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6525 Schley Road
Hillsborough, NC
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Most often I tell folks it started with a special Rooster & a surprise shoe box of chicks but that may not actually be entirely accurate. While Buff the Rooster and the 9 surprise chicks played a major roll in the physical development of the Walker Acres program, it really began with a 5 year old and a horse obsession.
I started riding back in 1996 and for as long as I can remember I always wanted a PONY. I’m sure you probably know someone just like that. As I got older I experimented with different riding techniques and by the time I was 9, I was jumping and training as a jr. hunter.
I spent the following years conditioning and competing with a most excellent Riding Academy in Hillsborough, NC. while periodically helping a neighbor exercise their underworked horses. I later trained with a private rescue in Roxboro, NC that rehabilitated neglected ponies and sold them to loving homes. All through high school I volunteered for the summer programs that my riding Academy offered & as I became more and more reliable, my trainer rewarded me with more saddle time and more complex instruction. It seemed I would never out grow the horse obsession and soon found myself working at a prestigious miniature horse farm where I learned about the new and exciting industry behind MINIES.
In college I rode for professors that didn’t have time for their pasture ornaments and began taking Western Pleasure lessons that ultimately helped my own seat and leg ques. All those years I spent riding, training, & competing I never owned my own horse, though the little girl in me still wished for her pony. I began teaching professionally beginner/intermediate lessons on weekends for another riding program. While I was spending every weekend with the horses doing what I love, it never quite seemed like it was enough. Monday would arrive and with it brought the same sense of question: “what am I doing? I didn’t go to school for this. Is this really what my career is meant to be?”
