And people are losing their absolute minds over it.
Now I’m not a spur user at the moment as I’m of the school of thought that the spur is not to be used for forward but more refinement of more advanced aids. I have a 6 year old and it has not been needed.
But my understanding was that some horses could easily get spur marks and then it wasn’t necessarily due to bad riding or abuse (one thought I had was clipped horses.) Obviously that’s what the article is exploring.
Obviously our horses should not be bleeding in all the time. And I’m sure it could absolutely be caused by bad riding but I don’t think that’s the only reason?
What do you all think? Most of the people that I’ve seen write lengthy and angry posts about this article are very far from upper level dressage riders. In fact some of them are in different disciplines all together. In riding woolly mammoths in the winter. Not clipped 4th level horses. And some of them I know do wear spurs but more the western type with rollers.
Anyways, Facebook is always interesting these days.
I love a good discussion though so if someone knows more about this with actual evidence to back it up please share! I’m definitely just a low level ammy myself riding my own woolly mammoth so I’m pretty slow to judge anyone else.