are riding references required when applying for a job with horses in England?

As others have said London is not the place to go if you want to work with horses. There are plenty of jobs advertised in the Horse and Hound each week.

I do not think that the comments about 'taking our jobs' was necessary. I, and many others, are finding the 'foreigners' have a far better work ethic than majority of the people that are coming out of the colleges with an equine degree.

If you are serious e-mail me.

You probably would be able to get a job around horses without the reference but it would help. Just cover what jobs you can do, how long you have done it for, your experience with horses etc. You might not get paid very much, if anything for this though because there are a lot of people willing to do it for free, and I don't know if London is the best place to do this because there aren't many farms there.

A reference would do no harm but your instructor must not make you like an Olympic Dressage rider if you cannot really ride a school horse!

You will get found out.

Your instructor could outline the time you have been riding, types of horses you have ridden while you have been with her, stable management experience, horse handling experience ....

As I said, do not lie about your experience.

If riding is a possibility you will be asked to ride a strange horse in walk, trot and canter and possibly jump a few small fences.

You are unlikely to get a job purely riding unless you are a whizz at schooling and breaking. The dirty work is par for the course.

Incidentally, why do you think you should be allowed to come to our country and take our jobs when they are so few and far between? People are losing homes every day because of the current economic crisis!

If you insist on being so selfish, I suggest you get in with some of the agencies for temporary jobs and they will send you details of available posts.

Where are you going to live? Are you going to be applying for Housing Benefit too?

London really isnt the best place to be looking for a job with horses! the few yards they do have there you need at least BHSAI, and excellent references. If you look in the english countryside there are a lot of brilliant places that are much easier to get into. you would need references tho. most of them give training and cover some cost towards exams if you are good enough and a small wage. wages are pretty small everywhere though.