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and course walking both require personal attention, and doing both simultaneously is a nearly impossible feat. She laughingly explains, “I was at Blenheim in San Juan Capistrano. It was a conference call with other counsel and our discovery/settlement judge. Due to a delay in the class walk I either had to walk while participating in the call or skipping the walk completely so I thought I could multi task, which proved difficult especially not letting everyone on the call know I was at a horse show trying to walk lines and listen to my trainer Mark Bone while arguing the issues at hand with other callers. I try to not schedule conference calls so close to my class times now.” Finding time to balance work and any sport is difficult. Show jumping
in particular is such a mental and physical sport, it is imperative to be completely engaged in the task presented. The same goes for a full time career; it is important to give a one hundred percent effort to prove the best results. In her work, Elaine focuses primarily on litigation concerning construction.
However, in the sport she saw a need and it made sense to help others where they needed advice and she got into equine law ten years after she had already been practicing. She comments, “I realized that people in the
working women in the sport are inspirations to young juniors; they represent something greater than being handed money or success.
Elaine and all other amateur
horse industry needed to be represented when they were sued, and being an equestrian with knowledge of the sport myself has helped handling all my cases, including the ones I have tried, won on motion or resolved by settlement.” She assists clients when they fall off, when an inappropriate horse is
purchased, defends trainers, and writes up contracts and releases for those who would otherwise be uninformed. She clarifies that 90% of lawyers who focus on equine activities are in the racehorse world, and across California sport horse lawyers are few and far between. In working for Selman Breitman, Elaine splits her time between Las Vegas, Nevada and Southern California. She explains that she is on a plane every week going back and forth, with intermittent work back east as well. She expresses that the three most challenging aspects of traveling so often
is the "fatigue of flying, time zones, and keeping up with an adequate fitness schedule for riding." These challenges are necessary to overcome if Elaine wants to stay current and competitive as an amateur. Difficult, but Elaine proves they are not impossible to overcome. Elaine and all other amateur working women in the sport are inspirations
to young juniors; they represent something greater than being handed money or success. They represent what all Juniors should strive to be, and they all have aspects of their personalities that can only be acquired through hard work and perseverance…
..like time management, frugality, and intelligence. These women show the world that they defy gender binaries and are
progressive in their own way, for themselves and their families to achieve the sport enjoyment. They defy the stereotype for women in the sport to be handed what they have, and by continuing to do what they do they are motivational examples for struggling students who are balancing a job, a riding career, and school. They exemplify that anything is possible if the effort is put in. ◊
Mark Bone and Elaine
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