If you have horses in your life and want to run them as a business, this takes you from basic care to managing a yard. Three certificates, from handling and feeding through to health, events and enterprise.
Stables, riding schools and stud farms need people who can run the place, not only muck it out. You cover facility design, health management, events and running a horse enterprise.
Owners take this one. You learn conformation, feeds, the foot and shoeing, and how to spot health trouble early. The things that cost you when you get them wrong.
Online and self-paced with no exams, and 18 months of access. Horses do not stop for study, so the course waits when the yard gets busy.
Equine work sits in stables, riding schools, stud farms and event yards. The work is easy to picture: feeds sorted, horses turned out, someone's lesson starting, and a truck to load by three.
Running the people as well as the horses. Feeds, turnout and health checks all sit under you.
Stabling, bedding, tack and facility design are covered directly across the diploma.
Keeping a yard safe and working. Horse facility design is a topic of its own here.
Horses, clients and a timetable. Exercise, conditioning and running an enterprise are the useful parts.
Where health management and careful handling matter most, and both are taught in depth.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and senior yard positions are usually earned through years of hands-on experience as well as study.
Twenty topics across three certificates, from handling a horse to running a horse business.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Basic, intermediate and advanced intermediate horse care, stacked. You start with handling and finish on running the business.
Managing a horse enterprise and organising a horse event are their own topics, alongside horse facility design. The business end is taught, not left to you to work out.
Managing the health of horses, the digestive system, the foot and shoeing, and conditioning. You learn what a horse looks like before it gets bad.
Bedding and mucking out, tack fitting, blankets and bandages, clipping and plaiting. The daily jobs each get their own topic.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Finish the diploma and you receive the college's Certificate of Achievement, covering all three certificates.
You earn Continuing Professional Development credits, so the study counts on your record.
Completion comes with a SEEK Pass link from the learning platform. Add it to your SEEK profile.
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 on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the three certificates online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, with CPD credits on your record.
None. It opens with the basic certificate, covering horse psychology and handling, then builds to the management side.
From $29 a week on a flexible payment plan. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 400 hours across the three certificates, at your own pace. You get 18 months of access, so it fits around the yard and work.
Not at all, and plenty of students do not have one. The course is studied online, so the hands-on hours are yours to find at a yard, a riding school or a friend's paddock.
It gives you the knowledge those jobs run on: health, feeds, facilities, events and the business end. It is not a national qualification, and yards hire heavily on hands-on experience. What you walk away with is the full picture and a diploma that shows you went and learned it.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on what you understand, 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. For yard and stable work, what counts is whether you can keep horses well and run the place, and that is what this covers.
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.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the morning you walk your own yard, know every horse in it by how it is standing, and nobody has to tell you what needs doing.