Thanks for that information, Mike.
Chris
On 1 Sep 2014, at 13:53, Mike Gordon via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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.
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