Experience with Horses

Outline your experience with horses here/the scope of your freelance services. If you’re looking for a non-equine or non- yard-based job please use this space to describe your experience skills/abilities and adapt the questions to suit your line of work.

Working as part of a team to care for riding school horses as well as full liveries. Daily routine is to bring in & turn out, grooming, tacking up, mucking out, and teaching variety of clients. Showing strong communication and customer service daily.

I am quick to adapt to situations, confident to handle tricky horses. Building relationships with horses that I work with. I had experience in handling quick thinking competition horses and I have worked with horses that have limited ground manners. I have an eye for detail, I am quick to notice any additional jobs that may need to be done. I lead a team to complete yard chores in a safe and time efficient manner as well as running riding school lessons on time and allocation of horses.

Currently volunteering at a riding school to help with turn out of their horses for riding lessons, treating common leg conditions such as mud fever in cobs, and doing normal yard chores. I have experience in another riding school where I previously worked for 1 year full time and part time for 9 years. In that time I was leading the yard with managers assistance to ensure that all yard duties were completed in a safe and time efficient manner. I had a chance to experience and participated in clipping, pulling/trimming and poulticing for a variety of horses. I had experience in loading horses on a trailer and a horsebox. I had driven a 3.5T box with a horse to a training camp.

I have ridden from naughty ponies to excitable and green horses. I am confident rider. I have ridden ex competition horses which were quick on their feet and sharp. I have schooled green horses but not youngsters. I have my BHS stage 3 ride (Flat & Jump including XC) and BHS stage 2 complete exams. I have previously tried hunting, polo, xc. Most of my riding experience is in flatwork and show jumping.

I have my complete BHS stage 2 exams. I have started my BHS stage 3 training and succesfully passed my Stage 3 ride exam in 2023. I have my full Silver challenge awards. I have completed my BHS road safety in 2019. BHS safeguarding completed in 2023. I have had clear enhanced DBS checks. I have gained my First aid at work level 3 in 2023. Working towards my stage 3 care, lunge and coach exams.

I have volunteered at a competition livery yard. I was left in charge to look after their stables, feeds and grooming at certain times. I have travelled as a groom to unaffiliated show jumping competitions, where I have groomed, tacked up at the events and prepared for loading on to the trailer.

Key Skills

What are you particularly good at? For example: working alone, working with others, clipping, plaiting, turning out for shows, handling stallions, handling/riding young horses, non-equine skills etc

I work well in a team and I can take sole charge. I am confident to handle horses that are tricky on the ground. I am efficient in mucking out and have an eye to detail.

 

Strengths and Weaknesses

• What do you most enjoy about working with horses?

The nature and the greenery that come with horses. I am an animal person since I was young and handled farm animals since I was 4 yrs old. Having horses in my day to day life is a pleasure.

• Is there anything you’d like to improve?

I would like to improve my lunging skills and my knowledge on equine first aid. I would also like support for stage 3 exams.

• Why should employers consider you above any other job seeker?

I am an extremely hard working individual,  very organised and understand that you always put your horses first. I can provide positive references.

Requirements

• What would you like to do or gain in your next job?

Further knowledge in the bringing up of horses, the biomechanics behind the gaits and how to build the correct muscles for the horse. Improve my lunging, learning different techniques and methods to engage the horse in a variety of work. I would like to work in a fast paced yard where I can gain more experience in handling different types of horses, have better understanding of equine first aid.

• Do you need accommodation?

Not essential

• Do you have any special requirements for any animals you wish to bring with you?

N/A

• Do you have any ongoing commitments?

Training for BHS stage 3 exams

• Do you have any holidays booked that an employer needs to know of?

27th December 2024 to 5th January 2025 and 21st June 2025 to 13th July 2025.