Thank you so much for all the positive replies.

BarryG, I appreciate you taking time to reply and assume your tone was not meant to be patronising but having owned a horse for 10 years previously whom I had to reschool from reading books and asking others as I wasn't fortunate enough to be able to go to 'proper lessons' having learnt to ride from the ----that's the head end school of horsemanship I'm well aware of the pitfalls of horse ownership and yes i'm surrounded by others with horses who will support but have no experience of my issue.

I'll rephrase my question to "IS IS POSSIBLE FOR A TEN YEAR OLD FELL TO BE BROKEN IN "

As I don't know or have any way of knowing if he has already been broken that was my first consideration.

I don't want to compete, just have a good hack.

The day I stop asking questions is the day i'm 6 foot under as in all walks of life that's the only way to improve in whatever you do!