About the John Lyons videos..In one of my riding classes we watched one where he had this arab. When he started running him he was fresh, then all of a sudden he had sweat all over him. We all were trying to figure out how all of the sudden he was covered in sweat. Another thing we noticed was that before John was not wearing spurs, then all the sudden he was wearing spurs. It would be helpful if these trainers would be honest and just tell us the truth. The only video I have ever seen where there was a problem horse was with Monte Roberts. He was holding a seminar and this lady had a horse that took her hours to load into a trailer. He had the lady try to load the horse and he would not go it, so he took the horse and did his thing, and the horse went in. the lady was crying her eyes out.
Refusal to load is a really frustrating problem. I've been there, and made some of my worst mistakes there. With Bay as a matter of fact, when Bob had him, and he had a small older two horse trailer. Bay hated going in there. It was old, and dark, and too small for him. The more we begged and pleaded with him, the more we tried to force him, the more he ended up hurting himself.
I wonder, with the advent and popularity of nice bright slant loads, with nice wide doorways where you can lead them in and it's not quite so constricted, if horses generally have fewer issues about loading than they did 20 years ago.