Still dealing with spooking issues due to light rays coming through the door, frosted mirror, and ice sliding off the roof. We have been working at stopping instead of pushing Saumur by the 'scary' object. He is actually now most of the time in a frame of mind where he stops himself!
Sandy had a good way of explaining it: Horses sometimes get scared of the reactions of the own bodies, the feet move automatically faster than the horse realizes and then the horse gets even more scared. It makes sense, thinking on how our own heart rate sometimes instantly goes up as an automatic reaction to an event.
This also reminds me of my earlier cowboy clinics. The cowboys always stress that you have to have control of the feet in order to gain control of the horse. Maybe chewing and spitting tobacco would give an added edge?
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