Try the newer spot on fly control.. Equi-Spot, Freedom 45 etc.. They come in a little tube that you just dot on certain areas. These work for up to 2 weeks also! While it is good to desensitize them to being sprayed, like Cloudy and Washy says, don't sweat the small stuff, find an alternative route! Good Luck!!

Many thanks to all that replied!

Horsehair, I had a horse that didn't like being sprayed but it wasn't the spray, it was the noise the sprayer made. So I brought one of those sprayer that you pump up to put pressure inside the container and then when you press the trigger there is no noise. The horse quit jumping around when sprayed. You may want to try it. Double

HH, the round pen (if you have one) works great. Run him 2-3 times each direction, bring him in, command him to stand, and start spraying around his legs (if he really dances, don't actually spray the legs). Once he starts moving, send him out for 2 rounds each direction, do the steps again. His release for standing is not to run. This has worked well w/my guys. Hope this helps AAAApps

i had a qh who was allergic to oil based sprays....i found a year into it...so when i switched formulations....no more dancing...also the gloves mentioned are great too....

Not sure where I got it but they have furry type gloves that are lined with vynal (sp) that you can spray the fly spray on and then whipe it on your horse. Most of my horses hate to be spayed . I think it sounds like a snake or something to them. They also make wipe on towellettes with fly spray on them . I suppose you could also desensatizing your horse with patients and training just like you have to do to use clippers on a horse. Like cloudy says spraying or wiping its all small stuff . LOL Steve

put him in the round pen, use a sprayer with just water, he'll run but will stop after awhile, make it easer to be sprayed than to run away this works fer lots of trouble, but it might take a week or 2 before he's comortable, Good Luck Hoss

HH, out of all my horses, I have one that won't stand for spraying at all. I can hose him down, ride through tumbling mountain streams to pulling a 5-up pack string. But, he won't let me spray him with a sprayer. To get the fly spray on him, I use a soft, horse-hair brush, spray the brush, then brush him down. Sounds like a pain in the neck, but this horse has carried me over a few mountain trails. This technique gets us by...it falls in the "small stuff" category. And I never sweat the small stuff.... :-) But, reading the last post...if he stands to be hosed off...mebbe try one of those garden sprayers on the end of a garden hose, with a water soluable fly spray...;)

Very simple show him the sprayer rub it on him then start spraying his legs then his body just as if you were teaching a colt to stand to bath him. Some horse find the noise from a hand sprayer a bit annoying another alternitive especially if you have multiple horses is to buy a one gallon garden sprayer

How to train him to stand still? He is perfect for groomming and such, but dances all over the place when I try to spritz him.