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Sacramento attorney Kathryne Baldwin was born a self-proclaimed “horse girl,” and was able to start living the passion of her life at the age of 9 when she first sat astride a horse in an arena.
“I had always been obsessed with horses,” says Baldwin. “Every time we went anywhere [my parents] would put me on the pony rides and I would just say again, again, again.”
Her family lived in a duplex in a suburb of Sacramento at the time, but her mother and stepfather found a stable that offered horse-riding lessons and signed young Baldwin up.
She still recalls her first lesson, how she was filled with tremendous excitement but also trepidation. Already she sensed this was an opportunity she didn’t want to miss.
“After so many years of wishing for this opportunity, they put me on a horse and I just remember thinking, ‘I can’t mess this up,’” she says.
Not sure what to do once on the horse, she did the only thing she could think of at the time.
“I tried to sit up straight and be confident and really sell it,” says Baldwin. “And that’s really how you’re supposed to ride. That’s what you’re supposed to do. I didn’t even know that going in.”
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