{"id":3310,"date":"2010-06-03T09:47:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T08:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2010-06-03T11:01:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T10:01:07","slug":"a-hot-horse-centred-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"A hot, horse-centred weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brize Norton\/Witney forecast for this weekend is 23c and sunny on Saturday and 20c and sunny on Sunday, which is good and not good.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not good for me, because on Saturday Tom and I are competing at the Ascott-under-Wychwood British Eventing Horse Trials, in <a title=\"Map of Ascott-under-Wychwood Horse Trials\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?q=51.849176,-1.559983&amp;num=1&amp;t=h&amp;sll=51.867119,-1.56456&amp;sspn=0.027564,0.06403&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=51.849041,-1.558675&amp;spn=0.00291,0.006899&amp;z=17\" target=\"_blank\">Ascott-under-Wychwood<\/a>, Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n<p>But the weather would be great for spectators!<\/p>\n<p>The Badgers, the farming landowners who run this competition on behalf of British Eventing, have taken an extraordinary amount of care in preparing the venue.<\/p>\n<p>They have put up the spectator lines, they have built the dressage arenas, they have built the show-jumping arena and, down on the cross-country course, they have designed and built new fences, they have mown, aerated and watered the ground &#8211; and the ground will continue to be watered every day until the Event starts on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>There are 750 horse-and-rider partnerships taking part over Saturday and Sunday, which makes it a busy weekend with, if you are in the Oxfordshire area and at a loose end, lots to see.<\/p>\n<p>What could be better than sitting on the grass on a hot, sunny day, while slurping ice-cream and watching the exciting but technical show-jumping, or the thrilling sight of the cross-country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brize Norton\/Witney forecast for this weekend is 23c and sunny on Saturday and 20c and sunny on Sunday, which is good and not good.<\/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-3310","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\/3310","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=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}