It began with a moment, a young boy meeting a horse for the first time. Roderick was four or five when his uncle brought a retired mare named Ginger into the family yard. She wasn’t his horse. She was simply the first, and from that moment everything began to unfold.

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No one in his family rode horses, yet by ten he was riding whenever he could, often bareback and guided by instinct. Then came Lucky, his first true horse. Together, they moved through the beaches and hills of Sint Maarten, spending long days side by side. With Lucky, a sense of direction quietly took hold. That bond gave rise to Lucky Stables, not as a plan but as a continuation of a way of life. Years later, another perspective entered the story.

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Alexandra, a psychologist by profession, has always been attentive to the quiet spaces where connection forms, how presence and safety allow people to open and heal. When she and Roderick met, their values aligned naturally. What he had come to understand through horses, she recognized through the human mind.

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Together, they grew Lucky Stables into Seaside Ranch, a place where horses live as a herd, move freely across the land, and where connection is felt rather than explained.