You’re lucky with Honey that you don’t have to uninstall show horse 
You’ve got a green saddlebred so she’s kind of a blank slate. I think I said this already (and I know you’re doing it) but praise works so well with these guys! They are so smart and so very people oriented.
I was hosing down the 8 year old yesterday and he was dancing around like a fool. Admittedly, the water was cold and what I’ve found with saddlebreds that have been in the show world…cold water is just a no go…but I was trying to keep him cool because our heat indexes are up to 116. When he stood still, I gave him huge amounts of praise, and he just puffed up so proud of himself.
When I got my 10 year old, 5 years ago, I almost sold him after a few months. Trainers were frustrated with him and telling me he was hard to handle and ride. They made me afraid of him, telling me he was always going to be too much horse for my broken body. We then went through 5 trainers to try to find someone to work with him properly and none succeeded. In the end, what he needed was me. He’s a one-person horse, and I’m that person. He dumps other people and rears for trainers. I can throw a rope off of him, jump, drive - anything I ask for he does. I’m not a woo woo person in the least, but I do believe that for this horse, he’s got to trust his people. He’s a bold and dominant horse, rides like a stallion.
When I got my 8 year old a year and a half ago, I struggled to like him. I mean, I liked him the way I like all horses, but he was not an easy horse to love. He had horrifying ground manners, would run you over as soon as look at you, and was unridable (balking was his particular go-to-trick). Now his ground manners are almost 100% (we still have the occasional backslide, but those are less and less), he stands in the cross ties, he is better for the farrier, and he’s been ridden a handful of times and we’ve eliminated the balking completely. Hopefully this year we can make his work more consistent and I think he’s going to be marvelous. Again, it’s about trust and praise. The 8 year old is less of a “one person horse” but he needs heaps of praise as he’s naturally a bit less secure than the 10 year old. He needs stricter boundaries, but still, you have to LIKE him before he’ll work for you. I don’t know why, but that seems to matter to these guys, I think it’s their sensitivity.
If you take the intelligence of the saddlebred into account, and almost teach them as though you were teaching a human child with lots of love and praise, they really will do anything for you.
Someone upthread suggested that they were too scared to ride a saddlebred. I will tell you that they are really the most trustworthy horses on earth. I’ll take my saddlebreds in a “scary moment” over my QH and Paint any day. My saddlebreds seem to think of their rider/owner and try to keep you up top if they can. My QH & Paint are like, screw you, I’m out!
