About

Emma Turner founded Emma Lee Horsemanship back in 2019. She began training with the intention of helping rescue horses become someone’s dream horse. Since then, she has dedicated herself to learning everything she can about equine behavior, relationships, psychology, and welfare.

Emma grew up in Orange, California in a family with no horse experience. She begged her mother for lessons at 8 and hasn't stopped riding since! She started off riding western, switched to English in middle school, and a few years later, competed in her first shows and began jumping as well.

Background

After graduating from high school, Emma took a break from showing and adopted her first horse: an older mare who had been seized by law enforcement officers from a neglect case. Rose had sat scared and untrusting for several months before Emma came to her rescue. Not knowing that this was the beginning of her future career, she brought the skinny mare back to her barn and began her rehabilitation journey.

Emma (and Rose) then moved to Arizona in 2018 to attend the University of Arizona where she majored in Animal Science with an emphasis in Equine. During her time in school, she worked with several Arabians in the Al-Marah Arabian breeding program as well as Thoroughbreds in the university's Race Track Industry program. Classes covered everything from nutrition, to marketing, law, and training yearlings.

Emma also spent some time working as a wrangler for a nearby dude ranch. With almost 200 horses on the ranch during peak season, she got a crash course in training a variety of horses of different ages, sizes, breeds, and experience level. After her time at the ranch, Emma changed her training methods to focus on welfare-centered practices, sparking her drive to share this new knowledge with the world.

Vision

Now, her goal for Emma Lee Horsemanship is to help improve relationships between horses and their owners. ELH's mission is to train not only the horse, but the human the horse relies on as well. So much of horse training is about consistency, environment, nutrition, and body language, that Emma feels it is necessary to pass on as much of her knowledge to her clients as possible. Oftentimes, trainers forget to talk about principles, but, if you figure out the principles of your horsemanship, you can figure out the solution to any problem.

Emma is the kind of person who will never stop learning. She is constantly seeking new research related to horse-care and her vision is to be the catalyst that ignites the progress within the equine industry. Right now, she is actually working towards becoming certified in Equine Massage Therapy to help horses even more! Stay tuned for more updates :)