
Working Student/Assistant Trainer/Rider (Open To Options)
Mk Sporthorses, Locust Grove, Georgia, USA
- Work Type
- Permanent
- Work Time
- Full-time
- Live-In
- Live-In Required
- Bring Own Horse
- Training Available
- Non-Smoker
- Job No
- 426095
- Status
- Looking
- Updated
- 1/21/2025
- Expires
- in 16 hours
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The job: We are looking for someone who is passionate about developing young horses, especially jumpers. We need someone who doesn’t mind doing a bit of everything. The job includes a lot of riding, feeding, stalls a couple days a week (no more than 6-10), medicating horses, some grooming and tacking/untacking, setting jumps and some ground work with the young ones. Feeding and morning care usually takes 1.5 hours or so with another hour in the pm. The days our stall cleaner doesn’t come, it’s a little longer. The farm has auto waterers inside and out and most of the horses stay out 24/7. Everything is set up to be as easy as possible to manage.
We need someone to stay home and care for the horses when we are traveling. The young horses that are not showing need to stay in work. This is not primarily a show groom/ rider position to start. When we are out of town there is slightly more work but you will be compensated extra for it. The horses left home need to be ridden or worked in hand. That being said, there are plenty of opportunities to show in Atlanta.
The fun part: Our ideal person is someone who is comfortable riding young horses and enjoys it. With 10 horses going under saddle we need help riding 3-6 every day. There are plenty of opportunities for lessons and coaching and potentially local show opportunities. This is an awesome opportunity to learn how to produce young jumpers from the field to the show ring and market them for sale. Even better if you have an interest in breeding and want to learn more about bloodlines. We are looking for someone long term who we can develop to take on more riding, showing and responsibility with time. This job is what you make it. If you are committed and talented there will be more opportunities.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Reliable and dependable. We will be leaving you with our horses and need to trust that they are cared for.
- The ability to be soft, quiet and confident in the saddle. Young horses can be a lot sometimes and you need to be unfazed.
- Be coachable
- Know how to do proper flatwork from the leg to hand
- Experience jumping and showing up to at least 1.10 or so. Ability to see a distance and provide a generous release.
- Ability to medicate horses or willingness to learn to give IV and IM meds
- Comfortable handling foals and stallions
- Be drug free and don’t come to work drunk/hungover
- Willingness to learn to drive a 2 horse trailer and a tractor
- Ability to live onsite
- Legal to work in the US
Required Key Skills
Riding Equine First-Aid Handling Youngstock ClippingAccommodation
Private barn apartment. It’s nice.
Job Benefits
What we offer you:
- A spot for a horse including stall and feed
- We are happy to help you develop, market and sell a sales horse
- Lessons, coaching at shows, hauling to shows
- Opportunities to make extra income clipping or make commissions on horses you do most of the work with. We always need foals, yearling and 2 year olds to be prepped to sell.
- Show opportunities on our horses when appropriate
- A day off every weekend we are home and when we travel we give additional time off before/after
- Paid vacation time. You need a few scheduled days off when we are in town, happy to accommodate.
- We live on the farm and are out there working the horses ourselves and will pitch in. We recognize and encourage you to have a life. Atlanta is a great city to explore. This is a job and not indentured servitude. The evenings are yours and we are flexible normal humans.
- A weekly stipend/salary that is dependent on experience.
- Employer No
- 426094
- Location
- Locust Grove, Georgia, USA
Equestrian Employer Details
A little about us: We have private farm about 30 miles south of Atlanta. It’s a beautiful farm with an outdoor ring and a small covered. We don’t have clients. We breed and produce mainly jumpers. We do everything on the farm including the actual breeding and foaling, starting them under saddle and showing them up the levels. Some are produced for sale (both hunters and jumpers) and some are my husband’s (Matthew LeMaster) show horses. He’s currently showing his 8 year old mare, that he produced from a weanling, in the 1.40 classes and a young stallion in the 6 year old young jumper classes. We show throughout the US from Florida to Traverse City. We usually do one out of town show a month with the bigger jumpers and one Atlanta show a month with the young ones. We have a couple of stallions and a bunch of young horses and broodmares. We primarily keep all the horses outside as much as possible. At any given time we have about 10 horses under saddle.