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Photo Challenge: 13 Horses Getting the Perfect Scratch
No equine expression is more fun than “itchy face.”
Dogs will thump a hind leg, cats will rub their faces on you, and horses … they make “itchy face,” that sort of goofy blissed-out expression complete with the twitchy upper lip. There are few greater pleasures in the horse world than finding that spot that drives your horse nuts (in a good way) and giving them a good, solid scratch: here are 13 reader-submitted photos capturing that exact moment.
![Coni Smith: Duncan is one of the lesson horses I ride at Blueoxer Riding Academy. Photo credit Emily King Brinkman](https://assets.horsenation.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/14680603_1634125833281062_4954455518721842685_n.jpg)
Coni Smith: Duncan is one of the lesson horses I ride at Blueoxer Riding Academy. Photo credit Emily King Brinkman
![Jenna Stauder: Oh I have so many! This is Chance, the most scratchable horse I've ever known. Picture by Jenna Stauder.](https://assets.horsenation.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/14632814_10202465608678629_9100118268227027655_n.jpg)
Jenna Stauder: Oh I have so many! This is Chance, the most scratchable horse I’ve ever known. Picture by Jenna Stauder.
![Hailey Longstreth: My husband making friends with the little colt Junior in the pasture at a horse show we were at. Photo by Hailey Longstreth](https://assets.horsenation.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/14642508_10154230063138821_2170896858375522853_n.jpg)
Hailey Longstreth: My husband making friends with the little colt Junior in the pasture at a horse show we were at. Photo by Hailey Longstreth
![Emily Bernstein: Me scratching Stalin, a horse at Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue. Photo by Adrien Green](https://assets.horsenation.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/14729224_827630640138_125705142050700198_n.jpg)
Emily Bernstein: Me scratching Stalin, a horse at Gentle Giants Draft Horse Rescue. Photo by Adrien Green
Keep an eye out for next week’s 24-hour photo challenge! We announce challenge subjects on Monday around the middle of the day on both Instagram and Facebook.
Go riding!
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