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Trouble lungeing stubborn pony.

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I have a two year old, gelding. He's welsh x arab and is standing at roughly 13hh.
I bought him over a year ago and he was vetted, and we was told he had a stage three heart murmur. The vets monitored it, and two months before his second birthday they ask if we could lunge him to help regulate his heart beat out to see if it would help the heart murmur as it wasn't getting better by him doing nothing.

At first he was great, we let him walk and trot. made sure to do small amounts and then increase the time. We gave him treats at the end of each session and a pat on the neck. He was, walk, trotting and cantering on each rein, listening to commands, and even cantering on the right leg.
We had to take him out of work after his got a injury on his leg, he had banged it in his stall and he was lame for about a week or so. After we got the vet out and they gave us all the clear to start lungeing him again. but he wouldn't go on the left rein. He would bolt off, away from you, rear up and change way, try kick you, or he'll push into you and get in your personal space.
He is lunged with his head collar and a bridle, but the lunge line is attached to his head collar.
We've tried making him move his feet with the lungeing whip but all he does is run away, and it's hard to keep ahold of him.
After about a month into work again we had to stop lungeing him again due to him being gelded. But we kept him out of work for him to heal fully, and he is now on day turnout. I thought it was him being coltish but now I'm bringing him back into work and problem is still there. I don't want this to become a massive problem as I want me nephew to be able to lunge him. And not have to worry about him taking off because he's being a brat.

His ground manners are great, he knows back up, walk on, stand, move your ***.
He also knows not to intrude your personal space but even that seems to have gone out the window, but only with lungeing. Is there anything I can to make this less less of a task?
I really enjoy lungeing him, and I don't want to dread having to battle with him. I like his cheeky side but this is getting beyond a joke. I want to nip it in the bud before he starts getting dangerous.

Thank you.
 
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Definitely something to do with pain if it's only one direction. If he was doing it before and suddenly has "forgotten", then he's trying to tell you something is wrong.

Have you had his wolf teeth pulled? Dental could also be a big issue given his age. I would switch to free lunging using a round pen or an arena if you have one available. Get him listening to voice commands and paying attention to your body language.
 
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