Something for every horse girl.
The Gilded Horse celebrates the raw beauty and elegance of the world of horses - the places where sophistication meets sport, and tradition meets modern flair.
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Our TGH Story
There's something about being raised in the Horse Capital of the World that gets in your blood. Spring meant Keeneland, where going to the track wasn't just about betting - it was about tradition, about standing at the rail in the crisp morning fog watching workout gallops, about the peculiar poetry of the calls, about running into everyone you know dressed in their Sunday best on a Friday afternoon.
Summers brought rodeos, the excitement of barrel racing and the collective held breath during eight seconds of controlled chaos. My family would pack lawn chairs and coolers, and I'd watch, mesmerized by the partnership between rider and horse, the way they moved as one through dust and thunder.
These weren't just activities - they were cultural touchstones, as fundamental to growing up in Lexington as basketball or bourbon. With extended family involved in polo and twenty years of horse ownership between us, horses weren't pets or hobbies - they were family members, teachers, connections to something ancient and true.
Horses symbolize so much in our collective imagination - freedom, strength, loyalty, grace. But for those of us raised in Kentucky's horse culture, they're also community, tradition, the passing down of wisdom through generations of hands that have learned the same motions - how to wrap a leg, how to gentle a colt, how to move around these powerful animals with respect and love.
Our jewelry attempts to honor both the universal symbolism and the specific heritage of Kentucky's horse tradition. When someone wears one of our pieces, they carry a small piece of that with them.
