Lope a little ways and stop

I'm having good luck these days loping a circle or part of a circle, breaking down to a trot, circling down, quietly kicking the hind end out of gear, and doing it over and over. Soon the horse learns to want to go slow, stop and rest. works better than loping them down all the time to get them tired. Really is working good on Fashisle in getting him to hunt the middle wanting to slow down from a large fast.

Hes weird- if something scares him he gets curious and wants to go to it. I had thought he quit guiding and on the new track he did but it was more that scary thing he was attracted to at the new place- finally, doing the neck rein drill in the circle until he responded- many many many times- he relaxed and got better.

Chilled him out just to lope in the hackamore, guiding with the neck rein back through the middle untill he succomed and chilled and relaxed and started guiding again.

Kicking the Hind end around with dispatch, hustle and demanding maximum effort

I think the cinch is hurting Whizzy a little, maybe thats why he's loosing his guide to the right- it WAS great- I've schooled him on that more than anything-but it went to pot about a week ago and was worse today, after being better, some, intermittently throughout the last week of hard training. I can only conclude that something is hurting him- changed saddles and pads mid ride and let him rest and he felt better-

one thing I learned while taking his hind end out of gear at ultra high speed- the fastest I ever demanded he turn on the forehand- learned that I have not really been demanding he do it with dispatch- settling for a step or two for a long time now. But today a rolled my spur up his flank hard and fast and several times, wang, wang, wang, in a row with a couple sharp bumps from the spur and he flew off that leg and ran that back end around the front end-

I've practiced kicking the hind end out often but not really demanded much- and now I realize there is a big difference and I need to quit babying him and get him as good and responsive and competent at the turn on the forehand as I command at the spin. So I'll be working on that after I give Whizzy a breather for a week or so to get over whats been pinching him or whatever. I think its the neoprene girth.

After turning him on the forehand with much more authority and making him really get after it and get off my leg I asked for a lead change- off of the same leg (right) and he beat me to the punch- so I know thats gonna help a tun with my lead changes. Another hole in my program exposed- Every-time I have hell and struggle through and issue- when I face it head on and stick with it and experiment and working through it I always end up learning something new and being glad I confronted the issue.

Drills

I erased my original draft. So I'm gonna do the abbreviated version. Drill, drill, drill. Fence the horse. Do the neck rein circle drill until the horse gets better, then fence again and repeat the neck rein circle walking drill. Over and over, same thing- fence, circle drill, fence circle drill repeat. Hopefully this will help with galloping circles but I need to experiment.

When whizzy wanted to look left, go east while galloping a circle to the right, so I turned him to the inside, sometimes kicking the hind end out of gear, but I ended up resting on the west end and he began liking the west end. Also he began wanting to slow down and stop on his own. Where as tuning on him had made him worse. I only galloped one circle at a time on him, sometimes two but mostly one. I really had to pedal him to make him go which I like, so I'm gonna start doing this in the middle, lope a circle , kick the hind end out let him rest, repeat, repeat, repeat. Until he gets programmed- sounds bad but it works better than just loping the crap out of them, tuning on them etc.

Also Im gonn try it more for shoulder dropping to the inside, lope a circle, spin to the outside and repeat it over and over and over untill the horse anticipates it and starts drifting the shoulder out in anticipation.