It’s been two months since Prem\/Bob arrived at his new home in sunny Leicestershire, and his character is really showing through now.<\/p>\n
From the gentle little wicker I get in the mornings, to the full-blown YES!’ of a wicker I get at tea-time, he’s proving he has a sense of occasion.<\/p>\n
And a sense of humour.<\/p>\n
Like when I’m skipping out and he clamps his teeth on the shavings fork and tries to carry it around the box for me.<\/p>\n
And the way he won’t let me top up his water bucket without taking a good long pull at the water before I put it in.<\/p>\n
And let’s also mention the way he won’t take water from the automatic drinker in the first place.<\/p>\n
Such a character.<\/p>\n
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Prem\/Bob is up to 15-minutes of in-hand walking per day.<\/p>\n
The vet said he would rather that we didn’t use the walker, so for 15-minutes a day Prem\/Bob and I walk purposefully around the arena.<\/p>\n
After just ambling about, leaving random tracks in the equirubber\/sand surface, I hit on a cunning plan to raise the boredom threshold.<\/p>\n
We are walking almost every dressage test I’ve ever ridden (and a couple that I’ve only judged, not ridden).<\/p>\n
We had a few sticky moments with Medium 71 the other day, but that was partly down to a young horse pratting about in a nearby paddock, and Prem’s\/Bob’s natural inclination to run through the bridle (we almost didn’t stay at walk).<\/p>\n
As well as following these patterns in walk, we are also working on our halt to walk, and walk to halt transitions.<\/p>\n
They’re not exactly snappy yet, but at least these transitions are becoming established.<\/p>\n
His halts are now usually square in front, but he trails his hind legs as if they were stuck on with Bluetack as an afterthought.<\/p>\n
Bless.<\/p>\n
Prem’s\/Bob’s second leg-scan is due mid-to-late September.<\/p>\n
I’m hoping that the Vet will say we can consider saddling up, even if we do need to keep the work at low-level, zero-impact.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, we’re just going to keep working our way through British Dressage and British Eventing dressage tests.<\/p>\n
An unexpected bonus of mucking Prem\/Bob out twice a day is that I have shed 3\/4 of a stone, and I’m nearly back at my riding competition weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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