This week’s letter is Y (sorry, no horse jobs covered that start with X – yet!). If you missed last week’s Friday Feature, take a look at Website Design (Equine).
I believe it takes a special kind of person to be able to educate and turn out any yearling to a high standard for sale. This tends to be done year round in the racing industries and because the northern and southern hemispheres work on different seasons, it can be done year round by the individual willing to travel.
A yearling handler is often involved in:
- Teaching young horses to lead
- Feeding and grooming
- Introducing horses to rugs and to being brushed
- Washing perhaps for the first time
- Holding for the farrier
- Pulling manes
- Turning out to a high standard
- Parading yearlings to clients and putting through the sale ring
If you find yourself enjoying this sort of work, it really is possible to travel around the world – or even the states of your country – and attend different horse sales. Some may argue that the best (or worst) bit of working with yearling sales preparation is that every 8 weeks you’re working with a new set of horses and the cycle starts again. Just don’t get attached – they’re being prepared for sale!!
For some posts that relate to this topic on Equus-Blog, take a look at:
- Melbourne Premier Yearling Sales 2009
- Networking at the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sales
- Positions Vacant
- Yearling Handlers
- Yearling Management
“Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him – a status symbol.” – Fletcher Kneb
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