@ShortyTheHobbitess: Yeah we are still getting there with understanding each other. I have done that before and tried adding more pressure to the outside but he doesn't respond. I will check his tack again and maybe use the owenrs tack and perhaps use a crop/whip for the next ride. I appreciate your help!!
@Verdana: I agree with the relationship part there, since I feel he doesn't fully trust me that the jump is okay. Its just different having to be this stern with a horse, so its something i just need to learn. Usually the horses i ride are not exactly push overs but they are a little older and much easier to move around if you know what I mean. However, he's not all that bad, i agree that we need some more work to be done, i set up a whole entire mini started course with ground poles and a cross rail jump so we can start slow. He is pretty predictable in where he will start heading but even when i try to keep him from going and using both my legs and reins he still is unwilling, I'm probably doing something wrong but i'm looking for a traveling trainer now. Thanks for your input by the way!!
Almost forgot to respond to your riding update, but I'm glad that riding is going well! I love when you sit a nice canter it feels so nice! And OMG those baby photos look adorable I want to take care of a goal one day. Her stink eye face is the cutest!!
@pianissimo: I am sorry about your instructors horse! Have you considered leasing? My backyard isn't the best place either mainly because of size but I bet a barn in your area must have a backyard fit for a horse.
@Hime: That's awesome!! You have so many horses now but i think my favorite part is that they are all related!! Truly something I would like to do if I had my own stable, just have a few horses that are all family! Thanks for the advice I will be sure to use it! It seems like shortening my inside rein and using a crop/whip are some of by best answers at the moment. It weird though because we've done figure 8's at a walk and he's fine its once we start trotting that he will get rebellious. He will also do it in an arena and start going towards the door. We started doing figure 8's around these two trees in one of the arenas and hes kinda fine with those for the most part since its on the opposite side of the where the door is but maybe ill start working in there for a bit before going to where the jumps are, perhaps ill just move the jumps to the arena (which i think i mentioned in my last post). Anyways, thanks for the advice and ill be sure to use it tomorrow.
Thats sounds great! I miss doing kids camps and pony rides, one thing I don't like about private barns is how little people there are. Haha little Feykja is ready to eat the big mare food but it seems like she is one hungry monster. I hope her hunger curiosity doesn't get her into too much trouble, and that her love for things that are not food blows over!
I am glad you got to ride as well and that the horse you rode was good to you for the most part, wish you could teach Cracker a lesson for me XD.
Two boarders(well, one of them is now technically just a leaser) who kinda think they know the best, but they really don't and misread horses. One of them and L are pretty much on silent war path(at least on L's side), as they haven't really spoken to each other in months after the boarder said she wasn't interested in L's advice or input in her horse's care. So L being L, got pretty upset about that, stopped even trying to really talk to this boarder and I think ever since she's been pretty negative about that boarder in general. Though now I also found out the boarder has been breaking the boarding contract by not paying on time and possibly planning on breaking it again in different way. -___- Then there's this boarder/leaser, who babies her lease horse big time and thinks he's just scared/uncomfortable when he acts up, while in reality the horse is totally playing her or reflecting the person's feelings. Said horse also has huge ego, which he hides really well by being quite reserved around people. He might not let you catch him one day and then the next no problem(he's always been bit fishy to catch, but he's improved a ton over the years). He's been inside at one place for couple years and also alone, but now he has randomly decided to throw a huge fits in his stall when he's in for the night or left alone. Then one time at least when the leaser tried to walk him into the stable he refused to go there for no reason. One point he also pretended to be oh so terrified of paddock gate(he's very respectfull of the fence, but this was ridiculous), he had to shoot through it when opened, if you got him near it in the first place. And most of this behavior started recently when she started to spend little more time with that horse. 
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