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Currie Bailey

Winning 30 youth and amateur state championships in events ranging from working hunter to trail, 2 APHA World Championships in Pole Bending and Barrel Racing, 4 APHA Reserve World Championships titles in Stake Race, Barrel Racing, Pole Bending and Goat Tying, Reserve All-Around National Youth Champion, an APHA Youth Versatility Award, 2 Sportsmanship Awards, several National Honor Roll positions an countless yearling Lunge Line futurity winnings, Currie Bailey has learned from the best. Currie began her training at about 8 years old aboard a Palomino Pony Hunter. She soon graduated up to the highly competitive Paint Horse competition where she received most of her awards riding “Majors Zipper.”

Currie spent many years training with top trainers including Lauri Cummings-Blake, Diane and Rusty Paris, Terri Carrico and Jason Contreras. She started running competitive barrel races in 1996 and although she continues to show Paint Horses her true love is the speed of Barrel Racing.

Currie has trained top barrel racing horses and successfully competed in NBHA, American West and other open Barrel Racing competitions.

She is the active secretary of the local Pacific Coast Paint Horse Club, a club that she grew up showing in. Her goals are to continue to train quiet, reliable and fast barrel horses for open, youth and amateur exhibitors. In addition to training horses, she truly loves sharing her knowledge with the Youth and Amateurs through her lesson program and watching them become successful.

Currie Bailey is a Paso Robles native who in June of 1999 married her high school sweetheart. Since then, Currie has graduated from,

well respected, Cal Poly University with a BS degree in Psychology and has had a son they named “Cole.” Currie’s extensive horse show background and her degree in psychology enables her to teach the fundamentals of Horsemanship with the communications skills that are needed between horse and rider to become a successful team.

Lauri Cummings-Blake

Looking back on my 37 years with horses, my desire has evolved and become even stronger since my father started my riding career at the age of 4. Through my experiences, I learned how eternally rewarding riding, showing, and caring for  horses can be. After graduating from Meredith Manor School of Horsemanship in Waverly, West Virginia, with an AA in Equine Science my career with horses blossomed. I have been very blessed along the way with many great horses and many more great people.

My education along with hard work began expanding with such greats as Tim Whitney, Agent Dan Kenny, Sharon Steward-Wells, and Eitan Beth Halachamy; to training many youth and amateur horses and much decorated riders to National and World titles, Horses of the Year, Peoples Choices awards and state champions and multiple sportsmanship awards. Including Major Zipper and Currie Cassara-Bailey, Snickers A Smokin’ and Kate Bigelow, Backstreet Boy and Sam Managan, Icing on the Cake and Becky Bigelow, Sea Cloud Silhouette and Sara Asecnio, Park Place Bona Part, and Madeline Berry, Roy El’s Laura, and Cassie and Conner Cummings and the Morgan Stallion HVR Found Gold, to name a few. Bringing together Horse and Rider seems to be my forte. Some of these combinations started at the young age of four.

I was honored with the award in 2002 as Region VII Trainer of the Year Award, and served on the 2003 region 7 board of directors. But this does not compare to the incredible satisfaction I get in seeing all of my riders have fun and learn! One of my favorite teaching techniques is to use analogies and also I need to be clear with my students riding goals as a strategy towards success. Whether it be the beginning ride of a young child ready like a sponge to soak up the information or the much earned tears you shed on a World Championship victory pass, or someone just trying to relieve the stress of a hard day on a great trail ride with their favorite horses as their companion. This is what the dream was all about for me. Join Currie and I at our beautiful facility Laurel Wood Farm.