How to describe him

Rifle is what you would call a sensitive soul. When he does something wrong all you have to do is glare at him and say no then instantly he backs off and says sorry. He's the type of horse you can't get mad at when he's misbehaving or upset as it just make him worse. If you reassure him and tell him everything ok and he's fine or put him to work he calms right down. His base personality is very calm and laid back, but every now and again he gets nervous and needs something to focus on.

So after the endurance race I was not able to ride for 2.5 weeks. Wisdom teeth out, had to go to a flat track race ect. I am lucky enough to live about 1/2 mile from where I work and my boss is fine with my horses hanging out in one of her paddocks. So that day I decided to ride Rifle even though he had done nothing for awhile. Went out caught him, tacked up and hopped right one. We calmly rode down the street walk and trot on a loose rein, seriously I was riding on the buckle. With no exercise for 2.5 weeks and no lunging or anything he was totally chill. We passed goats, cows, horses, lawn mowers, big trucks pulling trailers and no reaction. Then of course he has to look funny at a overturned wheel barrow lol. We get to work and I decided to take him with us to the track. I load up the race horses and untie Rifle and he walks right into my boss's trailer which he has never been in, no hesitation at all. We get there, and he has been there at least 3 times before and when I tie him up he starts to panic. He paces back and forth and starts whinnying. I had race horses to deal with so I just untied him and threw him on the walker. Within a few minutes he settled down, stopped whinnying and just walked around. About 30 minutes later when the race horses were done I go pull him off, jump on and start riding around the track. We did four laps, trot, canter, hand-gallop and trot. He was not tired at all but that's about all there is time for before the race horses are cooled and ready to go. Load back up, put the race horses away, hop on and calmly walk on the buckle back home. Not sure what happened to make him scared at the track but all he needed was to go to work and he was fine. I love having a horse around that I can just jump on and go though. It save me a lot of gas money :)