Best horse clippers for taming every type of winter coat

Liveryman’s most powerful clipper, the Black Beauty, is renowned for its durability and efficiency, making it a top choice for professional groomers and horse owners. Its brushless motor handles even the thickest winter coats without overheating, ensuring consistent performance. Variable speed allows for quieter clipping, ideal for nervous horses or sensitive areas. Box includes handset with A2 blades/combs, oil, brush, and manual.

Box includes handset with A2 blades/combs, oil, brush, and manual.

You can also purchase this handset with a battery pack, which will give you four hours of clipping time and the flexibility to use the clipper anywhere.

These clippers are highly favoured, and our tester, freelance groom Lucie Holt used them as mains powered clippers – they soon became her first choice for all her clipping tasks. She said “I’ve clipped all types of horse with these – from shetlands to thoroughbreds – and the finish has been excellent in all cases. They really do just glide through any thickness of coat.”

Read H&H’s independent Liveryman Black Beauty clippers review.

This battery-powered Heiniger handset is equipped with two speeds and a unique tensioning system with a clear tension guide, reducing wear and extending clipper life. It delivers the power of a mains clipper while being lighter and more powerful than the Heiniger Xplorer. It has patented noise reduction features and the absence of a trailing cable increases the flexibility and portability. It features a practical LED display on the charger unit that indicates the current battery charge level

The set includes two batteries, a 31/15 blade set, oil, brush and charger unit in a durable carry case.

Liveryman described this as their most versatile clipper as it can be used as both a clipper or trimmer and is extremely quiet. The Harmony Plus is easy to use and is suitable for daily use. It has low noise and low vibration, which is ideal when introducing a horse to clippers or those that are not used to frequent clipping.

The blades are easy to switch and require no tensioning. The box contains a handset fitted with A5 blade (narrow, wide or two blade options), oil, brush and instruction manual. Additional battery packs are also available to purchase separately.

One of Lister’s most popular products, the Star is a powerful, fast, and efficient clipper ideal for both professionals and enthusiasts. Its slim, balanced grip ensures maximum comfort, while its lightweight design allows for longer clipping sessions. They feature an intelligent tensioning system to ensure the right cutting pressure every time. The set includes A2F blades fitted as standard, 60ml clipper oil and a brush.

The Masterclip Hunter is a powerful air-cooled heavy-duty horse clipper that has a modern magnetic motor that is suitable for clipping a variety of different horse breeds. It comes with one set of high grade 1.5mm fine cut blades, which are ideal for full body clipping, along with a 100ml of clipper oil and is presented in a silver carry case.

The newest innovation from Lister is the Eclipse 2.0 – re-engineered, refined, and redesigned. The ultimate cordless horse clipper is now enhanced for even greater comfort and performance. With advanced noise reduction, lower vibration, and the same ultra-lightweight, ultra-quiet feel as the original (Lister Eclipse), the Eclipse 2.0 delivers a smooth, effortless clipping experience for both horse and user. It is supplied with a battery, charging stand and charger, set of fine blades a cleaning brush and oil.

This slim, powerful, agile and balanced handset from Heiniger has a patented noise reduction mechanism. It has two speeds, with a top speed of 2,900 double strokes per minute, and is well ventilated to allow for cool running all day. The handset comes with a standard clipping blade set, screwdriver, oil and brush in a durable carry case.

If you’re looking for a cordless heavy-duty clipper, this Masterclip handset could be the one for you. The batteries are stored neatly in the handset making it ideal for clipping fidgety, nervous horses and youngstock. It’s one of the heavier handsets, but it does have to accommodate the batteries, which not all cordless clippers do. The HD Roamer comes with two rechargeable Li-ion batteries, which provide plenty of time to carry out a full clip.

It can cope with any type of coat and a variety of A2 clipper blades can be used to offer a superfine, fine, medium or coarse finish. It comes in a sturdy carry case with two batteries, charger, clipper oil, cleaning brush and one set of premium A2 blades.

The Phoenix clipper features advanced brushless motor technology for efficiency, durability, and reduced noise, minimising wear and tear. Its gearing system provides superior torque for all coat types and the dual Li-ion batteries offer cordless, mains-level power for extended grooming.

It’s also one of the quietest heavy duty clippers on the market, making it ideal for nervous horses. Each kit includes A2 2.4mm blades, two batteries, a charging base, oil, a cleaning brush, instructions, and a storage bag.

This high-quality German-built heavy-duty mains clipper offers smooth performance in tough conditions, which gives it the edge when clipping varying types of coats. It is described as a reliable all-round clipper suited for a variety of uses. It has a relatively quiet running motor for a heavy-duty machine and is easy to handle, plus the handpiece is slightly tapered and easy to hold. It is supplied in a hard carry case with A2 blades, clipper oil and a brush.