Working Students and Grooms Needed: These Programs Are Seeking Help [Updated 2/2]

Photo courtesy of Phyllis Dawson and Team Windchase.

If you’ve tossed around the idea of going to work for a professional rider, the winter season and its mass migration south can be a good time to get your foot in the door. While we look ahead to the coming competition year, there are some new opportunities cropping up for would-be working students or grooms.

We’ll update this post periodically with new openings, some of which may even be outside of the eventing world. If you have a current position available at your business, please email [email protected] to add your listing. EN cannot guarantee the availability of these positions but we will do our best to maintain them with current status.

Matt and Cecily Brown / East West Eventing – Aiken, Sc

Kyle and Jennifer Carter – Citra, Fl

Looking for a full time, reliable groom. Must have horse experience. All duties associated with horse care.
Click here to learn more and apply.

Courtney Cooper – C Square Farm – Nottingham,Pa/Aiken, Sc

Cristoffer Forsberg – Sweden

We have a stable of 16-18 Eventing horses from 3yr old just broken in to 13yr old qualified for the Olympics in Tokyo. We’re looking for a person who wants to join our team and develop themselves over the course of minimum 6 months up to 1 year and maybe even further. The stable is based out of the south of Sweden. Close to Copenhagen airport and we compete all over Europe. To inquire, email [email protected].

Full Gallop Farm – Aiken, Sc

Looking for motivated working students/riders/asst trainers. Part-time and full-time options. We are an event facility in the heart of Aiken, SC. We have a heavy concentration on re- training OTTB’s. This is an intensive eventing experience with lots of riding. The position will involve lots of riding, competition, Sales, training, feeding, cleaning, handling horses, grooming, tacking horses, event set-up, general horse and farm care. We provide housing for you and one horse, or you can be paired with one of our horses if you do not have one. We will provide you with lessons and training – possible competing depending on progression, work and ability. Would like someone with some jumping experience and/or experience with green horses- will look at any potential students with desire. Our students get to work with a variety of world class trainers. We work with Simon Eades, Nielson Da Silva, several great Dressage trainers 3-4 times a week. We are the winter home to Many trainers.. We also have clinics year round, with trainers like Stephen Bradley, Lucinda Green, Bettina Hoy, Buck Davidson, etc. You are welcome to hold an outside job or attend school as long as we can work with the schedule you need. We have a great 4 year college here -USC Aiken. It is a highly rated and beautiful campus. They have an equestrian club as well as various teams which we support. Our program is unique and we have a fantastic team. We pride ourselves on the team we have and we work hard together. Please check out or website for more facility information. We also organize 8 USEA/USEF recognized events per year, as well as combines tests, schooling shows, clinics, jumping derbies, team chase, etc. We have a full state of the art cross-country course Tadpole – Intermediate. We have had students go on to work for Stephen Bradley, Jane Sleeper, Phillip Dutton, Boyd Martin, and many that have gone on to their own successful businesses out of our farm or their own. Come be part of a great team. To inquire, email [email protected].

Pippa Funnell – Surrey, UK

Ronald Zabala Goetschel – Wise Horses Farm – Ocala, Fl

David Hopper, Inc – Amenia, Ny

Ashley Kehoe – FL

Smooch! These equine athletes with their part-time modeling careers owe it all to their hardworking grooms. Photo by Shannon Brinkman.

If you’ve tossed around the idea of going to work for a professional rider, the winter season and its mass migration south can be a good time to get your foot in the door. While we look ahead to the coming competition year, there are some new opportunities cropping up for would-be working students or grooms.

We’ll update this post periodically with new openings, some of which may even be outside of the eventing world. If you have a current position available at your business, please email [email protected] to add your listing. EN cannot guarantee the availability of these positions but we will do our best to maintain them with current status.

Matt and Cecily Brown / East West Eventing – Aiken, Sc

Kyle and Jennifer Carter – Citra, Fl

Looking for a full time, reliable groom. Must have horse experience. All duties associated with horse care.
Click here to learn more and apply.

Cristoffer Forsberg – Sweden

We have a stable of 16-18 Eventing horses from 3yr old just broken in to 13yr old qualified for the Olympics in Tokyo. We’re looking for a person who wants to join our team and develop themselves over the course of minimum 6 months up to 1 year and maybe even further. The stable is based out of the south of Sweden. Close to Copenhagen airport and we compete all over Europe. To inquire, email [email protected].

Full Gallop Farm – Aiken, Sc

Looking for motivated working students/riders/asst trainers. Part-time and full-time options. We are an event facility in the heart of Aiken, SC. We have a heavy concentration on re- training OTTB’s. This is an intensive eventing experience with lots of riding. The position will involve lots of riding, competition, Sales, training, feeding, cleaning, handling horses, grooming, tacking horses, event set-up, general horse and farm care. We provide housing for you and one horse, or you can be paired with one of our horses if you do not have one. We will provide you with lessons and training – possible competing depending on progression, work and ability. Would like someone with some jumping experience and/or experience with green horses- will look at any potential students with desire. Our students get to work with a variety of world class trainers. We work with Simon Eades, Nielson Da Silva, several great Dressage trainers 3-4 times a week. We are the winter home to Many trainers.. We also have clinics year round, with trainers like Stephen Bradley, Lucinda Green, Bettina Hoy, Buck Davidson, etc. You are welcome to hold an outside job or attend school as long as we can work with the schedule you need. We have a great 4 year college here -USC Aiken. It is a highly rated and beautiful campus. They have an equestrian club as well as various teams which we support. Our program is unique and we have a fantastic team. We pride ourselves on the team we have and we work hard together. Please check out or website for more facility information. We also organize 8 USEA/USEF recognized events per year, as well as combines tests, schooling shows, clinics, jumping derbies, team chase, etc. We have a full state of the art cross-country course Tadpole – Intermediate. We have had students go on to work for Stephen Bradley, Jane Sleeper, Phillip Dutton, Boyd Martin, and many that have gone on to their own successful businesses out of our farm or their own. Come be part of a great team. To inquire, email [email protected].

Pippa Funnell – Surrey, UK

Ronald Zabala Goetschel – Wise Horses Farm – Ocala, Fl

High Performance Farm – FL

Looking for a full time groom, year around here in Ocala, Florida. Must be responsible, cheerful, caring, hard working, and a team player. The responsibilities include feed, turn out, tacking/untacking, bathing, treatments, grooming, barn chores, and stalls. Must have own transportation and non smoker.

Meyerhoff Show Horses – Ocala, FL

Courtney Sendak – MD

Kaylawna Smith / K. Smith Eventing – CA to East Coast

TerraNova Equestrian Center – Myakka City, FL

ISO: Full time groom for eventing program! We are looking for a hardworking, experienced, and motivated groom to join our team at TerraNova Equestrian Center! This position would include, but not limited to, tacking up, cooling out, lunging, trot sets, show quality grooming/braiding, travel to horse shows 2-3 times per month. The ideal candidate would be 18+, interested in long term, have experience showing or being a show groom, reliable, trustworthy, professional, and able to work alone or with a team. This is a salary position with benefits! Salary depends on experience.
If interested, please email [email protected] with resume and references.