Equestrian center

Equestrian center

An equestrian center is a place mainly for horses. Where people may board them if they have no room at their house or if it is for a competition. Equestrian centers are large stables its like a house with no rooms just stables. At an equestrian center they groom, feeed, clean. shoe, andtrain horses.

People at an equestrian center

People who usually work at an equestrian center are grooms, stable hands, saddlers, riding instructors, and vets.Also there are usually 2 blacksmiths are all people.They need usually 3 grooms if there are more than 20 boxes (stalls). Usually 2 stable hands. 2 saddlers and a few riding instructors, about 2 vets. depending on the size of the place and how many horses board.A groom cleans horses, and mucks out stalls, feeds them etc...A stable hand is like a helping hand he/she helps with anything that is needed.A saddler fixes saddles by stitching, cleaning tack etc...A blacksmith makes shoes for the horses and cleans them.An riding instructor trains horses and teaches people how to ride and do certain sports on horses.And a vet is like a doctor for horses.Without these people an equestrian center can not run properly.

Horse Discipline

There are many Disciplines for horses. Including cross country, racing, show jumping, barrel racing, trail riding, polo and many more.Certain Disciplines depend on the breed for example a Shire can't do jumping because of its weight put it can do cart pulling.So light horse usually jump, thin legged horses usually race, and heavy horse pull. equestrian centers teach them there.

ervices

Most equestrian centers offer some services like these. Some have indoor arenas. Which is a long and large indoor dirt (smooth dirt) path area. where people can ride there horses inside . If its raining to hot out to cold or just because you want too! Some equestrian centers offer horse riding lessons. Where they teach you how to ride a horse. All equestrian centers must have nice healthy quality as in it can't have dirty stalls with piles of dung in it. It must have over 30% health with an inspector to check it every month or so. If an inspector thinks its to dirty unhealthy etc... he has the right to close it down.


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