Favourite sound is probably the in season whispered nicker. You have to be standing beside her to here it. It's very faint but means ' any chance then'
If you have ever watched colt starring with most of the known western clinicians...
After saddling -its a western saddle -
You don't pull stirrups down due to staddle
BUT
They do flap them around and snap them
To make a similar sound and also bump them a little on the horses sides to
De sensatize them.
On English saddles stirrups get run up
But on western they hang down all
The time so longing with a saddle on
They can flop and make noises.
No of course I am never slow and gentle with my horses....... Priceless! I just love to tug hard down on the leathers and frighten the bejaysus out of my horses as I do so. Just to clarify - it must be just me and my particular leathers I have used over the years, but this delightful sound does not need any brute strength or harsh and clumsy actions around my horses to replicate the sound. I guess it is all just part of the rough and ignorant old timer's habits I have picked up over the years! And no - it is not part of some deep and meaningful lost heritage with a deep and meaningful purpose behind it other than to pull the damn irons down ready to mount!
Truthfully I really don't know why I ever started posting on here again!
You can pop yours over the horn can't you or is that not how they are stored?
I must not be slow and gentle either!lol nor were the riding school instructors that gave me my first adult lessons (please keep posting, it's too quiet without you for long)
Totally agree with that comment and thanks for telling me about the horn. I think I would be naughty and hang things off it, myself probably included here.But... sometimes they are left free and flopping. I've seen it done both ways with different clinicians.
NO one clinician has the magic bullet that everything they do is right and true for every horse.
(although some think they do)
I pick and choose from all of them what works for me and my horse.