When I buy a new horse whose training is different from what I would expect in a mature horse, I just go back to the beginning and start over.
Remembering, of course, that I am now in my mid-sixties and wouldn't have bought an outlaw in the first place. Occassionally I get in trouble. Hunter, my TWH, is primarily an endurance horse, but he certainly could use some work in the arena. One winter day when it was icey on the trails, I friend and I decided to work in the arena instead. I asked Hunter to step over a cavaletti made from PVC pipe. That was my first mistake. A cavaletti should be heavy enough that when bumped, it doesn't move freely. Hunter dropped his head, took a good look, stepped bravely over, touched the cavaletti with the back of a front foot, whereupon it rolled backward into his rear feet. He leapt straight up and spun, still tangled in the cavaletti, then (now facing in the opposite direction) did two huge leaping bucks. He might have kept going, but at that point I had becone airborne. Helpful hint to younger riders: if you're 65, you should not land hard on frozen sand. Dumb DUMB mistake - sorry Hunter. It was weeks before he stopped freaking out every time he bumped a twig or branch on trail. Nancy
