In her first book, The Horses We’ve Known, Tena introduces the reader to a simple common sense approach to dealing with the challenges that your horse has to offer; an insight into better understanding our equine counterparts.  This book is based on her own personal training methods that she refers to as “The Dance”.  The theory of action and reaction and how every move you make will affect your horse’s overall personality in some way.  The Horses We’ve Known also addresses more difficult issues such as abuse and neglect, the killer pen controversy, the importance of getting things in writing and finding the grace to let them go.

The purpose of her latest book, The Foal Is The Goal is to take the technical aspect of breeding and simplify it in easy to understand terms.  To share practical experience on issues that range from communication, lifestyle, contracts, promotion and methods of breeding to mare care, pregnancy and foaling and everything in between.  From the book, Tena has created and is currently presenting various seminars that discuss these issues at length with first hand experience used as examples in creating a good working breeding program.  She has taken her basic understanding of horses shared in her first book to applying these principles when handling and breeding horses.  She has been a featured speaker at Equine Affaire, The North American Horse Spectacular and The South Dakota Horse Fair to name a few.  These seminars have been sponsored by some of the most respected names in the Equine industry.  She has also been a featured guest on two nationally syndicated radio programs, Pet Talk Radio and The Horse Show with Rick Lamb.