Groom (profession)

The hostler (Latin: Agaso ) is an obsolete term for a salaried zookeeper who is responsible for the welfare of the horses of the employer. Proper time is the name grooms.

Grooms may be employed in private households or in professional facilities such as horse stables, horse training facilities and riding schools.

To the duties of a groom include cleaning the stables, mucking out, feeding, movement ( grazing, walking machine, spout ) and the care of horses.

Grooms of sport horses or racehorses, must often traveling with their employers to look after the horses during tournaments, and to support the rider or driver during the race. These tasks range from the make ready the horses for the start up to warm up the horses before the start.

In the Marathon in the driving sport ( briefly called Marathon ) (called Groom ) on the car as a passenger usually horse keepers. They balance the car out at high speed in tight curves, by shifting their weight.

For large facilities several grooms may be present, which are under the command of Chief stall or servant of the Master of the Horse. In many cases, the chief hostler has full responsibility for the horses, including the planning of the training times and the choice of diet for optimum nutrition. He must also ensure that the horses are shod, vaccinated and wormed, and are under regular veterinary treatment.

The stable boy in a private household had to within a certain time always ready keep on call in case liked that a member of the employer's family ride or drive away.