How to become a horse trainer
Official title: Horse trainer
Also called: Racehorse trainer, Racehorse trainer
Horse trainer trains and prepares horses and horse riders for various purposes, including assistance, security, leisure, competition, transportation, obedience and routine handling, entertainment and education.
Main tasks
- Bathing and feeding animals
- Cleaning, organising, and disinfecting animal quarters such as pens, stables, cages, and yards, and animal equipment such as saddles and bridles
- Training animals to develop and maintain desired animal behaviours for competition, entertainment, obedience, security, riding and other activities
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Will AI change the work of a horse trainer?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026