After all the show jumping we’ve done lately, I chose to give Vin a hefty dose of flatwork schooling on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
How brilliant it is to be able to school in total daylight – to leave the floodlights off!<\/em><\/p>\n The bulk of the work concentrated on walk-canter and canter-walk transitions, this being an exercise that Jo’s particularly keen on; it teaches Vin a number of things but as importantly it builds on his confidence and balance.<\/p>\n I got home that night feeling brilliant, elated; he genuinely tries, he loves trying.<\/p>\n We have a very busy month lined up for April; two cross country schooling sessions with Alan Noble, two show jumping sessions with Mandy, a dressage competition (P10 and P12 at Allenshill) and a flatwork lesson with Jo.<\/p>\n In early May I’m planning on hiring a local venue (probably Allenshill’s show jumping arena and get Mandy there to work on our ringcraft.<\/p>\n Vin’s first BE looks like it might be June – all being well!<\/p>\n B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After all the show jumping we’ve done lately, I chose to give Vin a hefty dose of flatwork schooling on Wednesday evening. How brilliant it<\/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-455","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\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}