Adena

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I grew up working around horses and competed at AAA shows, including WEF and the Sunshine Circuit, when I lived in Florida. I successfully assisted in training horses and instructing riders, and led group lessons with younger students, and adults. I both rode and taught english style riding, with a focus on hunter, jumper, and equitation. I have ridden some dressage and have a working knowledge of the basics, but did not compete or teach it.

Most of my experience was gained as a working student, where I had one horse of my own, and rode many more for schooling and exercising purposes, as well as showing some to gain them experience for future buyers, or their in-training riders. I trained, through clinics, with riders and instructors such as Greg Best, Tony Land, and Margie Goldstein-Engle, and longterm with Mary Lou Gallagher.

Instructing and communicating with students, parents, etc.

While I would like to ride a bit, just in a casual, slow sense, my disability likely means I will not be able to ride for the purposes of show, schooling, or training. My hope is to find a position where I can instruct and work with students overseeing their learning with the horses and helping to guide parents and riders to finding the right sort of riding/competing/horse ownership for them.

None recently. When young, I competed in the Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, in shows at both Tampa and Wellington, as well as many others throughout the state and east coast. Details of where I placed when are long since lost to time, but I had extensive experience in both large scale Triple A shows, and small local shows.