Haley
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
About
- Jobseeker No
- 360289
- Status
- Looking
- Gender/Working Couple
- Female
- Age
- 26
- Location
- Norfolk, Virginia, 23518, USA
- Nationality
- USA
- Marital Status
- Married
- Occupation
- Head show groom
- Height
- 1.68m = 5' 6"
- Weight
- 65 kgs = 10 st 3 lb
- Smoke
- Drive
Preferences
- Live-In Position
- Bring Own Horse
- Locations
- (Virginia)
- Work Types
- Temporary; Permanent; Contract; Freelance
- Work Times
- Full-time; Part-time
- Notice Required
- 3 week(s)
Qualifications
I have received a Bachelor of Science in Equestrian Studies with a concentration in business management with a minor in English.
I have traveled and freelance groomed for 5+ years
Documents
Duties of Current Occupation
Head show groom Assistant Barn manager
Equine Work Experience
Top Gun Equestrian Center (about a year of employment) - Caring for 20-24 horses at home as well as traveling to shows at places including Saratoga horse show and NYS fairgrounds complex. Averett University (2017-2021)- Caring for 30+ horses with 1-3 other people. management skills, lunging, riding, dressage and hunt seat CNY Eq (May 2019- August 2019 internship) Then continued to freelance 2021-2023 - Working under Nicolle Madonna Cerio and at Heather Fenske's Cloudnine Farm. I was a primary care taker for 10-20 horses/ponies. I traveled to all of the shows and worked as a groom at places including HITS Saugerties and Ocala as well as the NYS fairgrounds complex. I have volunteered as a ring steward for the jumper ring at the Virginia horse trials. Chris & Ehrin Rittmueler's (Four Winds Farm and equine hospital) head show groom for the 2025 winter circuit. Including managing 10 horses varying from green - international hunter derbies
Specialities
Grooming for home and A shows- clipping, mucking, tacking, general first aid, bandaging, wrapping, etc *lunging in side reins and cavasson
I've spent numerous summers working at a non profit thoroughbred adoption center called Blueblood thoroughbreds assisting in retraining
some vet tech work with horses *laser therapy *Shockwave
Type of Ride Work
I have mainly held an amateur status with variable ownership, leases and a few sale horses of my own. I have dabbled in eventing, fox hunting and AQHA. I have schooled through first level dressage. My primary experience is held in the hunter ring but I have recently transitioned to jumpers the last few years.
Competition Details
I have a USEF membership to compete but also have shown through children's hunters and modified jumpers. I have a very old AQHA record as well. I have groomed for international hunter horses