Assistant Trainer

Employee will be responsible for feeding, turnout daily; grooming & tacking on some days. Our farm has 12 -14 horses, with a 10-stall expansion planned in 2027. We have a variety of horses of all breeds. We are a ridiculously organized group of folks whose top priority is a peaceful quiet barn, that is conducive to the working of our team and horses. Our horses work five days a week, with Thursdays off for vets etc. and Sunday's off to rest. I am a graduate of the L education program with distinction and a USDF bronze and silver medalist. My emphasis is on education of the equines and people from the ground up. This Position is 5.5 days a week, approximately 8 am - 4:30 pm.

Required Skill Set:

• Must live in the USA or already have visa
• The ability to handle young warmbloods
• Ability to hack/ warm up dressage horses
• The ability to lift a 50 lb. bag of grain and/or bale of hay.
• Feeding of morning and afternoon grain per detailed feeding chart. Setting up grain for next meal.
• Blanketing changes for horses depending on weather changes.
• Leading to and from turn out. This requires the ability to handle young horses, as well as mature horses.
• Organization/ Problem Solving/ Multitasking/ Time Management
• Attention to detail. The ability to monitor horses or changes in health or soundness and preform basic first aid skills such as temperature, bandaging or drug administration if required.
• Body clipping/mane pulling
• Horse show grooming/braiding
• Starting young horses.

Video of riding ability requested.

1590 WV Thompson Road, Rutherfordton NC 28139

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