Baile Hill Farm was founded in 2016 by the late Jessica Halliday. She ran her successful training and sales program, JH Eventing, out of the farm for 6 years. Jess named the farm Baile Hill due to her love of all things Irish (Baile means home in Gaelic) and Hill comes from one of her favorite trainers growing up, Randy Hill.

Jess was one of Lauren’s closest friends. The two met in 2007 when they boarded at the same farm in Groton, MA. Years later they reconnected when Lauren worked for Jess down in Aiken over two winters. Lauren then moved up to work for Jess full time in 2016 before eventually going off on her own. Lauren was with Jess when she purchased Baile Hill and still remembers the joy it brought to Jess to finally have a farm of her own!

To know Jess was like knowing a real life superhero. “No” wasn’t an option in her book so when she was diagnosed with cancer on her 30th birthday she did everything in her power to keep life as normal as possible. She spent the next three years continuing to work and run her business throughout treatments and time in and out of the hospital. She never gave up her fighting and tenacious spirit, and even started a non profit, Buck off Cancer, to help others who were going through the same challenges. By early 2021 Jess’s cancer had become terminal and she started making plans for a future without her in it.

She had asked Lauren and her husband Steven to take over Baile Hill Farm and her horses, knowing they would care for and love them like she did. On October 26th Jess passed away peacefully at the farm, with her loved ones and animals by her side, just as she wanted.

Lauren and Steven then officially purchased the farm in January 2022 and it has been extremely important to them that the BHF traditions carry on and they continue to love the farm as much as she did. Lauren and Steven are honored to be able to carry on the Baile Hill Farm name and business for Jess.