Thought I’d do a quick post to remind people that want to work in the thoroughbred breeding industry, now is the time to put out feelers!  In the past month I’ve been contacted by two stud owners about the need for staff for the season.  Do you have a job lined up for the breeding season?

Even if you’re internationally based, if you have a desire to work in Australia, I’d suggest updating your resume and sending it around to studs now, inquiring about work.  Who knows where you could be working in July? 🙂

For those unfamiliar with the work of a stud hand, I can’t praise this vocation highly enough.  It’s a great opportunity to work with many classes of horse (mares, foals, stallions, weanlings, yearlings) and a large number of them at that!  Plus there’s the chance to learn the reproductive process, see births, see breeding of horses, feed horses, treat illness, maintain properties and of course pick up manure 😉

“When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?” – George Rupp, pioneer breeder of Belgian horses

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:

• Instructing in Hong Kong
• Being an international sales manager for Carr & Day & Martin
• Being a press and public relations officer for Grandstand Group
• Commission based Equissage self employment in the UK
• A saddler position and telesales position with Barnsby Saddles in Walsall
• Freelance Groom positions including riding, in Derbyshire

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