Experience with Horses

Gew up around horses – began riding from age 6, owned first horse aged 14. Experience in working at riding schools, livery yards and racehorse yards. Comfortable lungeing, long-lining, riding all kinds of horses, as well as yard work, travelling with horses, prepping horses for competitions/races, clipping and pulling manes/tails. Can do mediocre plaits in both sewing and elastic bands. Yard work duties include mucking out. skipping out feeding, wet/dry poultice, basic first aid knowledge for horses, bandaging, Competent around young, fit, fresh horses, inc colts, fillies and geldings.

Outside of equine work – experience in managing people, admin duties. Proficient in both Windows and Mac OS, with good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Experienced in DSLR camera work. Previous First Aider.

Key Skills

Work well alone and in a group. Can clip. pull manes and tails. Work well with nervous youngsters, or awkward horses. Used to handing coltish colts, and recognising pain in horses. Can turn out well for competitions/races and used to travelling with horses nationally. Work well with sensitive horses, especially TB’s. Own a grey horse so good understanding of how to wash and remove yellow stains.

Strengths and Weaknesses

• What do you most enjoy about working with horses?

The fulfilment of all the hard work paying off – getting a nervous horse to finally trust you, being able to work through a problem with a horse and the understanding of slow and consistent work. Mucking a bed out to a high standard and have the horse roll immediately upon entering the box. Going out on hacks when the weather is lovely. Taking horses racing/competitions. turning out to a high standard and getting best turned out award, as well as watching a horse win knowing all the gruelling months of work finally paid off.

• Is there anything you’d like to improve?

Riding ability – good flatwork skills but jumping skills rusty.

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

Excellent people and animal skills, treat horses as if each were my own, firm but fair with everyone. Excels at both management and other roles. Happy to always muck in with duties and unafraid of hard work.

Requirements

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

Widen my knowledge and experience with horses, learn more about eventing and showjumping. Preferably a management role where applicable as good in working with people and managing their expectations and needs.

• Do you need accommodation?

Yes

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

Dogs housetrained and to live indoors with me.

• Do you have any ongoing commitments?

Horse

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

2nd-6th May 2025, 9th-22nd June 2025