My horse paces how do i stop him ...

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I'v had him 2 1/2 years now and trying to do dressage but when i ask for a trot he is pacing !!! is so arrgggg .. may be he isnt cut out for dressage and only for hacking out but when i got him he didnt do it, had his back done teeth saddle reflocked and my instrutor trys so hard with him we feel like 2 paces forward 20 back
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When troting the horse would use the left legs front and back then the right front and back at the same time .. normal horses use diagnal legs if that makes sence
 
Ah right... sorry!

The only thing I can suggest is doing lots of transitions with your horse and very short bursts of trot. Does it happen the longer he trots for?
 
i had a couple of ponies that used to do this, use ground poles, both on straight lines and on circles, try not to support his head, ride on a slightly longer rein.

when your not using the ground poles as soon as you find he breaks from trot to pace walk/halt. then begin again, as soon as he paces again halt.
If it makes sense your not wanting to ride perfectly from the pace to the halt when he does it you want it to seem to him to be like 'No nono no thats not what i want.... lets try again' as soon as he gets it right praise him, do a little of something he likes, slowly build up the length of trot so he becomes 'willing' to do it for the praise and wanting to please you.

get the fit of the saddle checked again the reflocking could have moved pressure on to an area he's not comfortable with it.
 
Don't know if your horse is a Standardbred but I had one, lovely kind horse but as he'd been raced in harness he never quite forgot how to pace! He would canter but we usually had to go quite fast in pace before he would break into canter. It was a case of trying to re-educate him to do something he'd always been taught not to do (canter) and as for trot, it was just something he couldn't do as a standardbred is bred to pace not trot. Used to ride a trotter that had also been harness raced, wasn't so bad as she could trot, only trouble was she only knew how to trot flat out, which probably didn't do her joints any good! Fun though. Used to take her out with Point 2 Point horses and she thrashed them at a trot but they left her for dust anything after that!
 
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