Your Horse Career Starts Here
Hi all!
Just a heads up to look out for reviews of:
Author Jan Young has contacted me about reading and reviewing her two novels and as usual – I’m only too happy to oblige! So once I receive copies of these, I’ll get onto them so that reviews can be added to Equus-Blog.
I’ll also post a review of Equine Emergency Rescue by MaryAnne Leighton and Michelle Staples shortly – stay posted!
A group on LinkedIn I’m a part of has recently received a post advertising Network Horses, an online equine community that has an employment section on their site.
This appears to be a UK based site and has some great looking jobs currently being advertised. Current jobs include:
I love seeing what positions are on offer around the world, and knowing of one that commonly advertises in your area or a place in the world you wish to travel to can be of benefit! Enjoy 🙂
“We gaze upon their quiet beauty, their natural elegance, and we are captivated. They see us softly, in gentle light… rewarding human companionship with strength, grace and intelligence. As they run through arenas and open fields, past mountains and seas, moving like the wind toward heaven, we travel with them, if only in our hearts.” – Author unknown
This week’s letter is H (I only currently have one equine related career that starts with G – Graphic Design). If you missed last week’s Friday Feature, take a look at Finances (Equine).
Everyone needs to eat. If you can do so at a place that is horse themed in some way, all the better! I have had a Christmas work break up at a Winery that used to be a horse stud and was decked out in some old stables – it was great!
I believe being able to provide hospitality with a horse related theme is only limited to the imagination. A trail ride my husband and I went on last year had a 3 hour option that included lunch that was grown and cooked on the property where the horses were kept – a nice way to add to a horse ride!
A niche cafe in Melbourne or another major city that has horse mugs, saddles on frames as seats and horse themed food (carrot cake comes to mind) would also draw my attention 😉
If you have a desire to mix hospitality and horses, you may need:
If you have a passion for horses, food and entertaining, then maybe the idea of hospitality with a horsey theme is worth considering! For some posts that relate to this topic on Equus-Blog, take a look at:
“Coffee, Chocolate, Cowboys… some things are just better rich.” – Author unknown
I was really excited when I started learning about counting strides before and between jumps, and correctly executing it. The same may be said for the horse rider who learns to ride a certain number of strides per minute, especially one who dreams of riding racehorses or eventing hoses for a living.
Being able to ride a horse at a particular pace over a predefined distance is a skill. Pony Club’s Speed to Safety event focuses on developing riders to do exactly this.
In 2012, the winners of heats from different pony clubs around the state met at Moonee Valley racecourse to compete for first place in their event. In 2013, the race was held at Caulfield Racecourse. What a coo to be able to say you raced on either of these tracks!
It seems according to the Pony Club Victoria website that Speed to Safety is going ahead for 2014 also. Tatura have a qualifying event being carried out on March 29th, while the state event qualifier will be held on April 26th and it seems that the finals are again to be held at Caulfield Racecourse, on February 7, 2015.
For those who dream of riding fast horses for a living and are a part of a Victorian Pony Club, this would be well worth looking into.
“Each leg in it’s gallop seems to stream with a rush of speed as though from a bucket of water poured o’er the field.” – Arabian Poet
