Hi, I’m Jenna, an adult amateur equestrian in Hampton Roads, Virginia. I built Stable Adjacent around a simple idea: the hard-won experience of navigating horse ownership at the highest levels of complexity should be accessible to every adult amateur, not just the ones who got lucky with the right barn community or the right trainer.

Connor is the reason Stable Adjacent exists. He's a Dutch Warmblood I imported from Hungary in 2023, an FEI horse who passed an extensive pre-purchase yet still arrived with problems that couldn’t fully be explained and kept worsening despite all my efforts. Kissing spine. Keratectomies. Compensatory movement patterns that took years to catch. Saddle fit that was making everything worse. Trailer loading that turned out to be a pain response, not a training problem. A case complex enough to end up at Penn State where 6 specialists across multiple disciplines still netted zero answers. Throughout all of this (and years of prior compounding experience) I learned that while it takes a VILLAGE, at the end of the day it is MY job to advocate for my horse; no one else will do it for you.

I built Stable Adjacent around everything that experience (plus more: the complex like ECVM, colic surgery, squamous cell carcinoma, ulcers, neurological issues, head shaking, and the ‘less complex’ like allergies, abscesses, Adequan, when to call the chiropractor vs the bodyworker vs the saddle fitter vs the vet vs the farrier…) has taught me, and all the tools and resources I wish I had access to during all that ‘learning’.

Horses are a journey (that I’m still very much on), but there’s no need to do it alone…