A WEE BIT ABOUT ME

Hello all!

I’m Niki Baxter, 31 years old and I live just outside Glasgow, Scotland with my husband Rab and my two dogs - Selkie and Gremlin. 

I’ve been riding since I was 5, and began working full time with horses at 16 - starting off as an apprentice at a small event yard in Newcastle. I spent a year away from horses when I was 19, as I’d had a couple of nasty horse related injuries, and I worked as a sushi chef. 

I returned to the grooms life for a few years - working with a mixture of showjumping and dressage horses. 

In 2016, I moved to Japan for a year and I worked as a freelance English teacher.

When I returned to Scotland I finally made the leap to start my horsey freelance endeavour - Baxter Equine Services. 

I’ve always loved clipping and preparing horses for shows and was usually the one groom on any yard that got [happily] landed with these jobs - so clipping and turnout seemed like the obvious route for me to take!

My business started out primarily with clipping - travelling around different local yards - and it’s grown from there to include demos, travelling abroad, and creating educational content online -  

I review a wide range of products for a number of different grooming companies, make tutorial videos, and develop creative new plaiting ideas.