Really great ride this morning. Warmed up pretty well. His head was steady. Not perfect, but I've come to the realization that it's a work in progress and takes time. Even his owner has trouble with it and it's been 4 years for her. We went over some ground poles, and I find after I chase him around enough and loosen up his neck he is much better after. Forwardness is becoming less and less of an issue. I feel like we even rushed a few things today, which is an accomplishment. He gives me forward when I ask and is pretty good at extensions, but not so good at slowing down after. We need more contact. I give him some reign when he is accepting the bit, and the second I put any pressure on his mouth what we had is gone and his head shoots up in the air. We ran 1st 1 and it was ok, but s great warm up for the training test. He needs a lot of warm up to be loose and able to move his neck. And still at the end of our ride it was still tense. The chiro couldn't even do anything with it and was having trouble. But anyways then we walked down Harmon rd. With a driving horsey :) dru was really good and didn't spook once!