Horse running into stall

Question
I have a 4yo Standardbred gelding racehorse that likes to run into his stall full
speed. It gets dangerous because no matter what you do he wont stop. He
has broken through two wood stall doors trying to teach him. He was fine
when I bought him about most things, very calm and sensible. He was
spooked one day leaving the barn to go out to jog and he ran into the blade
end of the manure spreader and ripped his shoulder open, broke up the jog
cart, and ran around the track with the broken off wood shafts still attached
to the harness,  bouncing up and stabbing him in the legs and stifles for 25
minutes until we could get him stopped. He is all healed up and back jogging
now, but he is very flighty now. He wants to run out of the barn before
jogging, and worse yet run into the stall. I have tried to confuse him and
make him think that were not going to the stall and I have tried to blindfold
him, but that only slowed him down for about 3 days. It is dangerous, and I
don't want him or anybody else to get hurt. I haven't raised my voice to him
or been rough with him to teach him in fear of making the problem worse if
he loses any more trust. Please give me some insight into the problem if you
can. Thank you.

Answer
Hi Alex!

I would like to ask you a few questions before I give you any training recommendations.

When you say "I haven't raised my voice to him or been rough with him to teach him"....what EXACTLY do you mean by that?  Be precise.  Have you never put a stud chain over his nose, shanked him hard and yelled "NO!".  Have you never used a crop on him to correct him?  Tell me how you do control him.

By just what you said here (and I do need more info) I would say may have a true "Helen Keller" situation.  Ever seen the movie?  Helen was deaf, dumb and blind and running around filthy and OUT-OF-CONTROL in a lovely middle class home and they just ignored her because they were afraid disciplining her would "hurt her"....and they were kind of afraid of her too because she lashed out when she did not get what she wanted.  Sound familiar?

Lastly, I had a totally blind Standardbred pacer (from a trailering accident) off the track who came to me in the same condition as yours is now.  In fact, barreling into his stall was a huge problem when he first came to me.
While it was hard for me to do it, I had to treat him like any other overbearing, pushy horse and train him to my rules.  Yes, I had to resort to a crop now and again but, he understood it and learned to obey me for his safety as well as everyone else's.  I had to be extra vigilant with him, extra disciplined 100% of the time to make sure he never forgot it and to keep his training on him.  He was perfect in turnout and taught himself the pasture and even acquired a protective buddy.  He is gone now but, he taught me more than I ever taught him.

Solange