12/03/2025
Katie Ostrom brings over two decades of professional horse management experience to Trails 2 Rails.
She grew up riding horses of all breeds and disciplines in Washington state. Her first horse was a pony, Tassy. As soon as she was tall enough to open doors, Katie was sneaking outside to ride. This led to riding horses for neighbors, friends of the family, and local trainers. Soon, she was teaching lessons and riding young horses for others in the horse community.
College brought Katie to the east coast where she studied equine management and principles of riding. She also competed on both the hunt seat and dressage intercollegiate teams.
Wanting more horsemanship focus, she transferred to the University of Montana – Western. There, she was accepted into the natural horsemanship program.
From Montana, Katie moved to Maryland where she was a working student at Bascule Farm. Here she was immersed in the day to day business of riding, training, and managing of a large scale breeding, training, and boarding three day event barn. She had the opportunity to ride many types of horses from young horses to older difficult horses under skilled instruction.
Maryland led to Katie moving to North Carolina in January 2010, she managed a beautiful farm in Gaston county until January 2015 when she struck out on her own. Based out of Lake Wylie since 2016, Katie has built a lesson program to introduce riders to horses with correct foundational knowledge that only comes from years and years of hands on experience.
Katie is excited to help riders and horses of all levels learn to work together better. Her main guiding philosophy is that riding should be fun, even if there are lofty goals to be met.
Trails 2 Rails offers consistent, effective, and horse-centric training that allows a positive partnership to form. The foundation of this successful method is riding outside of the arena. With lots of land to explore and varying terrain, horses learn to trust their rider and become confident in themselves as well.
