I had a lot of help developing a business primarily concerned with providing English style saddles to the front range of Colorado. It has gone through many evolutions since it’s 1997 origin. The specialty service of fitting those saddles to the horse/rider team and maintaining service on those saddles are paramount to keeping horses and riders safe and comfortable.
About Community. I am fourth generation Colorado resident with deep roots in the horse community. That community is a family, especially as I often work now with the second generation of equestrian clients.
Some know that I was born with a congenital hip disorder that made walking impossible and childhood motor skills difficult. I was in a full cast from the waist to the knee from infancy to three years old and a case study in Children’s Hospital in Denver. My wonderful parents relented to my instant attraction to horses and got me on horses before I could walk. The horses became my legs. They became my ability to be mobile. They became my strength. As I have battled a multitude of surgeries throughout my life, the horses have never failed me. I owe them gratitude, each one of them.
About my Education. Riding bareback, then western in Westernaires and backcountry riding, I found the saddles hurt my legs and switched to English riding, first trying my hand at eventing and then becoming a classical dressage rider. My many wonderful horses taught me along the way. Saddles and the way they fit the horses was impossible to adequately learn about in the United States when I started so I petitioned the Society of Master Saddlers in the United Kingdom. They accepted me into their first class for Overseas Fitters in 2002. That became my basis, my educational roots and from that I have added classwork from the UK and the US. I am a perpetual student and ever curious.
Saddle style and balance makes a huge difference for the rider and many of my clients have physical issues that have to be addressed in order for them to be effective and without pain. I have firsthand experience with that aspect and learn more each day with every horse/rider pair.
I am also a lifetime artist. Horses and art often go together. I am now allowing more time to develop the artist in me. I am also developing as an educator as I try to pass on some of the tried and true information which is the crux of my business. It is impossible to express how enormously gratifying this labor of love has been.
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