But there were good days...

It wasn't all bad.  He was jumpy and scared of new things, but he was getting better.  We would have a couple of strides of softness, then have to restart the process.  My trainer even took a picture when we were having a particularly good ride!  He would still veer away from dead spots in the grass where poles had been laying.  And the jumps constantly being set up in the arena made it hard to school the way he needed to be schooled...but we managed.