® is the same as for regular mane-pulling: Holding the ends of a small section of mane in one hand, with the ManeMaster® in your other hand you backcomb or "tease" the hair away from your holding fingers until you're grasping only a small number of the section's longest hairs. Then, to "pull" the mane, instead of wrapping the remaining hairs around fingers (or comb) and jerking them out by the roots, you hold the tool near your grasping fingers and depress the lever to trim the ends of the longest hairs; continue backcombing and trimming a section at a time. To thin the mane, you slide the tool up the remaining long hairs, as close as possible to the crest, then depress the lever and cut them off. In each case, the horse feels no irritation, and the job is less tiring for your fingers.