Paid Full Time Assistant Trainer/Groom/Working Student
Autumn Twilight Morgan Farm, Rogue River, Oregon, USA
- Salary
- yes, negotiable
- Work Type
- Permanent
- Work Time
- Full-time; Part-time
- Live-In
- Live-In Optional
- Bring Own Horse
- Training Available
- Non-Smoker
- Job No
- 116410
- Status
- Looking
- Updated
- 8/15/2024
- Expires
- in one month
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- 562
Excellent opportunity for talented experienced rider who’s passionate about pursuing excellent horsemanship and desires to learn all facets of breeding, raising, training, showing, and selling horses. Groom, exercise, ride, drive, & show as increasingly capable under owner’s highly successful training system that produced dozens of champion riders, horses, and pro trainers over 35 year career. Classical dressage applied to all ages and stages of training in variety of disciplines. Focused on dressage and combined driving but primarily helping horses in whatever career suits them best.
We are serious competitors but have fun too. We enjoy building trusting bonds with horses while creatively teaching and interacting with their diverse personalities. This highly valuable hands on education coaches the how/why of options/choices in guiding each horse's responses, avoiding misunderstandings, and building relaxation and trust to form a solid base for wide variety of horses and riders.
Require highly responsible, compassionate, independent, kind person to assist with all facets of horse care and training of our 8-12 horses on our privately owned sport horse breeding farm in beautiful Rogue River, Oregon. We're retired so don't have any boarders or customers to please. But we might be willing to help the right person establish their own training/lesson business using our professional level facility, horses & equipment!
Full time competitive salary! Amount dependent on responsibilities, capabilities, level of experience, etc. Prefer some dressage background & any show experience. Private lessons, work study, show & travel expenses, utilities, internet included. Living quarters: clean modern 32’ 5th wheel trailer in private setting. Pet on approval. Board for own horse/other tasks & compensation are negotiable.
Flexible days & hours but must be available to travel to shows, and assume management during owner's absence. Prefer 1-2 yr commitment.
Requirements
Responsible, reliable, earnest, experienced horse person with positive attitude, and overwhelming desire to learn, expand skills, and grow ability to communicate with horses through trust building and positive reinforcement. Prefer some show experience. Harness/long line work also helpful. Prefer long term (2 year) commitment to realize benefits of investment. Successful applicant knows this is an athletic sport that demands excellence, but keeps a kind and generous attitude toward the horses, themselves, and others. I'm retired and want to enjoy my wonderful barn, and create a few more champions. This is a very physically demanding sport so be in good shape and able to lift 50 pounds.
Required Key Skills
Riding Driving license ExercisingRequired Expertise
FlatworkAccommodation
Modern clean 35' fifth-wheel trailer with 2 big slide outs to expand living and bedroom areas, fully furnished, air conditioning, full kitchen and bath. Includes utilities and internet. Set in large private yard area away from barn. Access to creek and all the seasonal fruit you can eat. Small fenced yard for approved pets.
Job Benefits
Work with top quality, beautiful, well mannered, happy horses and a patient, knowledgeable, highly successful, retired pro trainer on a peaceful secluded estate in southern Oregon. Walk to work! Learn proven techniques of avoiding and resolving training/communication issues from foals to finished rail/trail horses, and building solid dressage horses & riders to third level while improving your equitation, riding, and teaching skills through this hands on supervised apprenticeship. Earn unsupervised schooling, and work into competing on local, regional, and national levels as you progress. Be involved in all aspects and responsibilities of operating a successful breeding, training, showing, and sales operation. This is not a public barn so only need to please two people...and the horses:). Salaried employee covered by Worker's Compensation Insurance, paid vacation and flexible schedule.
- Employer No
- 106755
- Location
- Rogue River, Oregon, USA
We moved to a peaceful little farm nestled in the beautiful Rouge River Valley of southern Oregon only 4 years ago. So our modern and tidy horse facility on 15 acres is still under construction. So far we have built a great 60 x 120 covered arena, 90 x 200 outdoor arena, 24 x36 hay barn, 14 sheltered pipe corrals fenced with wire mesh stud panels, a 50' solid round pen, two stallion let out pens and pastures. More box stalls and pasture fencing are in progress and a breeding barn is planned. Clean modern 5th wheel trailer located in fruit orchard near year round creek is available for help--see photos.