Horsey qualifications?

[ApplestheHare]

Hi all

I'm a rusty rider who returned to riding earlier this year after a few years off. I've been really enjoying riding lots of different horses at the riding school I take my DD to, and have started looking for a local part loan for myself. I was thinking it would be good to do a course to refresh my knowledge and was looking at this one.

www.centreofexcellence.com/shop/horse-care-management/

Does anyone have any experience of a similar course or any words of wisdom?

I personally think you’d be better off having a few stable management lessons or finding somewhere to do your BHS stage 1

Thanks @lastqueenofscotland

BHS stage 1 (again, as I did it when I was younger) was what I wanted to do but I can't find anyone round here doing it atm due to the distancing regulations in place, hence looking at online courses.

That course looks quite americanised (besides being quite expensive), so I would worry it will teach you terminology and ways of doing things which are not the norm over here, which may set you back a bit, the exact opposite of what you are after!

In the UK the BHS and PC tests and qualifications are 'the' standard really (I know there are other qualifications but those are the ones most people have heard of and recognise), totally understand you are having difficulty finding anywhere running courses right now but you could buy the books and start teaching yourself - you probably don't then need to take the actual exams if you are sufficiently competent/confident?

TBH when I took my BHS exams many moons ago the actual teaching for the theoretical parts was pretty useless (you would have done as well just reading the books to yourself), the thing that was valuable was the practical demos and being shown how to do things 'the BHS way' which may be more difficult online, but if you really want an online course this site looks much better that the one you posted, has videos etc and specifically prepares you for BHS exams www.equineknowledge.co.uk/ Plus you can get a free trial!

That's brilliant, thanks maxelly

I hadn't come across that site. And I see what you mean about the other one, just spotted references to blankets in the module descriptions!