Spur Tag July 23, 2008
Posted by kimayars Uncategorized
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One of the blogs I read daily is Dressage Mom. She recently “tagged” her readers asking them to put up pictures of their spurs. This is REALLY easy for me: I don’t wear them.
If I wore spurs with Tigger, I’d probably end up in the next state. A heavy leg bump is all I need right now to bring him to attention. And let’s not even discuss the whip! (I pick one up and he gets all twitchy.)
So as long as that’s working for me, we leave the spurs at home.
If you are a horsey-person and reading this blog, then consider yourself tagged! All you need to do is post a picture of your spurs and link back to this post.
Comments
I don’t wear them either. Piper has to get more sensitive to my leg before I start wearing them ’cause I think that spurs are used to make your leg use more refined, not to be used when your horse won’t listen to your leg to start. And I would probably end up in Alberta if I tried!
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