Level 3 in Equine Management (Bishop Burton) Level 1 and 2 in Racehorse Care (NHC)

General Yard duties; mucking out, sweeping the yard, taking horses to and from the walker, grooming horses on a night, holding for the farrier, currently having riding lessons at my current employment, hoping to broaden my horizons.

Racing Groom: — handling horses with a variety of temperaments and ages, putting them on the walker / waterwalker / helping load the treadmill. — tacking up for the directors wife to a high standard — grooming to a high standard (always looking to improve) — turning out both at the races and out in the fields / pens (looking for improvement as never really given much chance to go racing.) — plaiting manes and tails, pulling and trimming (always looking to improve)

Riding School: — working with young / new riders — good people person, able to get along with people easily — tacking up riding school horses — turning out into fields, bringing horses in — grooming — riding

Racing Groom — confident in handling fresh horses of varying ages (yearlings, etc) — pulling manes and plaiting (always looking to improve) — able to muck out a semi-deep litter bed to a good standard. able to muck out straw beds to a high standard — good at working under pressure

— riding school horses, looking to broaden my horizons — started riding quiet racehorses

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