Milo : (3 year old sorrel Quarter Horse) Caught fairly easy, walks on a lead fairly easy, a little drag behind in his efforts. Got him in the round pen and was going to attempt doing some round pen work of free lunging him for possible join up and he spent the entire time running around the pen pushing into the rails trying to find a weak spot to push over...when that didn't work he decided to just jump over the gate and say "bye bye"...
Mick: (4 year old bay Quarter Horse) Went down to were they were all hanging out & and Jeanne actually caught Mick as he is very cautious to new people...also recaught Mr. Milo and we all walked up to the round pen. Mick went in the pen & Milo got tied up outside. Slipped Micks halter off to replace it with a rope haulter and he did a little running around at liberty without a halter. I caught him with some issues and put on the rope halter. Did a little leading and he did great. He lowered his head and relaxed with me a bit...his left side is much stronger than his right...and we got rolling on some free lunge and he did great. He is a little nervous to things like rope, ect. Rubbed the rope all over him and he seemed to calm down. Could change directions with him easily but he too tried to jump the gate and escape. So I put him on the lunge and got him to stop and face me just a couple times. Got him to also turn in towards me a couple times on free lunge but when I offered to join up he would have no part of it and would take off again....thats ok...today was kinda a day to introduce ourselves and get comfortable...a kinda orientation if you will. He displays an almost natural "collection" to his stride and will make a great "western pleasure" or even english prospect as his strides are very balanced and quite animated...really gorgeous animal. Although he is timid that is only to be expected...I predict he is going to be very responsive under saddle and as long as we teach him that no boogey man is coming to eat him up...he will be just fine...took him out of the round pen and set him free...was able to remove halter without him giving any anxious issues to be free...stood quite still and when released calmly walked away (no parting shots).
Milo again...Milo is VERY confident...not like the overly confident jerk type...he just seems to be like a horse that wouldn't move if firecrackers were going off around him while a marching band was going by. He just doesn't care about to much or doesn' seem to get to excited about much. His left side too is much stronger than the right. Ok so after our first round in the pen and Milo clearly can jump right out of the round pen with no problem I attached him to a lunge line and proceeded to try...and I stress TRY...to lunge him...lol...I have NEVER seen a 4 year old horse that is "unbroke" so dead broke to stimulus! I cracked the whip...again and again...I beat the ground...I ran around like a crazy lady...NOTHING even made him flinch...he just stood there relaxed as could be...back leg cocked in relaxation looking at me like I was an absolute idiot...Jeanne took over as she has more experience with Mr. Milo...and she used the stiff part of the lunge whip to tap him on the rump while motioning him forward with lots of slack so he had room to move off the pressure...guess what he moved for her...he wouldn't move in a circle...but he did move so baby steps are better than no steps...she told me to take over and again he was a mule for me...got some movement out of him but my habit is to try to turn them in a circle and I just couldn't keep behind his drive line...we could move forward but the slightest hint of a circle and all momentum stopped. He would turn and turn and turn his hind quarters like a champ and around and around we went :) Next we brought in the riding block to see if maybe being as steadfast about stimulus he would just accept weight on his back. So Jeanne held him while I laid across his back...at first he started to fidget a little and I patted his opposite side I slowly released my weight onto his back and guess what...he didn't care for it and moved :) Not exactly what we wished would happen but at least we found something that agitates him enough to get him moving a bit...We went back to something he can do well leading (although he does drag behind) and then ended the little session on a positive note. He is going to be a wonderful level headed mount for someone because he just has no "spook" factor. Sounds, movement, ropes, whips, crazy women, nothing bothers him...he is going to be well suited for a trail horse or even maybe a competition horse.
These horses are available for adoption at Horse Haven Hollow here in Pleasants County WV...for more information on adoption or other available horses please visit http://www.horsehavenhollow.org/
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