The spurs should just be used to reinforce the leg aid and used
judiciously with a quiet/accurate leg. Suspect he required them for a
quiet horse to insure he would respond properly if necessary.
I have spoken to a couple cops who were on mounted patrols. They
clearly need fairly quiet horses that would not over react to traffic
etc. The spurs in the image are quite good sized. I used to wear short
nubbins for my warm blood, Fractal. Ironically the "pizza cutter"
style spurs are fairly mild. Wearing spurs riding the thoroughbreds we
owned would be have counterproductive and they would have taken offense
for unnecessary strong aid. Chelsea would have said, "Oh, that must
mean engage the FTL drive" and I would have been in the next county
before I could pull her up. One just had to think forward and she would
respond nicely.
Mike
That's a nice shot. But I wonder why he has spurs. Do all riders wear
spurs over there, or are they merely to look cool?
Chris
On 31 Aug 14, at 23:38, Mike Gordon via olympus
<olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Marnie is traveling, leaving Othello with only one very busy servant.
She spotted this cop giving out parking tickets.
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=14302
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