Welcome to SRS Horses

The mission of Striding Right Stable is to source and produce quality horses for sport and pleasure use.

 

My Background

My parents were also horse trainers.  My father rode in the jumpers (see cool photo of him in action in 1969), and my mother was master groom.  They trained, bred, and raced harness horses for 13 years following their show ventures.  However, they exited the industry to raise children.  One of those kids was me. I was happy to pull out their old Crosby and Passier from the basement, gaze starry-eyed at all the photos of winning racehorses, and firmly put myself in with their old horse trainer friends, who patiently allowed me to accompany them to racetracks and stay the summers, visit the stables nextdoor, and see if I could hang on.  (I did!)

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As a youth, I received a well-rounded education in everything from racehorses to hunter/jumper to dressage to low-level eventing to morgan horses to driving to breaking ponies.  As an adult, I breezed racehorses, broke horses to both English and Western, worked for US Pony Club, ran a lesson program, retrained exracehorses, got relative college degrees and went to grad school, rode endurance horses.  My interests have always centered around animal training, behavior, and biology.  

 

I started Striding Right Stable (SRS) in 2002/2003, originally to find new homes for retiring racehorses (thoroughbreds) and teach riding lessons.  At the time, there weren't the resources there are today for "ottbs".  I bought them off the track, trained them for a new career, and found them a new home-- a practice that is now very common today.  I enjoyed the diversity of the TB, and the people I met along the way who were looking for young quality sport prospects.  I also worked with ponies and the occasional crossbred or QH type.  We would use them in the lesson program, for summer camp, or for horse showing.

 

After 7 years, I decided to return to school to work on my education and interests in animal biology.  I then got a BS in Zoology (OSU) and an MS in Biology (William & Mary), where I studied animal ecology and behavioral ecology.  My thesis project was the pilot study for investigating how directional sound can help save birds from flying into things, a project which was later funded by the state of Virginia for 100K for continued research.

 

Presently, I specialize in the selection and production of high quality horses for sport and personal use in a very thoughtful and well-developed program.  I use my years of experience, education, and expertise to bring you the best horses out there, produce them for their talents, and offer them to the public with details and efforts made to assist buyers in their shopping process. Many of the horses in my program are shown on the sales page of our website, and each week their progress and work is shown on videos featured on our Facebook page (all listed on our Contact Us page).