Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Kyle Timm was exposed to the best in the sport from a young age. He worked hard to climb the ranks ‒ from Pony Club to competing in the World Children’s Jumping Championships and at one point being on of the youngest Canadians to place in FEI classes at Spruce Meadows. He competed in 2008 and 2010 at the North American Young Riders Championships, and in 2009 moved to New Zealand, where he twice won the National 5-Year-Old Championships.
In 2012 Kyle began working for Apex Equestrian and the Toma family in North Carolina, and for the next seven years learned in ins-and-outs of the business side of the industry, discovering for himself what worked, what didn’t work, and why. He was selling upwards of 40 horses a year, jumping at all the biggest shows in the USA with horses he could have only dreamed of riding a few years earlier, and had generous and supportive owners and clients.
“I learned an incredible amount and I had a great business, but that year I had two reflective moments,” he explains. He’d bought and imported a horse at a fair price from a friend, and competed it with great success in the six-year-old and seven-year-old classes. “I had taken the time to produce him exactly as I thought he needed. As a seven-year-old I had a great client for him and sold him for what I thought was a fair price.