stable boys

Equine care workers

Stable boys are young men or boys who work in a stable, caring for horses.

The duties include feeding, grooming, mucking out stalls, and exercising the animals.

The term evokes a bygone era of horse-drawn transport and aristocratic estates, though stable hands still work at ranches, racetracks, and riding schools: The stable boys had the horses ready at dawn.

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hands · mucker · tack · tack room · brush · helper · equerry · lad · farrier · hostler · hoof care · horse grooming · hay · feeding schedules · ranch hand · working horses · saddle up · bridle path

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occupational hierarchy in horse racing/equestrian world

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Professional horse racers

landed gentry · horse breeders · riding instructors · farriers

gender in stable work

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Female equestrian staff

grooms

equestrian hierarchy

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Professional horse racers

horse trainers · equestrians · head groom · horse whisperers

Family

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