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A groom or stable boy (stable hand, stable lad) is a person who is responsible for some or all aspects of the management of horses and/or the care of the stables themselves. The term most often refers to a person who is the employee of a stable owner, but an owner of a horse may perform the duties of a groom, particularly if the owner only ...
Stables can be maintained privately for an owner's own horses or operated as a public business where a fee is charged for keeping other people's horses. In some places, stables are run as riding schools, where horses are kept for the purpose of providing lessons for people learning to ride or even as a livery stable (US) or hireling yard (UK ...
Daily cleaning is recommended in many management books, though if horses are on turnout and not being ridden, a weekly hoof check of healthy horses is often sufficient during good weather. Use of hoof oils, dressings, or other topical treatments varies by region, climate, and the needs of the individual horse.
An equerry (/ ɪ ˈ k w ɛr i, ˈ ɛ k w ə r i /; from French écurie 'stable', and related to écuyer 'squire') is an officer of honour. Historically, it was a senior attendant with responsibilities for the horses of a person of rank. In contemporary use, it is a personal attendant, usually upon a sovereign, a member of a royal family, or a ...
A livery yard, livery stable or boarding stable, is a stable where horse owners pay a weekly or monthly fee to keep their horses. A livery or boarding yard is not usually a riding school and the horses are not normally for hire (unless on working livery - see below).
A stable master or head groom is the manager in charge of a stable.. At large horse establishments there may be several grooms under the management of the stable master. In a professional establishment the head groom usually has complete responsibility for the horses including devising training schedules, choosing feeds for optimum nutrition and ensuring the horses are shod, wormed, inoculated ...
A box stall (US) or loose box (UK) or horse box (UK) is a larger stall where a horse is not tied and is free to move about, turn around, and lay down. [3] Sizes for box stalls vary depending on the size of the horse and a few other factors. Typical dimensions for a single horse are 10 by 12 feet (3.0 by 3.7 m) to 14 by 14 feet (4.3 by 4.3 m).
The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, is a ceremonial unit of the British Army, quartered at Woolwich.It is a mounted unit and all of its soldiers are trained to care for and drive teams of six horses, each team pulling a First World War-era QF 13-pounder gun; six teams are used in the unit's Musical Drive.