We are looking for a professional groom with experience handling stallions to join the training department at Coves Darden. You will work mostly with young P.R.E. horses including colts who have had extensive handling as foals and are just starting under saddle. This is an important moment in the development of a young horse that requires advanced horsemanship skills to teach youngsters to stand quietly in cross ties for tacking up and bathing, etc. You will be bringing horses in from the paddock, groom and tack horses for dressage trainers, give medication as needed, keep up with laundry, and take care of the tack and work space and at the end of the day turn horses back out.

Our staff enjoys work- life balance with 8 hour regular work days from Monday- Friday 7:00 am to 3:30pm. At times, clients looking at a sales horse may need to be accommodated later in the day or on weekends for part of the day. If we are away competing we take the following Monday off.

Other tasks: You may have horses to hand walk or lunge. You need to know how to give IM and IV shots and administer oral or topical medications as prescribed, properly apply standing wraps or bandages in the case of an injury.

This position includes all things grooming! No mucking, No landscaping, No riding unless you are sufficiently skilled to contribute to the program.

The work environment is productive and positive here and that is fundamental to us.

Pay is negotiable and starts at $1,000.00 weekly via direct deposit. Employee housing on site is a semi furnished 3 bedroom brick house on a spacious fenced lot.

• please send your resume to CovesDardernPRE@gmail.com. Include all information pertaining to your experience with horses. Contact Dorothea Darden at 803-270-5912 for initial phone interview. We look forward to meeting you!

Must be experience handling stallions and educating young horses. Ideally have dressage show groom skills but this can be learned.

Employee housing on site is a semi furnished 3 bedroom brick house on a spacious fenced lot. The property is valued at 30k per year on rental market but included in compensation. You pay your electric and internet bill. Trash and landscaping service is provided by the farm. If you have a horse we can discuss that option. Without a pet security deposit there is a strict no indoor pet policy but dogs are free to live in your yard.

Quality of life. Professional and collaborative group of people. Employers with extensive hands on horse experience. Reasonable hours and sustainable work schedule where trust and respect are highly valued.