Meet the trainees - Sinead Corrigan

My name is Sinead Corrigan, I’m 19 years old and I was born in Dublin.  I started riding horses when I was 6 years old.  My cousin had horses so that’s what started me off.  I had two ponies and I just did a bit of showing and showjumping with them.  When I finished my junior cert, I wanted to go to RACE but my Mam and Dad wanted me to stay in school and do my leaving cert. So when I finished my leaving cert I decided to do a year in some sort of Equine Studies wherever I could find or get into.
I went to Pipers Hill College to do a horsemanship course and studied Anatomy and Physiology, Breeding and Nutrition.  On a Thursday and Friday I went to work placement in Sycamore Lodge Equine Hospital on the Curragh.  I learned so much over the year. I stayed on there after I finished college and helped around doing things such as setting up the surgery and going on call outs to different yards around the Curragh.  I stayed working for a little while in Sycamore Lodge doing the jobs I was doing on work placement and a couple of nights making sure a mare and foal were okay during the night.
When I left Sycamore Lodge I applied for RACE and when I found out I got my place on the course I was delighted.
Since coming to RACE in September 2014 I have really enjoyed every aspect of the course.  In the mornings we exercise the yard horses with our instructors train us in all aspects of riding to be a competent jockey, including riding on the gallop here at RACE and the Curragh.  I especially love jumping out of the starting stalls.
I am going out on my work placement to Michael Halfords at the end of this month and I am looking forward to meeting new people and riding new horses.

I will be graduating from RACE at the end of June.

Sinead has started her placement and is doing well.

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Training on Curragh in November 2014