{"id":2627,"date":"2010-01-20T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T23:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2010-01-23T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T22:42:57","slug":"on-learning-a-dressage-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"On learning a dressage test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BE 90, Test 92<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Enter at working trot. Proceed down the centre line without halting. Track right<br \/>\n<em>yep, we can do that<\/em><\/p>\n<p>B: Circle right 20m diameter<br \/>\n<em>uh-huh, with you so far, chicken<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Between F &amp; A: Transition to walk 3-7 steps, then proceed in working trot<br \/>\n<em>omg, don&#8217;t these people know how huuuge Tom is? And there&#8217;s a corner coming up at K!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>KXM: Change the rein in working trot<br \/>\n<em>phew, we can navigate our way around that, but getting in to the corner to start the movement might be tricky so soon after the transition<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Between M &amp; C: Working canter left<br \/>\n<em>yep, that&#8217;s a nice transition point for that movement<\/em><\/p>\n<p>C: Circle left 20m diameter<br \/>\n<em>remember this you drongo: start the fucking circle straight away you&#8217;ve got the canter, because Tom&#8217;s so huge you&#8217;d be halfway down the arena before you got him on to a left-handed circle!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CHEK: Working canter left<br \/>\n<em>oh-oh, holding him in canter for a 20m circle and then around to K might be fun!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>K: Working trot<br \/>\n<em>thank goodness, breather time<\/em><\/p>\n<p>B: Circle left 20m diameter<br \/>\n<em>note to self, need to remember that, it&#8217;s a long way from K-B and we don&#8217;t stop for a fag en route!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Between M &amp; C: Transition to walk 3-7 steps, then proceed in working trot<br \/>\n<em>i still don&#8217;t like that, they haven&#8217;t given big, rangy horses like Tom enough room before the H corner creeps up!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>HXF: Change the rein in working trot<br \/>\n<em>yep, we can do that, no bother<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Between F &amp; A: Working canter right<br \/>\n<em>that&#8217;s another nice transition point for that movement<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A: Circle right 20 diameter<br \/>\n<em>shit shit shit shit, remember this: start the right-handed circle as soon as the canter has been achieved otherwise you&#8217;ll end up with an egg-shaped circle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AKEH: Working canter right<br \/>\n<em>just need to hold him up with the inside leg to stop him leaning on me, otherwise that&#8217;s a nice movement<\/em><\/p>\n<p>H: Working trot<br \/>\n<em>and another breather<\/em><\/p>\n<p>C: Medium walk<br \/>\n<em>a fag break even<\/em><\/p>\n<p>MXK: Free walk on a long rein<br \/>\n<em>this is tricky for a chap who doesn&#8217;t want to take the contact down and forwards, but we&#8217;ve been rehearsing so we&#8217;ll give it a fair crack<\/em><\/p>\n<p>K: Medium walk<\/p>\n<p>A: Down the centre line<br \/>\n<em>keeping straight!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>X: Halt, immobility, salute<br \/>\n<em>and off to change Tom&#8217;s tack for the fun part!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BE 90, Test 92 A: Enter at working trot. Proceed down the centre line without halting. Track right yep, we can do that B: Circle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}