Learn everything you can Lisa! You can still help horses by volunteering etc or advocating Rescue horses. Or is there a RDA near you?
I broke my back and lower pelvis, and when starting to ride again tore my shoulder tendon. My two horses – Sol I have had for11yrs, and Splash I have had since she was 18 mths and now 6 years, I am training up for a bash at the local Rodeo in Barrel Racing.
No excuse if you have a trusty horse!
GET BACK ON!

I have the same problem, but if you can put one horse in a safe area while you ride the other, then swap and ride the other the same day, and swap over each horse you ride each day first. Don’t panic, they will get used to it, and the bonus is, the one going off, you don’t have to ride so long to get fit!

3 yrs ago I had to halter train an 18 mth small filly in 2 days to take into a 2 horse trailer/float, had never been touched. We did with her mother with little trouble. The people picking her up bred small ponies, but the husband came to get them, it was his wife mainly, although he and his son were good with them. But I had to tell them how to get her on.
When she pulls back, hold on, when she stops, loosen.
So with that we got her on the Float with her .
Take your Time!
No whips or ropes involved!

You have to use some judgment here. If every time they really throw a fit, you put them back together, you may be training them to throw a bigger fit. The key to success is to just keep getting the “out of sight time” longer and longer. When you bring the “out” horse back into vision, don’t put them back together right away.
You can eventually start leaving them apart overnight, etc. Eventually you just start doing what you want when you want. You will have to bite the bullet and be tough about what you are trying to accomplish, or they will win out. Just do it enough that you can start using them the way you want to. It’s irritating to have them throwing a fit, but you can work through it.

I hope this helps. Larry

Shelly L.

We tried the food with my girl before the previous stated method. As my horse is not food oriented, she didnt comply with our asking to go in the trailer, even if she knew shed get grain. The whip isnt used as a whip. Its used as an extentsion of the hand so you can use “back pressure” to ask your horse to go into the trailer while also holding the lead rope. Of course, if your horse has “black stallion” fear of a whip, then you should desensatise them first.