Started with our usual x pole to oxer exercise to get him jumping. I practised picking which way I was going to go afterwards and getting the correct lead which worked well as long as I remembered to open my rein. Then we popped over a few SJ's, nothing big but Monts was on a mission and wanting to take everything on a long one which is a weird feeling as most of the time he wants to chip in short ones - wish he would make up his mind!
Moved onto a skinny brush with guide poles which he got me to trot to, then halt in front of - good as he tried to take charge and rush so need to get him listening. Then rein backed and jumped from a trot then halt again after. Then in canter and all ok so guide poles got taken away.
We did a little corner on a circle in both directions with a guide pole and he was confident over that so we then combined brush, 4 strides to bigger corner. Corner became a 1m triangle and he stayed straight and confident on the 4 strides from the brush although we did only jump it with the corner to the right so not his bad rein - can save that for another day.
Told to come at the oxer on the left hand side and I just didn't ride forwards for a good stride so he nipped out a stride away - he could have gone on the stride I had and he would have done had I aimed at the middle but he saw an easier way out so a guide pole went up and I rode more positively and we were fine. Then made this into a corner and had to ride it on 3 strides from the vertical before which worked well and he was flying. That was enough for this session but we clearly have a lot to work on with regards to accuracy questions still and there are bound to be many of them at Badminton.
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