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hi, well thats the beauty of it, the groundwork and suppling excercises do help with the type problems you mentioned.  all of them.  i have used these techniques on lots of horses, some that had different problems, fit pitching, balking, refusing to cross water, buddy souring, rearing, etc.  after spending lots of time doing groundwork, including the flexing excercises, one rein stops, lunging around objects, etc., it all paid off, resulting in a horse that was willing to do what i asked it to do, obediently most of the time, and could work through problems when they arose.  it takes time and patience.  you cant do it 15 minutes a day, 2 days a week and really get it done, although that is better than not doing it at all.  it is better to spend 30-45 minutes a day, 4 days a week if you can.   i train lots of horses, all different breeds, mustangs, morgans, arabs, walkers, paso finos, quarterhorses, even draft horses, and it works on all of them.     ed kilpatrick, sneads, florida