Nick
Blackdown, Dorset, UK
About
- Jobseeker No
- 412892
- Status
- Looking
- Gender/Working Couple
- Male
- Age
- 37
- Location
- Blackdown, Dorset, DT8, UK
- Nationality
- UK
- Marital Status
- Single
- Occupation
- Trek leader, rider, yard work, outdoor maintenance, equine work (ex-apprentice jockey)
- Height
- 1.68m = 5' 6"
- Weight
- 77 kgs = 12 st 1 lb
- Smoke
- Drive
Preferences
- Locations
- (Dorset: Blackdown, 30 miles)
Qualifications
Apprentice jockey licence (Jockey Club March 2005) NVQ Level 2 in Racehorse Care (Jockey Club August 2005) Counterbalance Forklift ATT- B1 novice (December 2022) CITB Site Safety Plus. Health and Safety Awareness Certificate (April 2024 St John's Ambulance First Aid Certificate May 2025
Documents
Duties of Current Occupation
I worked for the summer season as trek leader at Glenshiel Highland Pony Trekking Centre, riding, looking after the horses, tacking up, organising and leading treks, maintenance work. Since September I have worked temporarily at a livery yard.
Equine Work Experience
Pony trek leader in the Highlands of Scotland. Seven years working as an apprentice jockey and work rider, including breaking-in and riding young race horses. Also riding our own and other horses since I was a child.
Specialities
Hard work, team-player, enthusiastic, I like a varied job. I have worked with young horses
Type of Ride Work
I have ridden flat racing horses and steeple chasers. Also trekking ponies, hunters, and cobs. Also breaking and backing young horses.
Competition Details
I won my first ever race in public (at Pontefract) as an apprentice jockey! (And subsequently others too.)