08/09/2026
🐎 WORKING STUDENT OPPORTUNITY 🐎
Join Team SV 💙🏁!
With several of our current team members heading back to school, SV Equestrian International is looking to add a few new faces to our team in Milton, Ontario!
Are you looking to take your riding and horsemanship to the next level while gaining hands-on experience and travelling and competing with a high-performance eventing program?
✨ WHAT’S INCLUDED
Our working student program offers a comprehensive package worth thousands of dollars each month through:
• Housing accommodations
• Board for one horse
• Regular lessons & coaching
• Transportation to schooling & competitions
• Coaching & support at shows
• Travel throughout Ontario, the East Coast & the USA
• National & FEI competition opportunities
• Winter training & competition in Aiken, South Carolina
• Riding opportunities for the right candidates — including opportunities for those who don’t have their own horse
For established working students, there may also be the opportunity for a weekly stipend as the position develops, based on the individual, experience, responsibilities and role within the program.
🌟 LEARN FROM TOP-LEVEL EXPERIENCE
Train alongside Olympian Stuart Black, one of Canada’s most successful event riders. Stuart has represented Great Britain, Canada & the USA and has earned victories and top placings at the highest levels of the sport, including CCI5*, World Championships, Pan American Games & the Olympic Games. He remains the highest-placed Canadian in Badminton Horse Trials history and brings decades of experience developing horses and riders through the levels.
You’ll also train and work alongside Victoria Knox, an EC Licensed Coach, FEI event rider and founder of SV Equestrian International. Victoria actively competes in eventing and has developed and competed horses through the FEI levels while coaching riders from grassroots through competition level.
Together, Stuart and Victoria offer working students the opportunity to learn not only riding and competition skills, but also horse development, producing young and competition horses, stable management, show preparation and the day-to-day operation of a professional eventing program.
🐴 WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
This is a hands-on working student position in a busy competition barn. Responsibilities include daily horse care, feeding, turnout, mucking, grooming, tack cleaning, general barn duties and helping prepare horses for training, travel and competitions.
We’re looking for people who are hardworking, reliable, self-motivated, comfortable handling horses and genuinely eager to learn and become part of the team.
Our program competes from grassroots through FEI levels and travels extensively throughout the season. This is an opportunity to further your riding, horsemanship and competition experience while immersing yourself in a professional eventing program.
Please note: This is a working student opportunity rather than a traditional salaried full-time barn position.
📩 Interested? Send us a DM introducing yourself, your riding experience, goals, availability and any riding videos or references!
