My trainer had a couple of Hackneys given to him by an old guy who had raised them all his life and was getting out of the business. He told him that if they weren't flakey, they weren't worth a lick in the show ring. These two ponies seemed awfully skeptical of everything and everybody too. So it may be a breed characteristic.
Yeah - I remember that, and I started to rethink her temperament and wondered if I'd been overly hard on her prior owner.