| This is a unique opportunity to learn about every
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Get the training and experience needed for your future.
The barn is very active with a big riding school program, as well as boarding,
sales, the training of young horses, and preparation and presentation of the
sales horses.
We also run a large breeding operation that involves stallion handling,
foaling, handling of the youngsters, broodmare management and farm and pasture
management. Also, our students show our horses in all disciplines: dressage,
hunter, jumper and eventing. The working student program is run in a relaxed,
friendly, family atmosphere, with strong emphasis on basic horsemanship,
classical riding, breed management, teamwork, leadership and organizational
skills. The students are exposed to every aspect of running a farm.
This is not a hotel or a leisure riding holiday. This is hard work on a real
down to earth working horse farm.
At this hour students and staff feed, give water, hay and sweep. Where
necessary, the students medicate, give supplements, remove bandages and hand
walk horses. Some students will start working their horses at this time.
At 9 am breakfast is served and the daily planning and discussions take place.
At 9:30am the riding lessons start. All students that are not riding help with
the turnout, teasing, breeding and tack cleaning. Students who are not in
lessons ride the horses that are assigned to them. Students will also be
involved in setting up advertisements for horses, make appointments with
clients and riding students, as well as keeping health records. Students will
assist in course designing, setting up jumper courses, choreographing vaulting
programs and also in designing kurs and selecting the music. |
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At 12 noon is lunch or picnic if at the secondary farm.
From 1pm to 4pm all students work independently with their assigned horses,
work with young horses and assist with free jumping. In the summer months the
students will also help occasionally with the haying, general farm maintenance,
fixing fences and upkeep of farm machinery. We will teach you how to drive a
tractor, charge a battery, build jumps and paint jumps, weld broken stall bars,
oil a manure spreader, harrow a ring, learn to read and recognize European
pedigrees. The students will also be involved in massage therapy sessions as
well nutrition information.
When going to a show the students will be responsible that the truck and
trailer are clean. It is also the students responsibility to make sure that all
their tack and equipment is packed. The senior students will take charge in the
organizing of travel.
At 4pm the students help bring in the horses. In the winter months this is for
feeding and overnight stay. In the summer months the horses are fed and let out
again for the night. We finish up in the barn and during the breeding season,
cover the scheduled mares for that day.
At 6pm dinner is served. Afterwards, the students will rotate with the kitchen
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Occasionally students wanting to go for their coaching levels will be asked to
teach a riding lesson. Also students wanting to show may get some individual
help at this time.
When at a show, the students are expected to be well groomed, properly clothed,
friendly, helpful and pleasant to every one. It will be the students
responsibility that their horses are immaculately turned out and will be
reminded that they are representing the farm.
The students have one day a week off. Students must be available to rotate with
the foal watch. All students will be assisting the blacksmith when he is
shoeing. The students will also assist the veterinarian at any given time with
regular maintenance and also with suturing or gelding of young colts. The
students are expected to be self-motivated, courteous and respectful of their
peers and clients and also be dedicated to working with horses.
The students will have free room, board and lessons. The rooms are single or
double, small but cozy, with shared bathrooms. The students pay their own way
to get here, all students must have adequate health insurance. There is no
salary but all their expenses while at the farm, including entry fees for shows
will be paid by the farm. They will only have to bring their own spending
money.
The students will get a well-rounded education in horsemanship, training,
riding, management of a riding stable and breeding of Warmbloods. This can be
the experience of a life time. We strive to fulfill your dreams, give you
insight into the business, provide you with all the tools you need, give you
show experience and hope you will have a wonderful time, make new friends,
travel and be an asset to any prospective employer where ever you go. |
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| May there never develop in me the notion that my education is complete, instead
give me the strength and the insight to continuously enlarge my knowledge |
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| We would like at least a 6 month commitment from our working students. |
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Inquires from prospective employees, wanting to hire a working student that
went through our program as: riders, trainers, barn managers, foaling
attendants, show grooms, stallion handlers and riding instructors are very
welcome.
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