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Two Working Student Positions open on large Midwest Sporthorse breeding operation. Lessons (dressage), furnished apartment and board for one horse included.
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Employment Status
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Employment Type:
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Seasonal |
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Employment Status:
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Full_Time |
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Closing date:
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September 30, 2007, 12:00 am |
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Minimum Experience:
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1 Year |
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Salary:
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apartment and board for 1 horse |
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Responsibilities
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Your duties will include: all aspects of horse and barn care including cleaning stalls, turnouts, fly-spraying, handling foals and checking pasture horses daily for injury; handling, training and riding young horses; grooming, marketing, and presentation of sale horses to customers; assistance at horse shows, including the opportunity to show our young horses in-hand; and complete participation in all aspects of a professional sport horse farm.
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Qualifications
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Experience with caring for and handling horses. Intermediate to advanced riding skills. Experience over fences and driving a pickup and horse trailer a bonus, but not required.
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Job Description
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Job Description
Two working student/intern positions available for spring/summer 2007 at sport horse breeding operation. Learn all aspects of the sport horse breeding industry including breeding, foaling, working with young horses, training and marketing. Opportunities to learn about collecting stallions, preparing semen, and inseminating mares, as well as assisting in foalings, imprinting and halter breaking foals, starting young horses in ground work and under saddle, and showing/sales. We seek positive, energetic, hardworking students who are eager to learn. Previous experience with show horses is preferred, and any experience jumping/showing over fences is a plus. This is an excellent opportunity for extensive hands-on training in the industry!
Your duties will include: all aspects of horse and barn care including cleaning stalls, turnouts, fly-spraying, handling foals and checking pasture horses daily for injury; handling, training and riding young horses; grooming, marketing, and presentation of sale horses to customers; assistance at horse shows, including the opportunity to show our young horses in-hand; and complete participation in all aspects of a professional sport horse farm.
Working students will receive housing in a comfortable apartment over the barn, including full kitchen and bath, laundry facilities, wireless DSL internet, board for one horse each, and riding lessons from a dressage instructor, as well as the opportunity to hack out on 4,000 acres of prairie. Students must have own transportation and health insurance. Position is for the summer months.
Owner/manager and trainer are Equine Science graduates of Colorado State University, and trainer is also a graduate of Merideth Manor equestrian college. In offering an internship/working student position, our goal is to help young horsemen and horsewomen learn real-life lessons in horse breeding, training, management and sales, which will help prepare them for a successful career in the equine industry.
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