QuantumMark2 wrote:
I wouldn't put a second horse in the pen with this one just yet. It's a lot to keep up with two horses in the pen if you are not experienced enough. It puzzles me why he is angry going on the other lead. I'd stop cantering him in the pen, and just go to walk and trot work. You can build a mental connection with him and get him willing to go forward. Then you can work on canter. It takes a lot to make a horse angry if you are using gentle, progressive techiques, but you can't let him get away with kicking at you. Which is why I'd stop that gait until he's more responsive to you. If a horse just kicks up his heels feeling good, that is okay. But if aggressively lashes out at you, back down in your training. Otherwise you have to discipline him, and it sounds like you don't have the experience to do this. And give him time to get used to you and your body language. My horses are rarely angry. You might do an emotional check on yourself to see if he is mirroring anger in you. Good luck.

I agree..^..

JL,
Sounds like you've made the horse confused & are pushing it too much & it's not understanding exactly what you are asking of it. And when a horse starts fighting you, instead of listening, you're gonna be set back 10 fold in it's training. Go back to a speed it knows what to do & practice more at that speed for a while until it relaxes & is sure of what it's doing.
And when you do start loping it, lope it on it's good side first & quit as soon as it does what you've asked. Don't keep making it do it over & over ata faster speed. Let it think about how well it did it on the good side & stop for the day. Then the next day, go through the slower speeds again & start it on it's good side to lope. Let it lope a couple of times around & stop it. Then reverse & start over at the slower speeds on it's weak side. And only if it's working perfect at the slower speeds on it's weak side, you then ask the horse to lope. If it will give you a few loping strides & breaks into a trot, let it stop & relax a minute & go back to the slower speeds. You can quit for the day on this training or start once more at the slower speeds & ask for a lope if the slower speeds on the weak side are perfect.  
But I wouldn't work or pressure the horse to be perfect loping the first several times, & try for partial lope try from him. You'll find that each day he will start to get better & better. And it's when you keep making him do the same thing over & over, the same day, he thinks he's not doing anything right & is getting confused as to what is right because you keep making him try it again & again & again.  

That's when he loses his temper & will start fighting you...& you both are losers at that point...
  

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Last Edited By: HorseHawk Mar 9 10 1:39 PM. Edited 1 times.