About
As an equine yard technician, I support the management of hospitalised horses in the Philip Leverhulme Equine Hospital. We cover a wide variety of patients from high-end competition horses to much loved family pets. I carry out all of the usual yard duties, caring for both inpatients and the University’s teaching horses. This includes cleaning of stables daily and after the horses go home, and ensuring horses are fed, watered, and rugged appropriately. I also provide technical support to staff and students in the Hospital, this includes handling horses, giving demonstrations of horsemanship to students, and assisting in Gamma scintigraphy. I particularly enjoy assisting clinicians with orthopaedic workups which includes trotting up, lunging, and riding horses of all types and levels of training.
Outside of work, I regularly compete in unaffiliated showjumping and dressage with my horse Ross. I also hold a Master in Science (MSc) in Marine Biology from Bangor University.