Name: Belladonna Algodono (Donna)
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Age / Gender: 38/female
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Role: Teacher
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Your Horse's Name: Native's Mythical Thunderbird (T-Bird)
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Nationality: American (Spanish/Native American descent)
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Appearance: Donna (as she prefers to be called by students and teachers alike) is a little ball of fire standing at 5'7" tall. She has long dirty blond hair that falls straight to just past her shoulder blades. She has sharp blue eyes that are usually hidden by designer sunglasses. Donna usually wears tasteful make-up and can dress to impress when she wants to. She much prefers to wear jeans, cowboy boots and a comfortable riding jacket along with a cowboy hat, no matter how out of place it might look at a more English style barn. If you see this woman without a coffee in her hand, be ready for a rough ride.
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Personality: Donna is a ball of fire with a coffee addiction. She is the rough and honest type, but is very supportive of her students. She is not afraid to call you out if you are doing something foolish, dangerous, wrong or a combination of all three. Despite her more preppy or cowgirl polished appearance, she is not afraid to get her hands dirty. She is well known for getting on a students horse to school them if they are not doing something right for the student or giving students T-Bird to practice new skills. She usually teaches her riding classes from the saddle so she can demonstrate what she wants rather than just explain it.
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Out of the arena, Donna is sassy and fun if you are following directions and often will bring in home made treats for her students, especially if its a test day. She can be mothering to students who she feels are in need of a little extra TLC. She assists in managing the barn (hard not to when she teaches the management classes) and is one of the main exercise riders for the school's own lesson horses.
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Although she is usually a chill person, god help you if you get on her bad side. She has a snake's tongue if you rile her up and does not tolerate disrespect to anything (horses, other students, equipment, you name it). She is quick to hand out detentions and even quicker to take things up to the headmaster if she feels you are well out of line. She will give you chances to redeem yourself... but she will also give you enough rope to hang yourself with if you are not careful.
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Teaching Disciplines: Barn Management, Hunter on the Flat, Horsemanship and Intermediate Dressage
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Riding Level: Advanced Dressage, Upper Intermediate Jumper (She refuses to teach it because she claims she can't explain how she does what she does) and Advanced Flatwork
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Likes: COFFEE, her sheltie Drew and hard work
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Dislikes: Sitting around, lack of coffee and disrespectful students
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One major strength: A true all around rider. She grew up in the saddle and has dabbled in just about every discipline. She rides western speed events country wide in the summers for a change of pace and spends the school year doing the more refined arena work with her students, prepping them for completions.
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One major weakness: Donna is a coffee addict. She doesn't have her coffee? Too bad, you get to deal with the bear. She can have a nasty temper if she is not properly caffeinated and she is the sole reason there are three different Kurig machines scattered in the barns and riding arenas.
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Crush: Aron Callahan... He is part of the reason she left her old school in the Midwestern US to come and teach at Wolf Bend. They have been pussy footing around each other for a few years and neither of them has yet to ask the other out.
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Other: Starfruit :3 and... Donna owns a Sheltie named Drew (cute little blue merle male with blue eyes and the most puppy dog personality) who is with her almost constantly.
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Registered Name: Native's Mythical Thunderbird
Barn Name: T-Bird
Horse's Breed: Quarter Horse
Age / Gender: 15/ Gelding
Height: 15.3
Discipline(s): True All-Arounder, prefers western to English, but does a good job at flat work and dressage
Appearance: T-Bird is a beautiful dappled palomino gelding with an almost white mane and tail. Four white socks lick up his legs and his sweet face is accented with a star. He gets really sun bleached in the summer that turns him almost isabella and darkens up to a real rich gold in the winter. Has a thicker winter coat than most and needs to be clipped and blanketed in the winter.
Short Personality: T-Bird is everything that a "been there, done that" should be. He has gotten Donna through the last few years with his puppy dog attitude and consistency. He is her pride and joy and so help you if you are harsh on his mouth if you are riding him. A true school master type horse
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