Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify requirements for successful greyhound racing
- Determine greyhound health and fitness for racing, according to industry rules and regulations and animal welfare legislation
- Identify behaviours required for racing, according to industry standards, safe practices and the rules of racing
- Identify behavioural elements of racing that are amenable to training and modification
- Determine industry benchmarking of performance and indicators of success
- Identify behaviours associated with racing kennel activities and routines
- Identify industry grading and nomination policies
- Plan and implement a racing training program for greyhounds
- Assess individual greyhound behaviour, skills, health and fitness
- Determine training strategies to achieve desirable behaviours and fitness
- Develop training plans for individual greyhounds, according to industry standards
- Familiarise greyhounds with equipment used in training and racing and kennel activities and routines
- Provide enrichment and socialisation activities for individual greyhounds
- Conduct training according to training plans, industry standards, including WHS, animal welfare and ethics requirements
- Maintain training records according to industry and workplace procedures
- Race greyhounds
- Review performance and modify greyhound training plan
- Review greyhound performance in line with industry benchmarks for racing greyhounds and animal welfare and ethics requirements
- Assess variables and seek specialist advice on issues that impact on greyhound performance and identify areas of potential improvement
- Seek specialist advice and identify injury and illness that may impact on greyhound performance, and modify training program
- Revise future training plans and update records, according to industry standards and animal welfare and ethics requirements
- Comply with greyhound racing rules and regulations
- Determine local racing policies and participate in procedures that comply with rules relating to training, race-day and trial procedures
- Participate in procedures that comply with rules relating to prohibited, permanently prohibited and exempted substances
- Maintain treatment records, according to industry standards