My first ESB horse

My first ESB horse is ESB Irish Legacy (Legs). He is a 16.2hh grey gelding by ESB Irish Descent.
Legs came with a few issues, such as spooking at nothing, panicking when horses came near him when he was under saddle, and has an exceptional talent for bucking! I got him in Jan 09, as a 12 year old. He had never done dressage or cross country before, so I was basically starting from the start. Over the past year I have mostly been working on getting a consistent rhythm, learning to take the contact forward rather than coming back behind the vertical, and becoming a calmer, more sensible horse when it comes to strange places (or in his case, the arena!) We have come quite a long way, slowly building trust together, and he has taught me to keep my heels down and how to show jump properly!

Unfortunately after quite some time training cross country with Legs, we decided that he was not brave enough to continue to the level in which I am aspiring to compete, and therefore it was decided that Legs was best off in a showjumping home, and he is now with Josh Dawes and Elia Lom, where he is going really well.