Marion N. Seidel

Marion N. Seidel was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, where she started as young child to take riding lessons. In 1976 she had the opportunity to become an apprentice jockey and was introduced to the sports of horse racing for the first time. During her 3 year apprenticeship to become a jockey, she had to learn pretty much everything around and about the race horse; but was never able to compete as jockey in races, due to weight issues. She still worked as exercise rider for many years at different outfits in Germany and later in France. Over the years she acquired a degree in business management and worked for different companies, but always returned to the race track to work with horses, before she moved to the U.S. in 1992. Here she worked as exercise rider at a Florida race track, while learning her way around the differences between the European and American way of how this business works. She left the race track in 1995 to raise her daughter, but never lost her love and the ability to work with horses, while working in a different line of business to earn her income. She did acquire her trainer's license, but does not work active in horse racing anymore, although she still works with thoroughbreds.