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It was in the late 1960s that my mom was grooming at a horse show, and my dad (pictured above) was riding the jumpers. I’d like to think I was there in spirit, on that fateful day so long ago. It was love at first sight, and within a few years, they were married-- and then off to train racehorses. After quite some time spent in the racehorse business, my parents retired from racing to raise 3 kids-- and naturally, one of them (me) was bitten by the horse bug so severely that I just had to carry on the family tradition in some form or fashion. I spent my childhood riding ba****ck on Morgans in Vermont, driving Standardbreds around an oval, training dressage & jumpers with an old Irish coach, and chasing the dreams every horse-loving little girl dreams-- the same dreams I still have today (and I bet you do, too, if you’re reading this).
In 2002/2003, I developed Striding Right Stable. I focused on a h/j riding lesson program and ex-racehorse transition & sale services. I did this until 2009, before deciding to pursue degrees in animal biology and animal ecology & behavior. In 2016, I (finally) finished school, with a BS in Zoology and a MS in Biology. (I did my thesis research on bird behavior, which was a fun detour from training large mammals!) During my MS, I was able to work on patent-pending research and a paper from my project was published in an internationally leading biology journal. While I was in school, I continued to teach riding lessons, contract out my services, work with ex-racehorses, breeze racehorse babies, and diversify by judging, trying new disciplines (started eventing; even endurance riding), just to name a few things I did from 2009-2016 while I was in school. I also continued to work with OTTBs, my true passion.
In 2017, with school officially off my plate, I resurrected Striding Right Stable. Today, we focus mainly on the training & sale of quality sport horses. I use my years of experience, coupled with my rigorous science education in animal biology and behavior, and my passion, to bring along select horses, transition them from careers, and to match them with the best possible homes. I’ve been doing this for a long time and I have a good eye, and I am an excellent trainer for young Thoroughbreds, using methods I’ve spent 15 years getting right. It is the training I am most passionate about. I also purely love finding horses amazing homes with happy new owners. I also focus on the training & show of my personal horses (all TBs), and teach private lessons to students in our barn co-op. Most importantly, my number #1 top goal is to have FUN, doing what we love, and what we are all so fortunate to be a part of -- having these great, wonderful, beautiful, giving, intelligent animals in our lives, and being able to ride & communicate with them.
