Euki Binns
Founder, Adaptive Development EQ
Euki created Adaptive Development EQ in 2019, as a way of sharing an educational platform that breaks down the traditional aspects of horsemanship and turns the training process into individual, achievable elements. In conjunction with the technical aspects of training, she puts a strong emphasis on the human/horse partnership in such a way that the horse’s expected obedience results as a natural output of the partnership process.
Her Racing Days
She brings with her an international level of riding and horse training experience, and has worked with some of the most recognized names in thoroughbred racing, including Frank Brothers (Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame), Elliott Walden (WinStar Farm), Starlight Racing, and historic Claiborne Farm. She held licenses for and was both a former jockey, assistant trainer, and racing manager for high profile trainers and owners within the racing industry. During this time, she had the opportunity to develop dozens of horses successfully competing at an international level, and hundreds successfully competing at the national level. She has worked with some of the most respected vets, farriers, and horsemen in the country, and several of the horses she’s worked intensively with have gone on to become top performing broodmares and sires that still today, are influencing the quality of breeding within the sport at its highest echelons.
Her Classical Foundation
Prior to her racing career, she spent fifteen years riding for Uldin Wilhelms, who was a member of the Royal Hungarian Olympic Equestrian Team, a former riding instructor at The Royal Hungarian Ludovica Defense Academy in Budapest, a former captain in the Hungarian Cavalry, and cousin and contemporary of Bertalan de Nemethy (United States Olympic Equestrian Team Coach for 20+ years). Her perspectives and knowledge of horses and horsemanship have been heavily influenced by the long tradition and expertise of her former riding masters.
She integrates her classical European foundation with many of the modern advances in stable management, health and enhanced performance learned through her racing career to create a program that always seeks to promote the excellence, longevity, soundness and mental well-being of the modern horse and rider while mitigating the often increasingly difficult environmental factors we must deal with, from overcrowded, urban/semi urban public stables to recovering from aggressive, seasonal competition schedules. Her techniques are further supported today by our ever evolving modern medical and scientific research, with new and complimentary findings and therapies always emerging. It is this matrix of knowledges and her active continuing education she draws from that allows her clients and horses to reach new levels of achievement.
Which Brings Us To Today….
Through her coaching methods, she shares with her clients this truth: that in order to successfully develop a horse through holistic, whole-horse methods, we must also develop ourselves to a high level of horsemanship. What makes a great horseman? Understanding of the nature of the horse, knowledge of its practical care (lamenesses, nutrition, illness, etc), and both a theoretical and functional proficiency in the training techniques we apply.
As a part of her equine wellness consulting service, a benefit of the “whole horse” perspective means Euki addresses equine nutrition, hoof health, lamenesses, injury rehabilitation, foundation retraining, career transitions, and behavior analysis with her clients. She coaches with a focus on overall horsemanship in and out of the ring, and trains horses for the proper development of the individual animal’s natural mental and physical ability.
When she’s not at the barn, she works behind the scenes with NBC’s and NBC Sports Network’s nationally televised equestrian events and also provides a broad spectrum of management consulting services to businesses and individuals within the equine industry.
Want to know more?
View Adaptive Development EQ’s Mission Vision & Values.
Other useful links to learn more about Adaptive Development EQ: What kind of training is it? and Philosophy.
And if you have time, read some of Euki’s articles regarding her thoughts on the importance of partnership, the beauty of “average” horses, and more, over at the Learning Center.
