For the sake of your horse and yourself, always remember to make what are the really important reasons for choosing a trainer or teacher as the primary factors, and don’t be overly swayed by the others.
If you can do that you avoid the pitfalls of your horse just learning a job. Instead, they learn to work with you and trust your ideas with every step. If you only teach a horse to do jobs you are only teaching tricks and they will fail you when the circumstances change.
Everybody has to work through episodes of spookiness. I have never met a combination that did not experience it. It’s important to recognise that shying and spookiness is a symptom of something else. My biggest piece of advice is to address the cause and do not punish a horse for the symptom.
