Post by Lena Devine on Mar 9, 2013 18:12:53 GMT -5
lena beatrice devine.
TWENTY-SIX. FEMALE. TRAINER. STRAIGHT.
Lena's hardly a new face in the hunter/jumper world. She grew up in New York and started riding when she was just five years old, with one of her mother's friends. For a few years, the sport was just a trophy and a bragging point for Mrs. Devine, but Lena grew to love her ponies. Money and a very supportive family combined to get Lena well-known as a pony jockey, and so began her horse career. Lena was in every Pony Finals from 1996 to 2003, and it wasn't hard to see why. Lena was and still is a very dedicated, very talented rider with everything she needs to get to the top.
Her eighteenth birthday was bittersweet. Lena aged out of ponies, although at 5'4" and 115 pounds, she was still perfectly able to school them. She went to a community college and got a business certificate, although it wasn't much help. Driven though she is, Lena is rather absentminded and not a particularly good businesswoman. She's never had the need to be; her trust fund took care of that.
In any case, Lena didn't spend more than a few days classified as an amateur. Even while she was at college, she held a position as assistant trainer and continued her pony jockeying, as well as showing client horses in the professional divisions. Miss Devine wasn't a big-name trainer when she was twenty, but she quickly moved up the ranks.
Lena held the same position as assistant for four years before the head trainer broke his back and she was thrown into the limelight. Suddenly, she was in charge of training, showing, and instructing, and she absolutely loved it. A natural-born leader, really. She made a name for herself, and instead of taking the overflow, people were shipping horses to her to ride. It was one of the best moments of her life, when she realized that her lifelong dream of training for a living was coming true.
New York winters were not Lena's style, however. She had spent almost every winter in Florida, and it was just her style. After three years being based in New York, Lena noticed Halcyon on the market and quickly snapped it up. But of course there were some growing pains. Lena had never managed a barn, never dealt personally with the drama of boarders and leasers, and moving strained her nerves.
Along with Halcyon, Lena accquired her very first stallion: a Westphalian imported from Germany, renamed Priceline, and started showing him in the States for the first time in the pregreens.
Her eighteenth birthday was bittersweet. Lena aged out of ponies, although at 5'4" and 115 pounds, she was still perfectly able to school them. She went to a community college and got a business certificate, although it wasn't much help. Driven though she is, Lena is rather absentminded and not a particularly good businesswoman. She's never had the need to be; her trust fund took care of that.
In any case, Lena didn't spend more than a few days classified as an amateur. Even while she was at college, she held a position as assistant trainer and continued her pony jockeying, as well as showing client horses in the professional divisions. Miss Devine wasn't a big-name trainer when she was twenty, but she quickly moved up the ranks.
Lena held the same position as assistant for four years before the head trainer broke his back and she was thrown into the limelight. Suddenly, she was in charge of training, showing, and instructing, and she absolutely loved it. A natural-born leader, really. She made a name for herself, and instead of taking the overflow, people were shipping horses to her to ride. It was one of the best moments of her life, when she realized that her lifelong dream of training for a living was coming true.
New York winters were not Lena's style, however. She had spent almost every winter in Florida, and it was just her style. After three years being based in New York, Lena noticed Halcyon on the market and quickly snapped it up. But of course there were some growing pains. Lena had never managed a barn, never dealt personally with the drama of boarders and leasers, and moving strained her nerves.
Along with Halcyon, Lena accquired her very first stallion: a Westphalian imported from Germany, renamed Priceline, and started showing him in the States for the first time in the pregreens.
priceline.
SIX. STALLION. WESTPHALIAN. HUNTER.
Price is the product of very strict handling in his formative years. He is submissive, despite his testosterone, and one of the best-behaved studs in the area. He does, however, feed off excitement. At shows, Price who needs curtains on his stall walls to keep him quiet and not climbing the walls. He needs some lunging before he goes into the ring, and of course he's still young, so new jumps and new places still phase him. At home, Price is a sweetheart and a try-hard. It's a good thing, too, given his natural talent.
Price comes from Germany, and was trained there for four years. He did the 1.2 meter jumpers there for six months, but was really bad at them. He didn't have the attitude for jumpers; although he gets excited, he gets nervous, too, and doesn't like to jump when he's not sure of his rider.
At five, Price was bought by Lena and stuck in the pregreen hunters. He wasn't particularly good at 3' and showed much better scope over bigger fences. This year, he'll be in the first year greens.
Price comes from Germany, and was trained there for four years. He did the 1.2 meter jumpers there for six months, but was really bad at them. He didn't have the attitude for jumpers; although he gets excited, he gets nervous, too, and doesn't like to jump when he's not sure of his rider.
At five, Price was bought by Lena and stuck in the pregreen hunters. He wasn't particularly good at 3' and showed much better scope over bigger fences. This year, he'll be in the first year greens.
