Whether you are already in a yard or working towards it, this course was made for the next level. Turnout and clipping, health management, travel days, running an event, and the business side of a horse enterprise.
You can already muck out and turn out. This is the work that gets you trusted with more: health management, clipping and plaiting, and horses going away from home.
Travel days and events are where things go wrong for people who have not planned them. Organising and managing a horse event has its own topic here.
Managing a horse enterprise covers the side most horse people learn the hard way. Useful whether you run your own yard or help someone else run theirs.
Yards, studs, riding centres and competition barns all need people who can be left to get on with it. The day is easy to picture: rugs on and off, a horse clipped and turned out for a show, health checked, and the lorry loaded on time.
The skilled end of grooming: clipping, plaiting, bandaging and turnout for competition days.
Keeping a yard running day to day, with the health management side covered directly here.
Supporting the horses in work, including conditioning, travel and care away from home.
The later step. Yard experience comes first, and the event and enterprise topics are the groundwork for it.
The whole care picture across a yard, from routine health through to the big days out.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Farriery and veterinary work need their own apprenticeship or accredited study.
Six topics, worked through at your own pace.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Blankets, bandages and boots, clipping, trimming and plaiting. The hands-on jobs a yard needs done well, not a repeat of beginner horse care.
Managing the health of horses is a topic in its own right, which is what separates a groom from someone the owner calls first.
Running an event and managing a horse enterprise are both covered. The business side of horses gets its own space here.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Finish the course and you receive the college's Certificate of Achievement.
Support for the job search, including interview preparation.
A professional look over your profile, so what employers find matches what you can do.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly with no deposit and no credit check, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the six topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, then take it to the yard.
Some. This is the advanced intermediate level, so it assumes you can handle and care for a horse already. If you are starting from scratch, ask the advisor about the earlier certificates.
The payment plan is $29 a week, with no deposit and no credit check. You can pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly, or pay upfront. Enquire for the full options.
Around 80 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no set class times, so it fits around yard hours.
Not to do the course, since it is studied online. Having a horse or regular yard access does help, because the skills are hands-on and worth practising as you go.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on practical understanding, with tutor support behind you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. In the horse world it is no barrier: yards hire on what you can do with a horse in front of you.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
Courses run fully online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. The horse care line runs from beginner through to this advanced intermediate level. Career coaching comes with your enrolment, including CV help, interview preparation and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the morning the lorry pulls out with a horse you prepared, plaited and packed for, and nobody had to check your work. Start the conversation and see if this is your next step.