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Thanks to everyone that replied.  Jennifer and Ranelle -- thanks for  
the feedback.  It reinforced what I thought, that going 'in frame' on  
trail was too much, too long, and he needs a looser frame (though not  
inverted).  Glad I'm on the right track there.

The info on the Equus article is also interesting, and it makes a lot  
of sense.  I was already thinking along those lines - Caisson is  
perfectly happy to go around the arena with his nose down by his  
knees, but when he is on trail, he really wants his head up.  I had  
been thinking that it had to be something along those lines -- that  
he just couldn't really see well with his head down.  (My last two  
training rides reinforces that.  The first one was on mountain  
trails, and he would mostly just bob his head down, and then put it  
back up.  The second one was on a nice, wide fire road, and I got  
some very nice, round canters when I asked him for them.  When the  
trail got technical, he wanted his head out in a more "flat" posture).

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