My 'trotting' issue is getting worse!

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Help I recently posted because my horse was refusing to trot in the school. Ideas came flooding ..thank you all, such as lunging me on him, working out hacking and tryiong a different school.
Well I know have regualr lessons on the lunge, absolutly fab, took him to a differnet school, might as well have had cement on his feet and now in our school he is so slow it is painful. No matter how hard I whip him (not that hard !!!) he refuses to move and when he does, he drags himself around.
I have had 2 instructors out, no one seems to have any ideas other than the traditional smack him hard idea. I will admit I am not confident enough to do this. I have had someone ride him and he is ok (not fantastic ), I have had saddle, back and teeth checked.
Now I have lost a close friend cause we argued because she cant believe that I used to do local dressage tests and now cant get trot and says its me but whislt I admit it could be me , probably is me, how on earth do I correct this one. Does anyone know or an alternative instructor style I could try or any other ideas.
Tonight I took him in school , dragged feet round for one circle , decided to hack intead even though I am petriefied of hacking alone and the differnce in his paces was even remarked on by a walker on the footpath ha ha.
Help.....
 
I am unsure how to vary it when I cant get him to move, I tried some trotting poles , walking over them first, walked over them and just stops in middle , absolutly no momentum at all. How else can I vary it please.
 
Some horses just hate going round in circles- I have one :rolleyes:

If he likes hacking - do that and school him while your out, make him work though :)

Get an instructor to school him for the first half of the lesson then swap over, but I would only have half hour lessons on him!
 
when the instructor schools him he is ok ish, when I am alone he knows and plays on it. I try and do 15 mins only to keep it short and sometimes cant go out. he is quite well rounded so has no feed, should i give him something?
 
Take him out for some fun. If all you want to do is ride in the school then clearly this is not for (or prob any horse to be fair). It's called boredom....
 
Can you get someone else to hack him for you, or ask someone to walk with you for confidence (sorry, I did not see your other post but from this thread I am guessing you have had a loss of confidence?)?

I agree it sounds like he needs some variety in his life.
 
Sounds to me like he is just fed up of the school. If you don't enjoy hacking very much that presumably means you mostly ride in the school? Some horses just throw in the towel - my Old Mare is a case in point, I only got her because her dressage rider couldn't get her to work in the school any more, she just won't have it. It didn't bother me, we would do any schooling on a hack or in the field, anywhere as long as it wasn't the school. Could you try riding in a paddock if you don't want to hack out?
 
Hack him for the summer. Give him a break from schooling. You can school out hacking but it just varies ita bit :) How about doing some XC etc too?
 
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