I'm not sure how old he is but he has bever had a "child" on his back. So he has never been a schooling horse. So this is totally new to him, although he has ridin with people on his back and with otehr horses so he isn't scared. The pattern is new to him, so he couldn't be board. She just said he is always stuburn like this. I am told to kick him reall hard but just can't bring mysefl to do it. They (not my teacher) said one kick and he will learn who to listen to. But I just ignored them and afterwords the teacher pulled me aside and thanked me for not kicking him as it would of only made him more paranoide and ready to go in his stall. She then pulled the otehr tow girls aside and said there comments were rude and that they should never kick a horse to hard but small nudgies are ok. We are not aloud to work off patterns as she is tryign to get us to learn these things. Last sesson, also my first session with him he was extremyl hungry. As soon as we got in the stall he took a big mouth full of hay and ate like a horse LOL.

Ash