Level 2 diploma in Animal care completed at a distinction * Level 3 diploma in Animal management completed at a Merit

Qualified ESMT

Bringing in/ turning out, making personalised feeds, filling hay nets, mucking/ skipping out stables, general cleaning around the yard, checking fields on the quad, tacking up, exercising (schooling, hacking and in hand work), cleaning tack

I began gaining experience with horses when I volunteered to assist at Cheltenham RDA (riding for the disabled association), I then became a morning groom at a riding school and livery yard for a year working one day a week whilst I was at my first college studying health and social care. Whilst working here I mostly mucked out stables and brought in/ turned out horses as well as tacking horses up ready for lessons. During half-terms I would work most days of the week in exchange for riding. The second yard I worked on was a private boutique livery yard in Cowley, where I was sole-worker of the yard on weekends. Here I completed the same tasks of mucking out, turning out/bringing in, cleaning around the yard and also developed new skills such as lunging, making up personalised feeds for each of the horses and using a quad bike and trailer.

My final yard was a polo yard in Birdlip, where I had my own group of 5 horses which is exercised and cared for on a daily basis.

I am a qualified ESMT (equine sport and rehabilitation massage therapist). I have my own business doing this for my clients

Some jumping, exercising polo horses on a set track, hacking, exercising client liveries, schooling for clients

I have worked on competition yards and travelled to local yards for competitions