Kevin:
Those spurs are beautiful works of art from an artist's hands.
They reminded me of something. Before I purchased this thoroughbred stallion in Pakistan during the confusion folliowng the 1979 execution of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, some would-be jockey had tried to use spurs on him. I was told that the jockey had almost been killed. And when it came to the riding crop, you had only to show it to him. He didn't "respond well" to being hit with it. He was the grandson of Nasrullah, and you simply did not want to mess with this stud.
Sculptor (PAK) gave me seven winners at the track before he died --and he died, as they say, the way a stallion should -- a massive heart attack while "in the saddle doing his thing":
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/sculptorpak1970.jpg)