So I recently got a 3 year old Hanoverian gelding. I’ve known him since the day he popped out but finally purchased him.
He’s hater trained, lunges good, and has decent ground manners, nothing fazes him. Tarp, flags, saddles, bits, literally none of it causes any sort of reaction out of him. He just doesn’t care (zero reaction to new things, no bucking, jumping, spooking, etc. he just goes with it) Which is great until it’s not. He doesn’t move away from any pressure, he just stands there and stares at me.
We even tried fake legs on the saddle, he didn’t care about them and when we had him stand still while we swung them into him he just bit one side and didn’t care about the other.
I want to teach him to back on the ground/ move away when asked but have yet to find a way to do so.
Anyone have a suggestions or solutions I can try?
I’ll add some pictures of what he’s done so far.
Edit- I did forget to mention he’s an orphan baby, he never had any sort of correction from adult horses which I think has a lot to do with his unwillingness to move away from me or pressure unless he’s getting body checked