Hi. I presume you're using a dually, Join up etc. I suggest you use the Uni ( as you don't have any accreditations ) to improve your body language & equine skills. You describe a lack of communication. Horses will always acknowledge other horses but your mare clearly values her own kind more than your company. You need to build a stronger bond. The acting out & ignoring you is a sign of frustration on her part - perhaps you are too strong in your reprimand in response to her acknowledgement of other horses? Keep us posted & we will try & help. Cheers, Jo.

We have already gone past the joinup stage (we have done joinup many many times) and this is just round penning with a rope halter on, free lunging. She does stop most of the time and walk into the centre, but it sometimes takes me longer than it should to ask her to stop as she's a tb, hasn't been in proper work for a few months and so enjoys to stretch her legs. I have watched many videos on here and read many posts, there's not much more to do haha. And in regards to her getting excited or anxious towards other horse, I suspect it may be separation anxiety (she tends to form a very strong bond with her paddock mates and when taken away can get anxious at times), but seeing any form of horse, she turns into a llama! Haha the back paddock horses were once near the fence line, this even once spooked her. I'm not sure what it is? She can have this ongoing nervousness about her sometimes. I have recently started desensitising her to whips (she was afraid of them due to past of being a racehorse) and since then she has quite need down quite a bit, but she's not afraid at all of plastic bags, or any form of bag whatsoever! (Due to usually containing carrots ;) ) she's a lovely little girl, she's not afraid of much. What are some unusual sounds and objects I could desensitise her to? She's not phased by hardly anything I use!! Haha

Hi! I think I'm right in saying as a TB she may want to run in the join up longer than what is deemed normal. She's built for running and some just love it! I did a join up with an ex racer I was working and I almost got bored whilst he was prancing around tail over his back! It took much longer for him to display the signs. Definitely 'dually up' when leading. My retired TBxID mare in winter used to take on strange habits and I had to use the dually in and out the field because as soon as you dropped the tape she reared up and galloped off towards her stable.(hated rain) Like a racer out the gates! As soon as she ran into the pressure though she backed off and just hurried next to me. My 3 yr old can also be funny if she comes in from the herd and someone follows her in before they then realise they're being left out and they gallop back off to the herd. Hatti almost combusts with the urge to roar off as well. I found it helps when I 'invite' her in from the field. She can be across the field and I am maybe 50m off. I call her, catch her eye and then drop my left shoulder away. Gets her every time. She connects it with the join-up action and establishes from the very first second that halter goes on that it is me who is now herd leader. So even though she lama necks she doesn't ever pull away or nap- so to cut a long story short try the invite technique when catching her- she may well then associate the leading with you being boss.
Desensitising- mr Herman the stick hand, the bag pole (lots of vids of that on here) and tarps are always nice ones to start with.