Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare horses for grooming and exercise
- Identify hazards and risks to yearlings and other horses, and take action to control
- Ensure horses are familiarised to being in proximity to people and activity
- Teach horses to be tied up using safe and ethical horse handling techniques
- Teach horses to accept brushing all over, including manes and tail, and pick feet out
- Fit and familiarise horse to tack and equipment prior to sale or exhibition
- Ensure records for individual horses are maintained and updated
- Exercise and wash horses
- Ensure hooves are trimmed and shod to conformation requirements and according to workplace procedures
- Exercise yearlings according to workplace practices
- Introduce yearlings to stable or small yard and wash bay
- Wash, scrape off and dress over horses
- Increase exercise time as appropriate for horse, and spend time hand walking
- Teach horse to lead and stand up according to workplace practices
- Develop and oversee a feeding program
- Prepare horses for sale day presentation
- Ensure coats are well brushed and blooming, manes tidied and tails trimmed up
- Teach horses to stand in the correct fashion and stand in one position for a period of time
- Teach horses to walk and parade to workplace requirements
- Arrange for photos and/or videos to be taken according to workplace practices
- Arrange for shoes to be fitted prior to sale or exhibition according to workplace practices