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Grady hates being sprayed! So i have just been spraying flay spray on a brush and going over him with it. He gets VERY aggitated with the flies, so he really needs the fly spray. He looks sooo scared if i spray him, and i try to go quickly, and his ears pin back and his eyes just look very scared. He then won't let me brush him after, so i have to pet him and stroke him until he trust me again. He is a OTTB so he may hav had some bad encounters with spray on the track. Pleas help!! 
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The horse I ride is the same way with fly spray, only he's only a baby about getting sprayed and hasn't had a possible bad history with it or anything. :P
And the flies also love to eat him up, so it's definitely essential for him to be sprayed.
I just try to spray him as quickly as possible and steer clear of his face...
I just spray a rag really well and wipe around his face after I spray his body.
I can't help much but I suggest starting low on his legs and working your way up to his butt and back?
It seems to work a little bit for Bailey, the horse I ride.
That way he at least knows it isn't headed for his face, which is where he is probably most sensitive.
Just try to get the spray over with as quickly as possible and don't throw it around his face where he most likely wants it the least. xP
Hopefully that helped some.
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thanks! 
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| Practice with it. Get an empty bottle and fill it up with water and spray around him (not at him) until he's used to that and then start on his legs and gradually work more and more until he gets used to it completely. Rascal is also an OTTB and he doesn;'t like the spray at all, but he's a tpical TB with really thin skin, and so the spray bugs him. Some horses are always like that. But yeah, I mean, this is what has worked for other people, Rascal has gotten a bit used to it now. I'd say when you're doing it, have someone hold him and let him move around a bit, but not like run away from it. Let him have a bit of freedom but not a lot. You could also use fly spray wipes or I know they make fly "collars" for horses too that I've heard work ok. Fly sheets are great and so are fly masks. Cashel makes one for riding as well if they bother his head/ears/nose when you're riding.
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Rainy used to jump all over the place when I sprayed him with fly spray when I first got him. Here's what I did.
Take said horse into round pen or arena. Use a long lead rope or lounge line. Fill an old fly spray bottle with water. Let the horse smell the bottle and nozzle. Spray it into the air and let the horse watch it. Depending on the horse it may or may not run at this point. If he starts to run, talk soothingly, and let him run. He'll start to slow down and then stop. Spray it into the air a few times more, and once he doesn't run from it being sprayed in the air, spray his hooves and slowly work your way up his legs and then to his body. Rainy would allow me to spray it on his shoulder before he would let me spray his hindquarters, but it really depends on the horse what parts he's more sensitive about.
Remember to switch the direction he will run in so that he is desensitized to it evenly. I did this with him like, two times a week, probably, and it took him around a month before he would allow me to spray him anywhere(except face, of course) on his body while he was grazing and I didn't have a halter or anything on him. Now he doesn't bat an eye when I spray him. I have no idea if this is anything like what another person would do, but after reading John Lyons' book, he does it this way too. =P
Good luck!
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