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Hello Barbara,
You might try "sacking" the horse. A cowboy at the stable taught me 
this. I put the horse on a 15-20 foot lead in a round pen and used a 
small plastic white bag tied to a lunge whip. The object is to worry 
the horse but not enough to make her move away. I started with moving 
it on the ground far from the horse on all sides then closer till she 
moved then dropped the whip, whoa'd the horse, rubbed and talked to 
her, picked up the whip and started again for 10-15 minutes per day. 
After 3-4 weeks I was running the bag all over the horse, legs, back, 
neck, etc then drop it, rub and talk. The result was that the mare 
would still spook some but not nearly as bad and if I got a little 
warning like a loud trash truck coming I would rub her neck and talk 
and it would calm her some and she would stay in one spot.
Don Huston


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