The Spursuader Spur

Every rider has felt it — the moment a subtle leg aid simply isn't enough, but a traditional spur creates exactly the tension you were trying to avoid. For sensitive horses, particularly Thoroughbreds, that line is razor thin. One inadvertent touch and they're bracing, anticipating, shutting down before the conversation even begins.

It was that problem — and a deep respect for the sensitive horse — that led Linda Hauck to design something different.

"The reason I developed this spur was in large part my experience riding sensitive horses, particularly Thoroughbreds. How they overreacted to a traditional spur, how some would get tense right away when they knew you were wearing a spur — or watching a horse get inadvertently 'spurred'. That got me thinking that there must be another way to get our point across to the horse without offending or creating tension in that horse." — Linda Hauck, Inventor