Experience with Horses

Equine exams:

Level 2 diploma in equine management

BHS Riding and road safety

BHS stage one care

BHS stage one riding

BHS stage 2 care

BHS stage 2 riding

BHS stage 3 care

First aid at work

Equine experience:

After I finished school I went to merriest wood for a year’s course and left with my level 2 diploma in equine management during my year I worked part time on a polo yard which is when I learned that working on a yard was not as easy as in college! (2012-2013)

From there I started my years apprenticeship with wellington riding where I lived on site. This is where I really started to learn about the equine work and the running’s of a yard.

While working at wellington I was based on the riding school side dealing with a number of different horses and ponies right through too youngsters up to stallions and also with a wide range of customers again right the way through to livery clients to the duke of wellington himself. (2013-2014)

After leaving wellington with my riding and road safety up to my stage 2 care and ride I moved down to Somerset and worked on a private yard for a family with a couple of hunting horses as it was a solo grooms job it was down too me to find my feet and how I would run a yard and what works best this really was a very good opportunity for me as I was in a low pressured work place but I had to maintain all high standards of a yard through to the horses care and needs up to field care and the chance to go hunting as also an amazing experience. (2014-august2015)

Sadly, I was made redundant after only working with them for around 8 months and found my self moving back up to Pirbright based on a small livery yard with a small team of girls where I did every day yard duties, exercising of the horses again from lunging to schooling, jumping, hacking etc i worked on this yard on a temp contract for 6 months while a meber of there staff was off.

I found my self back at wellington (feb 2016) but as a groom on the livery yard this is where I gained my stage 3 care and also having to step too and act as head groom for a short time due to the sadness of our head girl leaving.

I gained vital experience in this roll taking charge of livery’s and their horses, staff members and dealing with vet visits and call outs which I really enjoyed, sadly I after only being back at wellington for just under a year I felt my time was up and I couldn’t progress any more.

 

at this point is was christmas and i decided to take a few months off for my self and spend it with my family and in march 2017 and moved on to a lovely livery yard in Chobham as a groom again doing all basic yard duties and some exercising I was there for 12 months from there I moved back down to Somerset where I worked on a 4* eventing yard.

It was here I gained extremely good experience grooming at national and international shows and I thoroughly enjoyed the challenges that i had given to me. from sorting out vets and farrier to feed orders staff holidays and everything else inbetween.

thats where i found out what it is i love doing and thats grroming at events i love everything about it after a year doing eventing i had the oppitunity to turn my hand towards education so i moved to Sparsholt college in Winchester 2018 I really enjoyed working with students teaching them what i have learnt in the equine world and giving them an idea of what the equine world is like as college life in completly diffrent from the out side world for me it was nice to show what skills i had learnt and to talk about the highs and lows of the equine world.

regrettably i had to leave Sparsholt as due to my own personal reasons and after some time off from the quine world im now looking for a roll i can’t dive in to and stay for a long time in. i did take a step back from horses for a while untill everything was back to normal and i was ready to work with horses again.

i moved up north in 2021 since on a freelance base for a family with a mix of retirment and dressage horses again doing all yard duties but when covid struck and we went into lock down they locked the yard down and only wanted there live in groom to do the horses so i moved back down south and have been working in a local pub for the past 6 months while i look for a new job in the equine world.

About my self:

I am a hard-working individual and I can work well in a team also stepping up to lead a team if needed but can work just as well on my own. I do have a good sense of humor also very reliable and very respectful of others im always neat and organised in my job what ever that may be and im most defantly somone who can go with the flow for sure as we all know horses are most defanlty not staright foward!

 

Key skills

Clipping

Platting needle and thread

Schooling (flat or jump)

Hacking

Lunging

Equine and human first aid