{"id":127,"date":"2007-08-08T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2012-05-05T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T09:10:53","slug":"horse-news-at-ten%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"(Horse) News At Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bong!<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve been remiss.<\/p>\n

Bong!<\/em><\/p>\n

Much has occurred.<\/p>\n

Bong!<\/em>
\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Horse stuff:<\/strong>
\nTwo days of fence-judging at last week’s British Riding Club Horse Trials Championships had many things worth reporting on.<\/p>\n

But I won’t bore.<\/p>\n

I’ll just say that the first day was excellent with many things going on.<\/p>\n

And the second day was even more excellent (due largely to having The Lovely S with me).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile my own horse news:<\/strong>
\nI’m schooling Big Vin each evening; concentrating on transitions and changes.<\/p>\n

I know this is esoteric flatwork stuff, but if we’re to continue to improve our jumping we need to elevate our dressage considerably.<\/p>\n

There’s a Hunter Trial competition at Allenshill on Saturday which we’re going to enter.<\/p>\n

I think we’ll school around though, rather than ride in full-on competitive mode.<\/p>\n

I’d like to use the Hunter Trial as a valuable training opportunity because… <\/p>\n

Next weekend we’re competing in a Mercian Teams Two-Phase Horse Trials at Deer Park in Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n

So schooling Vin around Allenshill’s Hunter Trial course would go a long way in our preparation programme.<\/p>\n

Other horse news:<\/strong>
\nI’m walking Beech out morning and evening.<\/p>\n

I’m giving him half an hour of grazing on the end of a long lead.<\/p>\n

He’s had his shoes removed and feet trimmed; sounds as though he’s got his carpet slippers on when he walks on concrete.<\/p>\n

Beech’s mental state has improved dramatically since I started walking him out to graze.<\/p>\n

He looks perky and has adopted an alert, interested expression rather than looking permanently morose.<\/p>\n

His final set of x-rays are due in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Once they’ve been developed and analysed we’ll know where we go next in the Beech Healthcare Plan.<\/p>\n

So all in all the horse-world has been busy lately.<\/p>\n

B<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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