Quick answer: Chrissy Walter’s story is about range, patience, and consistency. After 12 years in dressage and six years in barrel racing, the Illinois rider has built Sinful Sorrels around horses with different jobs, personalities, and stages of training.
Chrissy has ridden for 18 years. Her first 12 were rooted in dressage, which gave her an eye for basics and thoughtful progression. The past six have centered on barrel racing, where that foundation still matters in every turn, transition, and quiet day between runs.
Little Pepto Lynx, known as Lynx, is an eight-year-old cow-bred Quarter Horse mare standing 13.2 hands. Chrissy bought her sight-unseen and unstarted at four. Lynx shipped from Ohio to Illinois alongside Standardbreds and grew into a buckle winner with 20-second pole patterns on her record.
The interesting part is not only the result. It is the patient work between an unstarted four-year-old and the horse she is today.
Her advice is simple: “Consistency is key.” That applies to training, post-ride care, and the ordinary checks that help a rider know each horse’s baseline.
Chrissy also works as a PEMF practitioner. That professional role is part of her story, but it does not turn one modality or product into a substitute for veterinary diagnosis, conditioning, hoof care, or good horsemanship.
Bottom line: Sinful Sorrels reflects a rider willing to learn across disciplines, bring young horses along patiently, and keep the daily work visible behind every arena moment.
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