apprehensive

The last time I rode Tonto he spooked at every jump, I ended up falling off. So I did not look forward to a repeat performance. I tried to bribe him with polos, before the lesson.
Everything was going well in the lesson, we jumped some single jumps & a double a few times without any trouble. When a 3rd jump was added to turn the double into a treble, Tonto seemed to see a ghost, eventually we got over all elements, but it wasn’t pretty the 1st time.