What horse job make a lot of money?

Question

What horse job make a lot of money?

Answer 1

there is a shortage of agricultural vets, meaning large animal vets.

Answer 2

USDA meat inspector at a equine slaughter plant.

Answer 3

betting

Answer 4

Jockeys make a lot of money if they are good and can get good mounts.

Exercise riders make good money, too.   A friend of mine easily makes $800 a week and more during racing season.

You can make money owning race horses, but you have to have a lot of money in order to make money (or just have a lot of luck).

Those "dude ranches" out west seem to do very well.  They charge people a ton of money to come out to their ranch, drive cattle and such.  It's hard to believe that people pay money to work!  But they do!

Answer 5

There are a lot of jobs with horses, but very few of them actually make money. Vets get okay wages, nothing that a doctor will get, but still above average. The only thing that will make you money working with horses are the things that take a lot of school and are in high demand.

If you have your eyes set on going beyond an amateur status for competition you can look to training, lessons, boarding, and sales. If you're doing it right, sales are going to bring in the most money(for instance, buying a hunter prospect for 50k training and competing for 6 months and selling it for 300k is something alot of pros will do-but you have to smart smaaaall and you have to realize that things can and will go wrong). If you want to build a stable and have boarding, then the board fees are only going to have you break even MAYBE(biiig MAYBE) a little profit, but training, lessons, and sales are the big one. If you're really lucky and talented and make it as a big time pro, then you might be one of those few lucky ones that win prize money-it usually will help you break even and possibly gain a little bit of profit(if you're lucky) with the showing costs. The amount of money it takes to show at AA hunter/jumper shows is a small fortune in and of itself, so if you win a 50k jumping class(no, you don't get all the money, lol-it's distributed based on placings-so even if you get first you'll probably only get 50% of that).

Whatever you do, don't go into the horseworld thinking that you'll immediately succeed with training/sales/competition because it's hugely subjective, and enormously competitive. Waiting tables may be fine for people who don't have a horse or two to support(oh, and themselves)-it's great to try, but get an education and have a steady flow of income through another job(be it a veterinary job or whatever) until you're that big famous horseback riding guru that doesn't have to worry about finances.

Answer 6

horse trainers is what i've heard

Answer 7

Vets make a decent wage. Equine Chiropractors make a good wage as well. Depending on how well you compete, you could make a living out of that.

Answer 8

The mob, or any one who owns a Kentucky derby winner. Other wise if your training or showing and you havent won that million dollar purse, all your money goes to your animals. My ranch is called MT Pockes. Cuz when you have horses thats what you got empty pockets.

Answer 9

Livery/training yards

and apparently farriers are in demand and would get paid alot

: )

hope that helps

Answer 10

Equine Managers....and jockeys....and an Equine Vet (which is what I'm heading for)