I am a young horsewoman who grew up on horse farms and training facilities across the country. I have worked with A circuit hunter, Western pleasure, reining, roping, gymkhana, English pleasure, dressage, and vaulting horses. I also have experience teaching beginner lessons and leading trail rides in a summer camp program. As a horsewoman I have experience, but I am always willing to try new thin
gs and learn more. My passion is helping horses be safer, happier, and healthier. While competition is not one of my goals, I have competed on a local level. I have experience caring for and managing performance horses in a professional capacity and through growing up in performance facilities. I have assisted vets with joint injections, handled horses for flexion tests, dentals, and other veterinary procedures. I am experienced noticing mild lameness, and I can effectively manage non-emergency health needs in communication with a veterinarian. Treating ulcers, multiple colics, laminitis, eye injuries, or rehabilitation under veterinary supervision is also in my equine management wheelhouse. Childhood Memories
My parent was a successful horse trainer and barn manager in Virginia when I was born, almost on the farm. As a baby I was sitting on horses as soon as I could sit up, and when I wasn’t on the horses I was crawling around the aisle ways. I was riding independently by age three and very frustrated that I still had to be in the lead line classes in the local fun shows I attended. Early in my life, my parent moved to a large scale Quarter Horse breeding farm in New Mexico where I quickly learned to read horses, from the stallions smelling a mare in heat to knowing which mares were going to give birth each night. I spent hours riding my pony and my mother’s horse ba****ck. As a seven year old figuring out the canter ba****ck, I fell off plenty, and always got right back on. Soon after, I moved again where I lived on an “A” circuit hunter farm and helped care for top quality show horses. This is where I had my first “training” experience when the trainer for the facility began having me ride the lesson ponies she couldn’t for tune-up rides, often after they picked up bad habits from less experienced riders. From there, my mother had a job managing and training on an Arabian breeding facility, where I spent my afternoons watching her work aggressive stallions in the round pen. With help, I applied natural horsemanship techniques to better my relationship with my pony, Dixie. At around age ten, my mother moved to the Chambersburg area to manage a large collegiate equine facility. Following the death of my childhood pony, I got a youth barrel horse who only knew how to rodeo. With help from my mother, I taught him how to go slow and easy as well as fast and furious. Now he can be ridden ba****ck in a bitless bridle through a pasture walk, trot, and canter.
