Mikayla Young

Owner & Trainer of KJ Stables -

Westfield, NC -

Age 23

Mikayla Young is the owner, trainer, and farrier at KJ Stables. She’s 23 years old and her training facility it based in Westfield, North Carolina. Mikayla trains using predominantly natural horsemanship techniques but continuously has an open mind to various training methods and loves to incorporate new things to her program. Mikayla grew up on a small farm, at age five her and her siblings shared their first pony. Of three children

Mikayla was the one that 100% caught the horse bug! In her early teens she began exercise riding

Arabians for her neighbor, learning farrier skills, and started riding in both endurance races and competitive trail on her gaited gelding. Eventually Mikayla had gotten into riding all different breeds and disciplines though she now still specializes in starting colts and producing quality trail mules and horses. In 2022 Mikayla decided to challenge her abilities by opening up to train for the public and with competing in her first Mustang TIP challenge. That first TIP challenge she won grand champion, which really helped grow her training business and fuel the passion to gentle mustangs. Currently she is training both a mustang and a burro in the Bluegrass TIP challenge.

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