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Duties and Tasks
Stablehands may perform the following tasks: - brush and groom, feed, handle and exercise horses and lead them to their stables
- check horses for lameness, common injuries, ailments and infections
- give first aid, medication or other treatment to horses
- clean and maintain stables and training equipment
- accompany horses to registered race meetings, gymkhanas and equestrian events
- exercise horses during track work or equestrian activities.
Specialisations
With experience and sometimes further training, a stablehand may progress to stable supervisor. Some stablehands who show potential and are light in weight may become apprentice jockeys.
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