stablehand
Horse caretaker employee
A stablehand is a worker who tends horses and maintains stables—feeding, grooming, mucking out stalls, and handling equipment.
The job is physical and often unglamorous: She started as a stablehand before becoming a trainer.
Also spelled as two words: stable hand.
Self-care for appearance
- muckingCleaning out accumulated waste
- feedingGiving food to
- wateringSupplying with moisture
- exercisingActive physical exertion
turnout · cooling · blanketing · bandaging · hay · shavings · pitchfork · wheelbarrow
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- choresRoutine household tasks
- muckingCleaning out accumulated waste
- sweepingExtensive and far-reaching
- haulingTransporting heavy items
lifting · manual · physical · sweat · effort · dawn · demanding · repetitive
Equine control harness
- saddleMounted rider's seat
- stirrupsSaddle-hung foot supports
- girthMeasurement around something
- reinsBit-attached steering straps
bit · halter · martingale · breastplate · crupper · surcingle · snaffle · hackamore
grooming
Self-care for appearance
exercising · turnout · cooling · blanketing · bandaging · hay · shavings · pitchfork · wheelbarrow · waterbucket
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
- choresRoutine household tasks
- muckingCleaning out accumulated waste
- sweepingExtensive and far-reaching
hauling · lifting · manual · physical · sweat · effort · dawn · demanding · repetitive · dirty
bridle
Equine control harness
reins · bit · halter · martingale · breastplate · crupper · surcingle · snaffle · hackamore · cinch
horse
Domesticated riding animal
colt · filly · gelding · pony · hoof · mane · tail · neigh · whinny · gallop
barn
Agricultural storage structure
- stallEnclosed compartment or delay
- paddockSmall fenced animal enclosure
- pastureGrazing ground for livestock
hayloft · tackroom · feedroom · arena · corral · manger · trough · aisle · doorway · crossties
- horse racingthoroughbred, horse racing, racehorse, flat race, horses
- servantsbutler, maid, servant, servants, domestics
- racetrack jobsjockey, trainer, groom, outrider, starter
- stablesbox stall, stalls, paddock, paddocks, tack room
- colonial tradesblacksmith, carpenter, cooper, cobbler, silversmith
- court positionschamberlain, lady-in-waiting, lady in waiting, master of ceremonies, courtier
stablehandstable owner
One who runs a horse facility
horse owner · stable master · estate owner · horse breeder · lord of the manor
stablehandrider
One who mounts transport
jockey · equestrian · horse owner · horseman · horsewoman