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I asked him to keep moving forward and after about three pretty good bucks followed by three or four very choppy and unbalanced strides, he lined out into a fast but fairly relaxed lope. This took me by surprise a little, as Cooper hadn’t shown even the slightest inclination to get upset about anything during the two months we’d owned him. To have him come uncorked like he did was completely out of character, and while I was pretty sure we had taken care of all his physical issues, my first thought was that something physical must be bothering him.

When we slowed from the fast but relatively relaxed lope into a nice relaxed trot, Cooper acted as if nothing at all out of the ordinary had just happened. We made another lap around the arena in that relaxed trot and as soon as I started to think about loping, like before, his back immediately got tight, he jumped into the lope and then went to bucking again. Just like the first transition, he let out three pretty good bucks, took another three or four choppy, unbalanced strides, then lined out into a relaxed lope as if nothing had happened.