• Certificate in Equine Science.

• Currently completing Equine Science Diploma.

• BHS Horse Health Challenge Award.

• BHS Silver Awards; Knowing Your Horse, Caring for Your Horse, Handling your Horse and Riding Fit.

Animal lover, with a special love for equines, and a solid background of working over a period of 13 years with them. Proven ability to perform care tasks such as bathing, brushing, and grooming horses. Engage with newly assigned horses to make them comfortable and to determine their personality types. Bathe and groom horses to ensure that they remain in a clean and good shape. Prepare food for horses, and distribute it to their stalls, in clean utensils. Clean stalls and stables by mucking them out, and sanitizing areas that need to be deep-cleaned. Exercise horses on a regular basis, following their specific exercise regimes and routines. Monitor horses to ensure that they behave well, and identify any behavioural or health issues. Administer First Aid in cases of accidents and emergencies, and ensure that unwell horses are given medication on time. Assist trainers and vets in handling horses for different purposes, ensuring the wellbeing of the horses and people.

• Have completed university modules in; Horsemanship, Equine Anatomy and Physiology, Equine Nutrition, Foundations of Locomotion and Performance, Equine Feeding and Behaviour, Young Horse, Grassland and Grazing Management, Equine Health and Management, and Equine Health and Disease.

• Have completed an 8-month co-operative working experience at show-jumping yard with horses at various levels of training.

• Have witnessed first hand stallion collection, insemination of mares and foaling.

• Have been riding for 16 years with 8 years of show jumping experience up to 1.10 inclusive.

• Have experience riding green and young horses through own purchases and employment at show-jumping yards.

• Well-skilled at lunging and long-reining with some experience backing.

• Have efficient level of flat-work and jumping knowledge and application.

• Have competed in SJI shows and local leagues up to 1.10m.

• Have aided with the preparation and running of local shows.