More groundwork...

Quick workout after work today. Continued with going through the barrels and ended with a calm jump over them :) Then after saddling we squeezed through the barrels upright hitting the saddle stirrups lightly on the barrels (that is a fear trigger for Poptart), kept up for a few minutes until he could calmly walk through both directions. At the end we introduced ground driving which he took to quite quickly. We ground drove the property perimeter back to the arena. He gave me a little issue when we passed the barn (not wanting to keep going, LOL!) but we worked forward through it! As I suspected he shows the same fears/problems with ground driving as under saddle -- nervous with rein pressure and transitions. I am hopeful continued sessions will help him build confidence with this which will, hopefully continue under saddle. And we also had our 4th session of rolling 'on command' at the end -- soon (or eventually!) I will finally have a horse that will lay down for me :)