One thing to keep in mind with animal around electronic and engines. They can hear at frequency higher or lower than we can. Sometimes onset of behavior issues may mean issues which we can not hear. Some mechanics do have sonic recording equipment which can detect them
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That looks like the same on my husband got! EWAY V?X-B502
(Part of the model number is rubbed off). So far so good with it. We mounted a steel electrical box cover on the aluminum trailer wall to provide a spot to hold the magnet.
Nice! I got those heavy duty Velcro strips for mine. So far they are working really well.
It might just be that heās tired and not fit enough for the journeys. Thatās quite a lot of travelling for him to do with a clinic each day on top. People forget that travelling is strenuous on a horseās body and I think itās something like 1 hour in a trailer is equal to 20 mins hard schooling. Maybe just donāt ask so much of him until heās more seasoned/fitter and better equipped for weekends like that. If you need to do two clinics on a weekend, is there somewhere you could stay over overnight so he doesnāt need to go back and forth so much? You donāt want to make him sour simply because youāre over doing it.
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My QH was like that. He did eventually figure out that if we were elsewhere, getting on the trailer meant going home. Loading away from home became a complete non issue.
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I suspect this was it, or mostly it. Since then, we just practiced and ate on the trailer at home a few times, hauled out 10 mins to a park to eat his dinner and practice loading and unloading. He was great, right on every time. Practiced again a few times once we got back home. The following week we went and rode a few miles at the park 5 mins away and no issues with that either. This weekend we went to the 10 min away park and did about 6 miles and was consistently good with loading, though on the way home he didnāt eat much of his hay (seeing from the camera). He did poop and pee so that might have thrown him off.
We have a single day show this upcoming Sunday thats less than a 15 minute haul, the following weekend a two day show which we will stay overnight for (another 15 min haul), and the follow after the a Thurs-Sunday āadventure campā through my regions dressage organization so he will stay for the 4 days with that. That will be closer to an hour haul but I think he will be in better hauling shape for that than he was the two day clinic.
With the exception of the ride home Sunday, he just happily eats his hay while we are hauling. He is also happy as a clam to work off the trailer, esp since I got him a second trailer hay bag so I donāt have to fiddle with the one inside the trailer 
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My first QH was like that too. He could self load from over 20ā from the back of the trailer when I threw the lead rope over his neck and said āLetās go homeā.
Iāve noticed this with mine ever since she spent five days in a clinic (for a puncture wound just above her hoof). When we led her out of the barn and and she saw the familiar trailer, door open, there in front of her, she practically ran on board. It strongly reminded me of a cat charging into the carrier when allowed to at the end of a vet visit.
She is a little less dramatic after a farrier appointment or a trail ride, but I definitely see some eagerness.
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We just finished up our third consecutive weekend of hauling out and we have a pretty good hauler! All the practice payed off.
May 28 we went to a very local day show, June 2-4 we were at another very local USAWE show and stayed the weekend, and we just got back from a Thursday-Sunday Dressage/WE retreat that was an hour haul and he did great. He either eats or sleeps on the trailer and seems pretty contentā¦I LOVE having a trailer camera to be able to check on him.
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Great update. So glad things are working out so well.
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