About Us

Run by Alexis Bradley and Alexandria Battison; they grew up with the same passion for horses. Combining their own sets of unique skills, it allowed them to expand their passion into a 501c3

Lexie has been around horses for 20 years but began pursing the sport seriously over the last 10 years. Lexie took any and all opportunities to further her career, and began catch riding the problem/difficult horses at different facilities, often working in return for lessons. It was with this that she learned the fundamentals for successful training. After purchasing her first OTTB with the goal of retraining for the Thoroughbred Makeover it was then that she realized her love for the breed and versatility. She began teaching clients helping them retrain OTTBs while continuing her own retraining. She put her passion for the breed on pause while she attended university for a BS in Public Administration with a focus in non-profits while starting up an equine bodywork business designed to help horses with sore and tight muscles, injuries, and basic maintenance. Once graduated she was able to apply her knowledge of non-profits to Shifting Strides which she runs while also working as the barn manager of Connecticut Dressage Academy. She currently has another OTTB in training for next year's thoroughbred makeover.

Alix has been an avid equestrian for over 20 years and a neuroscientist for 10 years. Having grown up in Southern California, Alix competed on the west coast 'A' horseshow circuit in the Junior Hunters and equitation rings. As a junior rider, Alix was nationally ranked in the top 100 riders in the nation and one of the top 20 riders on the west coast and she won top ribbons in the USEF National Junior Hunter Finals. Alix attended Lafayette College in Easton PA where she studied neuroscience and biomedical engineering, and was a member of the Lafayette College Hunt-Seat Equestrian Team and the Western Team. After college, Alix attended the University of Connecticut where she received both her masters degree and doctoral degree in Physiology & Neurobiology, with a PhD thesis investigating the role of synaptic proteins in inhibitory neurotransmission. While in graduate school Alix also delved into dressage and became a member of the UConn Intercollegiate Dressage Team. After graduate school Alix took a postdoctoral position at Yale studying Alzheimer's Disease and became a riding instructor in Bolton CT where she taught lessons and summer camp to riders of all ages and coached a middle/high school IEA show team. Alix currently works at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory where she is applying proteomic and molecular techniques to the study of neuron-tumor interactions in cancer. Alix also owns a horse named Kit Kat who she is training in lower-level dressage.