Schooling Vin this evening was both not good and very good.<\/p>\n
Flatwork.<\/p>\n
Within 15 minutes of commencing work he started headshaking.<\/p>\n
And the problem grew.<\/p>\n
So we took a breather, I dismounted, tied him up and got out the nose net that I bought the week before last.<\/p>\n
I had spent a little time preparing it and fitting it to size.<\/p>\n
It took about ten minutes to get Vin’s bridle off, attach the net, refit the bridle and remount in the arena.<\/p>\n
We walked for ten minutes, then trotted alternating reins for another ten.<\/p>\n
No headshaking.<\/p>\n
Stone me!<\/p>\n
Canter work; five minutes of left rein then five minutes of right rein.<\/p>\n
No headshaking.<\/p>\n
So we rode BE Dressage Test 102.<\/p>\n
It was a fairly good effort, but not worth a collection of 8s – which is what we’re aiming for, obv!<\/p>\n
The really puzzling thing is that headshaking is related to pollen – and the nose net is a pollen filter.<\/p>\n
But today has been classified as a ‘no pollen’ day on the pollen count.<\/p>\n
Peculiar.<\/p>\n
Anyway, having established that Vin’s headshaking is treatable (though it’s still unclear what the cause is) my next course of action is to write to British Eventing seeking ‘special dispensation’ from them, allowing us to use the nose net ‘in competition’ (if circumstances\/conditions call for it to be used).<\/p>\n
I need to get the rule book out to see precisely what’s involved; I have a feeling I might need to ask the Vet for a letter.<\/p>\n
Ho hum.<\/p>\n
B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Schooling Vin this evening was both not good and very good. Flatwork. Within 15 minutes of commencing work he started headshaking. And the problem grew.<\/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-569","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\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}