4/18/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, gets stallion Gunners Special Nite ready for the Aquatread which is an underwater treadmill used to improve mobility without stress. Also known by his barn name, Bailey, his offspring have accumulated over $8 million in prize money as Bailey is a major source of profit for the breeding department.
4/21/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, and her intern Areyes Scoles, 18, assist with getting a stallion out of the Aquatread in the Rehab Center on April 21, 2025. Scoles is a freshman at Black Hawk College in Illinois.
4/18/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, wraps a horse’s blistered leg at the Rehab Center on April 18, 2025. Kilby moved from Minnesota in Jan. to start as the foaling manager but then became the rehab manager at the beginning of March.
4/18/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, looks at the timer while Layla stands on the Theraplate and an unnamed dog stares at her at the Rehab Center on April 21, 2025. The Theraplate uses vibration therapy to increase circulation to promote bone healing, hoof growth and muscle toning.
4/18/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, talks with her boyfriend, Jesse Ackerman, 25, on her lunch break at her apartment located on the ranch on April 18, 2025. Numerous awards from the National Reining Horse Association (NRHA) line the wall of her living room and lives on site with her boyfriend so she is able to deliver foals.
4/18/2025 Aubrey, TX -Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, pets Layla while she is on the Theraplate at the Rehab Center on April 18, 2025. As part of her job duties she is also in charge of making sure medicines are administered and tracks the treatments for the day through clipboards and a collective whiteboard.
4/21/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, laughs while exiting a trailer and registering a new client to undergo rehabilitation treatment outside the show barn on April 21, 2025. Kilby said this was her first time dealing with the registration of new clients as she has to survey the horse and its issues and receive instructions and its treatment.
4/21/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, reads the instructions and medicine schedule for her new client while sitting on a golf cart in the mare barn on April 21, 2025. Three bags of feed, two hay bales plus multiple bags of medicine were given to Kilby as she has to assess the process.
4/21/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, smiles while a pregnant mare stands in the spa which consists of water and epsom salt to ease minor wounds and muscle pain at the Rehab Center on April 21, 2025. Kilby has held a large passion for horses since she was gifted one at the age of 14 and would then proceed to step away from the competitions and focus more on behind the scenes.
4/21/2025 Aubrey, TX - Tom McCutcheon Reining Horse Rehab Manager, Addrieanna Kilby, 25, puts her hand up to a mares mouth while she is in the epsom salt spa at the Rehab Center on April 21, 2025. “We are putting so much pressure on these animals to be perfect and perform for us,” Kilby said. “This is what we should give back to them.”