About me and my horses

Throughout the years, I’ve told my story with horses in various ways.

I made some edits to those bold text choices before submitting my 2014 college project. Below is that redone version. Although the video is a tad dated, it’s still true to my childhood experience with horses. So many of my major life events could be retold with the horse as a focal point. Adjusting to middle school, making and losing friends, my grandfather’s passing, boys, college.

Makes mental note that this could make a good series…

Upon moving to college, I had to leave Sterling home for the first year. I missed horses and riding so much that I double majored in equine science for a semester just to get my fix. It was wayyy too much science, but it did allow me to sign up for a colt starting class!

A year later, I found a place to board my horse, and brought him up to college with me. Between classes, internships, and minimum wage jobs, I didn’t have much time to devote to serious training and showing. It was the first time that Sterling and I got to enjoy riding just for the sake of riding, rather than in preparation for a show. Rides were primarily hacks, often bareback, and entirely for fun. It was liberating.

In August of 2018, I moved to California for a job with Blizzard Entertainment. Sterling stayed in Colorado.

Adjusting to the metropolitan lifestyle of Southern California was challenging. Traffic, people, food, fashion, lifestyle, people, traffic, did I mention how many people there are? It wasn’t long before I was yearning for a feeling of home.

I found that feeling at a barn just 30 minutes from my house in a smaller, older, more rural-feeling town called San Juan Capistrano.

Finding a way to ride when you’ve moved across the country and can’t afford to bring your horse with you is a topic for its own blog, but for now I’ll just say I got lucky. Not only did I find an awesome trainer and a friendly group of fellow riders, I’m also extremely blessed to be riding the sweetest Holsteiner gelding, Cuvée.

He’s not your typical lesson horse. In fact, none of Sara’s horses are. If you’re gonna take lessons with her, you’re gonna ride real horses, with real horse issues, and learn to be a real rider. None of this dead-to-all-aids lesson horse crap. Cuvée is honest, talented, a little stupid at times, but always a cuddle bug. ❤

And, that brings us to today. 25 years old and still an avid horse girl. I made it through middle school, boys, college, and moving across the country without losing my biggest passion in life. I think I can safely say that horses will always be an important part of my identity.

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