Hesa 2 year old Quarter Horse

This is a pretty talented gelding. Hesa Came to me pretty much the same as Georgia, saddled and bridled but not ridden. His ground manners were good, but he was bit errogant. He was mean to the gelding I had him in with, hard to catch, hard to lead, etc. Once I got him in the round corral he was fine. He needed to be humbled a little and start to work. I would saddle Hesa first thing in the morning and use him to lead my other horses up out of the pastures and then lead them out. When I wasn't riding him I would lead him to water and then tie him up, he was pretty tired at the end of the day. When I turned him out at night I put him in with a filly that was a liitle visious towards geldings, and by the morning he was begging to be caught. The gelding seemed to walk, trot, canter naturally, but he was spooky! I worked him the opposite of Georgia, he needed more hacking and long rides. His flat work came natural so getting him over his spookiness was what he needed. Hesa liked to look for things to spook at, this told me he needed a jod as Georgia did. The difference between his spook and Georgia's spook is Hesa's was created out of bordem and Georgia's was almost taught to her in away. It took a couple of weeks to get him to quit looking and relax, after that Hesa just became easy. Even after he got over his spookiness I still just took him on long rides and doing just a little flat work with him. This is a nice gelding and handling comes natural to him, he needs to learn to realx and enjoy being rode.

Hesa is just about at the end of his 60 days and will be turned out for the winter. The owner is sending him back in the spring for about 30-60 days befoe he goes off to be finished as a barrel horse.