Grasping at straws...

[Michen]

Give the OP a break. I was trying to help Michen yard hunt a bit in CO, and there's almost nowhere that offers the sort of pasture turnout that people in the UK expect. Everything is dry-lotted and fairly crammed in. That's not ideal for the OP if her horse isn't coping with it (I feel your pain; my old horse loved the North American system and hated the British one), but she's got what she's got. Most yards will either have individual turnout in postage stamp pens, or group turnout in small paddocks that would give you all conniptions. There ain't a whole lot of options.

Ontario also gets more snow than CO.

Yeeep! I do think people are being unfair on OP. It is TOTALLY different over here but.. 95% of horses seem to do just fine. In fact I’d say my barn where the horses mostly don’t even hack, but are worked very consistently, is full of mostly totally chilled horses. However I don’t think the situation can continue, and that may mean the horse isn’t suited to that kind of living and needs to be elsewhere whatever that entails.

 

[Maesfen]

likely this^ just again not sure why that translates to bad behaviour under saddle..

Possibly because this is the only time he can tell you he's unhappy as without this you wouldn't realise anything was wrong.