stable girl

Horse barn worker

A stable girl is a girl or young woman who works in a stable, caring for horses.

The work includes feeding, grooming, exercising horses, and cleaning stalls.

The term applies regardless of age when the role is informal or entry-level: She started as a stable girl at fourteen.

Also called a stablehand or groom.

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hay · grooming · stablewoman · saddle · farrier · filly · barn · tack room · lead rope · mucking · curry comb · hoof pick · farmgirl · feeding · early mornings · pitchfork · hay bale · equine

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Opposites
role in equestrian hierarchy

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Person possessing equines

jockey · stable owner · equestrian · riding instructor · show jumper

gender

stable girlstable boy

Young horse caretaker

stable hand · groom

age/maturity

stable girlhead groom

Senior equine caretaker

Family

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