Jenna began her riding career with a passion for horses at a very young age. Progressing through the ranks of Pony Club and the Trillium Circuit and later the “A” circuit she always knew it would be something that wouldn’t end at just a hobby.

Throughout the years Jenna has worked for many different sales and show barns breaking and training young horses and starting them on both the flat and over fences and continuing onto the show ring. Her first love was jumping, but later dressage became a new found passion. Jenna grew up North of Toronto and a majority of her early riding education came from a popular stable, Carson’s, where Elliot Stone also started his riding career.

Jenna then moved to Southern Ontario and continued riding with Jonathon Chestler, a Grand Prix rider in the 1990’s, at Southern Cross. After being a catch rider for many years she finally purchased a talented young mare in 1998. Her passion then turned to dressage. In 1999 Jenna started training with Heather Buchner, a successful member of the Young Riders Dressage Team and Cindy McMann. Working with Heather, who was training with Tom Dvorak, Jenna began to work her way up the National Junior levels in the recognized dressage world. Her regular clinics with Gillian Sutherland and Bill Challis were very successful in preparing her and her horse to compete up to Basic 4 and Medium over the following couple years taking many championship titles.

After returning from London in 2004 Jenna decided to take a break from horses full time and return to University of Windsor to study criminology and psychology. She continued to be involved in horses through managing a small boarding stable on the weekends and volunteering to shadow the head coach in order to gain experience teaching. Jenna found her way back to the Hunter/Jumper world when she was fortunate enough to be introduced to Jane Laframboise a Level 2 USEF Hunter/Jumper Coach. Jane saw the potential in both Jenna and her horse and thought that they would be very successful in the Hunter ring. Throughout the summer and winter Jenna trained with Jane and prepared for the 2005 show season to compete in the Adult Amateur Hunters. Everything was going very well and Jenna was quite successful at many indoor competitions in the U.S throughout the winter as she prepared for the Ontario “A” Circuit that coming summer. Unfortunately in the Spring her horse severely injured itself in the paddock and was not able to show at all that coming year.

Jenna later took a position as head groom and barn manager for a successful Grand Prix Jumper, Margie Gayford, at Wingberry Farms. Jenna and her two horses moved to King City horses and for the next two years Jenna worked along side Margie, her horses and her clients to learn as much as possible about how to produce winning riders and horses on the “A” circuit. Through experiencing all of the activities that are incurred in managing a show stable Jenna took every opportunity to learn even the smallest aspects of caring for and training show horses at the elite level.

Jenna was also responsible for the transport of all of Wingberry’s horses and is a fully licensed and trained “A Class” driver. While working with Margie Jenna had the opportunity to travel North America to many top “A” circuit shows such as West Palm Beach (Winter Equestrian Festival) Aiken, Atlanta, Quebec, Collingwood, The Royal and Spruce Meadows multiple times. Spending countless hours wathcing ring side, walking FEI rated and World Cup Courses, and talking and dicussing different scenarios and training methods with many upper level riders allowed Jenna to gain very valuable insight into that elite level of competition and training. It is because of this she is able to now share her experiences and knowledge with her students.

Jenna not only believes in a strong training program for riders based on solid foundations, but also on making sure the horses have a very specific program. She has had to opportunity to not only ride with many fantastic trainers but to also be involved with the management of equines at very elite levels. Because of this there has been much opportunity to learn from very experienced equine professionals such as black smiths, nutritionists and veterinarians and she is able to develop a detailed program for each horse. The success of each partnership depends greatly on how carefully managed each equine partner is. This allows each equine to train and perform at its best!