managing horse care, maintaining tack, Equine management, Grooming techniques, Paddock and pasture maintenance, Horse training, lunging, stable and yard maintenance, maintaining fitness (leading onto walker), equine first aid, learning to clip.

Yard Groom, May 2022 – Present Stanton Park Stud, 4* competition yard Chippenham Wiltshire.

Horse care and management - learning includes how to bandage, braid manes, learning to clip horses, lunge ponies. Managing cuts and injury (first aid). Working with younger horses homebred yearlings, 4-13 year old horses and ponies, and handling horses new to riding. Maintaining their coats and general hoof condition. General upkeep of stables and fields, leading horses to the field, using a walker, rugging horses, maintaining, and cleaning tack. Preparing horses for trail rides/work. • Sole Charge Working - managing the yard when there are lower staffing levels. Supporting newer staff to ensure that they develop new skills in the equine sector, including those who may have lots of experience or have never worked with horses. • Multidisciplinary working - Farriers and vets

Previous experience supporting and managing care of own horses at home.

Experience outside of work with flat work, hacking, small jumps, pole work.

Experience in work with handling horses, broodmares, a stallion, younger horses and competition horses. Experience lunging.

Riding experience outside of professional work. Experience with flat work, pole work, circles and serpentine in arena, changing rein across diagonal, Experience clearing smaller jumps (up to 1m).

Working as Yard Groom in 4* Competition Yard Stanton Park Stud, supporting general welfare and fitness of competition horses and ponies for eventers on the yard. Family yard with children also eventing.

No previous experience eventing.