Welcome to Horse Illustrated’s weekly installment of the Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, offered in partnership with the ASPCA’s Right Horse program. This week’s adoptable horse is Queso! Check back weekly for a new featured horse so you can find your Right Horse.
Photo courtesy Hope For Horses, Inc.
Adoptable Horse: Queso, a 10-year-old, 16.0hh Thoroughbred gelding
Organization: Hope For Horses, Inc. at Advantage Horsemanship, Fredericksburg, Va.
Get to Know Adoptable Horse Queso
Queso – Jockey Club name “Fly the W” – is a really cool guy! He raced for quite a while, making 57 starts and earning $548,875. He even holds the current record at Gulfstream Park on the all-weather track for a mile and 70 yards. Queso came to Hope For Horses a few months after turning 10 and needing to retire.
Queso has been being ridden by advanced and intermediate teens at Horses For Hope and has even attended two different hunter shows so far with no groundwork needed. One show was in an outdoor arena and the other in an indoor.
Queso can walk/trot/canter but they have been focusing on consistency at the trot recently. He is a pretty chill guy that has taken everything in stride. He does have a trot with a decent amount of suspension, so posting is much more comfortable for you and him. He currently turns out with geldings and is the very, very bottom man in the field.
He stands excellent for the vet and farrier, tying, tacking and grooming. He loads and hauls great. He has not shown any ill behaviors on the ground or under saddle.
Contact Hope For Horses, Inc. today about ASPCA Right Horse Adoptable Horse of the Week, Queso!
ASPCA Right Horse
ASPCA Right Horse is the online adoption platform of The Right Horse Initiative, a collection of equine industry and welfare professionals and advocates working together to improve the lives of horses in transition. A program of the ASPCA, their goal is to massively increase horse adoption in the United States. To find more adoptable horses and foster horses, visit www.myrighthorse.org. To learn more about The Right Horse, a program of the ASPCA, visit www.aspcarighthorse.org.
