If you take your Sunday drive to the end of Green Meadow Road in East Allen Township, you get to meet Kelly Knight, who owns Bay Ridge Stables. She is willing to take you on a tour if you meet her by the tack room - at least if she is not at a horse show.

“I’m out here most of the day,” she said of the job she really loves.

According to Knight, she jumped at the chance to lease the 44-acre farm when the old manager left.

“It used to be called Rhythm and Blues and that still shows up on Google. I changed the name to Bay Ridge Stables,” she said. “I worked here as a teen, and I knew the owners well.

“When you work in the horse business, it’s important to get along with the land owner,” Knight said.

Before branching out on her own, she worked in the Poconos.

Knight explained the emphasis at Bay Ridge.

“We concentrate on English riding etiquette,” she said. “We emphasize the formal horse-riding attire, the black outfits with helmets and crops. It’s the more polished side of the sport.

“Most of our horses are thoroughbreds that we get from the racing track. I retrain them to become hunters and jumpers. Racetracks are a tough business. If a horse doesn’t do well at the races, they send him to us … or when they get older and their racing time is over,” she said.

The thoroughbreds at Bay Ridge range from horses that ran one or two races to an eight-year racing veteran.

“There are a lot of rescues, and horse owners make a point of treating the horses humanely,” she said.

According to Knight, every thoroughbred carries a number tattooed inside its lip that can be tracked to give all the details about the horse.

“Anyone who violates the rules of ownership or causes a problem is banned from tracks,” she said.

Knight also runs a summer camp.

“We have an age range of 4 to 84 who attend the summer camps,” she said.

The attraction is that horse riding is so therapeutic. There are horse farms dedicated to calming anxieties. Veterans suffering PTSD symptoms and youngsters with temperament issues are proved to have benefited.

“We have horses for just about every situation,” Knight said. “Most of the beginners like old and slow but then move up as their riding skills improve.”

There is a steady demand for the classes.

“Some people want to try it when they get older, and they have retired from their active job. Others want their kids to know how to ride,” she said.

Bay Ridge also boards horses.

“I like to keep the horses we board separate from the horses we use for lessons. Thoroughbreds like to work and exercise … they are a joy to watch in the deep snow,” she said.

Knight will train a thoroughbred for its new owners. According to Knight, she can get any type of horse that someone wants to buy.

“Some horses like dirt tracks and others like turf … most tracks have both,” she said. “At Penn Nationals, the turf track is inside the dirt track,” she said.

“I used to have the trumpet call you hear at the track as my phone’s ring tone. Until one day, I was training a horse that I picked up from a racetrack. He heard that sound when my phone rang and was racing at 40 mph in a split second,” she said. “These horses love to run.”

Knight said there are plenty of horse shows for riders to show off their skills. The Maryland Thoroughbred Show Series attracts the sport rider. The series was developed to promote the use of off-track thoroughbreds as sport horses. Lexington, Ky., is the thoroughbred capital of the world.

“It’s a big-stakes game with people buying horses for six and seven figures for race horses,” she said.

To contact Knight, email bayridgestables- @gmail.com or call 610-721-1916.