Agricultural Opportunity: Horse groom

Horse Groom Current Vacancies

2008-06-13:

Horse grooms, sometimes known as stable lads/girls or stable hands, care for horses, making sure they are healthy and some grooms Grooming involves cleaning, brushing and sometimes clipping horses coats.
If working with show jumpers or race horses, grooms prepare horses for events, and may accompany In studs and breeding yards grooms work with stallions and/or mares and foals.

During the course of their work grooms check for any changes in the horses condition, report any problems and follow Grooms work 40 hours a week, including early mornings, late nights and weekends. part-time and casual work is needed.

There are about 6,000 horse-related businesses in the UK employing 54,300 people. Grooms are employed in stud farms, riding and trekking centres, livery yards, racing yards, competition yards and in more specialised businesses such as horse rehabilitation centres. In racing yards, stable staff can progress to head lad, travelling head lad and maybe to assistant trainer or trainer. for stud grooms, stallion handlers and stud managers.
Work in a riding stables could lead to becoming a riding instructor - There are opportunities for experienced grooms to work overseas, particularly in Europe.

An experienced person in sole charge of a yard, or a head groom, might earn 15,000 to 16,000. racing yards. (Permalink)