Kelly
Boynton Beach, Florida, 33425, USA
About
- Jobseeker No
- 170432
- Status
- Looking
- Gender/Working Couple
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Location
- Boynton Beach, Florida, 33425, USA
- Nationality
- USA
- Marital Status
- Single
- Occupation
- Seeking Employment
- Height
- 1.73m = 5' 8"
- Weight
- 58 kgs = 9 st 1 lb
- Smoke
- Drive
- Video
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J__sv0v1g1w
Preferences
- Live-In Position
- Bring Own Horse
- Locations
- Work Types
- Temporary; Permanent; Contract
- Work Times
- Full-time; Part-time
- Notice Required
- 2 week(s)
Qualifications
Professional groom.
Outstanding customer service experience from fifteen years experience in the hospitality field.
Freelance instructor/independent sport horse breeder.
Experienced in all aspects of care - mucking, feeding, turnout, blanketing, clipping, wrapping, first aid, etc.
Strong people skills AND equine background.
Duties of Current Occupation
Experienced groom, for amateur FEI dressage rider, Olympic medalist, CDI groom for Pan-Am medalist.
Equine Work Experience
Head Groom for Olympic Bronze medal winning dressage rider, Sue Blinks. Seasoned show groom, working for Hunter/Jumper trainer Kristy McCormack-Herrera. CDI groom for Lindsay Kellock while she qualified for Pan-Ams. She went on to become Pan-Am gold medalist team member.
25 years experience breeding, showing, training and instructing students of all ages. Experience with stallions, broodmares and foals. Have apprenticed with John Blomback-trained farrier Steve Papoojian. Very hard-working and solid, all-around horsewoman.
Specialities
Professional, CDI groom experienced in equine physical therapy, icing, administering cold laser therapy, accompanying to aquatread.
Very experienced handling horses in difficult situations (vet, clipping, breeding etc).
Solid, skilled rider at practical dressage. Able to school horses to be supple, strong, obedient and thus safer mounts. Experienced rehab rider.
Type of Ride Work
Regular clinics with Christian Bachinger and Helmut Oberhauser, of the Spanish Riding School. Dressage - 3+ years training with ARICP certified instructor Lisa Defarges as a teen and throughout adulthood, I have attended clinics with Larry Poulin, Shelly Francis, BHSI Mary Guenzel, and Vitor Silva I have ridden horses through their rehabilitation under Sue Blinks and Barbie Asplundh.
Competition Details
Successfully shown class A Hunter Flat Classes, Dressage through Second Level and In-Hand classes, on the East Coast and out West. Have shown mares, geldings and stallions as well as young stock.
Key Skills
- Riding
- Driving license
- Drive Horsebox
- Equine First-Aid
- Handling Youngstock
- Schooling
- Lunging
- Bandaging
- Plaiting
- Clipping
- Teaching
- Trim/Pull
- Sole Charge
- Exercising
- Starting/Breaking
- Competing
- People Skills
Areas of Expertise
- Dressage
- Lecturing
- Riding School
- Showing
- Sole Charge
- Stud
- Working with children
- Flatwork