Various Jobs at a Race Track

The various jobs at a race track include the hot walkers, grooms, exercise riders, barn foreman, assistant trainers and trainers. Start out at a race track as the hot walker and work your way up with advice from a former professional jockey in this free video on race tracks.

What if you want to get a job on the racetrack as a stable employee. In a stable setting, there's hot walkers, there's grooms, there's exercise riders, there's barn foremans, assistant trainers. So there's all different levels and different jobs working with the racehorses back in the stable area. Generally, if you don't have a lot of experience with racehorses, you may start out as a hot walker, which is probably the most low paying job of all of them. But it's a very good start and you can work your way up into learning new skills. Trainers are always looking for ambitious people that want to learn more about racehorses and moving your way up the ladder on the job scale of working in the stables. You can't just walk in to a stable area. These are highly secured areas. You kind of have to get your foot in the door or know somebody. Maybe you have an uncle or a cousin, or somebody that might know somebody. If you don't know anyone, and there's..may not be a racetrack close by, you could check your phone book, you could check the Internet. Some states actually have....you can search that state and search thoroughbred horse trainers, and you might come up with a list of trainers with phone numbers, email addresses. There's really...there's not like an easy way to do this other than just investigate, ask questions, make some phone calls, send some emails to get your foot in the door. And that's how you would get started working on the racetrack.