do anyone know about a school that teaches how to ride horses and to become a jockey?
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Chris McCarron's Kentucky Jockey School is the only one that comes to mind, but it is in KY.\n\nnews.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=30352\n\nOther than that, I would contact Lone Star Park in Texas or Louisiana Down in LA, and ask themn where you could find such a school.
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Actually WVU often teaches such classes. Contact their admissions office and inquire to see if they have a class in their summer sessions.
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You can look in the yellow pages for schools or you can check out this yahoo link:
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Vet Tech School http://www.bel-rea.com/
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http://www.holisticjunction.com/categories/HAD/massage-therapy-schools.html This site can help you find a school in your area...check it out, and thank you for your service to this great nation, I salute you
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Try calling the city or county boards of education, or see if they have a website. They will be able to tell you where and when classes are offered, and if there is a fee. :-)
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I answered another of your questions earlier (well, it was basically the same question)\n\nAs for the school you gave a link to, that looks like a perfectly good place. They have a seminar coming up with Lance Storm. That would be a FANTASTIC experience, one I'd love to have.\n\nThere is also Ron Hutchison's school which I believe is in Toronto itself. They trained Edge, Christian Cage, Rhyno, Joe E. Legend and Trish Stratus among others.
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You will have to take general education classes first and then you have your junior and senior year of just your major. Any 4 year is like that. But in Virginia , Averett University has equine studies major-\nhttp://www.averett.edu/academics/pdf/cat05.pdf#page=152\n\nYou wont need to take a high math or high english classe but to get a bachelors degree you will need to take general ed classes before they let you take the "fun" stuff.\nAt averett there are different tracks for what you want to do in the equine field. \n1-Dressage Track\n2-Management in equine\n3-Eventing Track\n4-British Horse Society\nAssistant Instructor program-study in England
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Try Camp Shohola for boys http://www.shohola.com they've been in business for over 65 years. They teach many land sports from baseball to lacrosse and water sports from kayaking to water skiing. You can also try the American Camping Association website at http://www.acacamps.com you can search by location and activities taught
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http://www.racingschools.com/rs/
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I think the best one is the one that helps you.  I mean the one that you can relate to and understand the concepts they teach- especially the 'why's.  Tom Dorance is the one that mentored almost all of the major names.  Including Ray Hunt who is also a huge influence to most natural horsemanship trainers today.  I know I would not consider Clinton anderson a top choice of mine after seeing him in person and meeting his wife.  I saw him tapping constantly on the colt he was riding with his spurs.  I did not see him release or give the horse a break.  He reminded me of a reining horse trainer I worked for- that was abusive.  It was the same kind of techniques, just not quite as harsh.  His wife told me she only uses the twisted wire snaffles he sells at his clinics.  That does not seem like natural horsemanship to me.  Also durring the entire clinic his wife was running from till to till counting the money they were bringing in from his training aids.\n\n  But I would like to say there is something to learn from all of them, even if it is what not to do!  I do not tie myself down to one trainer.  I read all I can and watch any videos I can get my hands on.  I really like Mark Rashid.  You should check into him.  Also check into Buck Brannaman.  Knowledge is power!
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It looks like the closest place is in Tipp City, called Padgett Stables.  Here is a list of nearby horseback riding places:
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Yup, jockeys are the most in-shape and toughest athletes you can imagine. They are small, but they still need enough power to control and direct a thousand-pound animal. Plus, they need to condition the horses on a daily basis, along with the trainers. There isn't really any such thing as "a day off" in the horse industry.
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I've heard there is a school for this in Cali. sorry that is all I know. GD Luck!
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http://www.beauproductions.com/secretariat/index1.htm\n\nor go to www.kentuckyderby.com\n\nwww.nyra.com\n\nwww.preakness.com
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At your age, you should already have a lifetime of riding skill behind you and several accomplished trainers to ask this question to. \n\nFor starters, you'll need enormous financial backing (for training & shipping your horses to international events, also, the horseflesh itself will be valued at well over $100k)\n\nSince you're coming onto the web to ask this question, I fear it's a little too late for you to achieve the Olympic dream. But that's no reason to quit riding and dreaming of showing locally.
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If you have the talent and the desire you can become a jockey.\nMost jockeys start out by working for a stable as a stable hand and doing various jobs like walking hores in the morning and after races and cleaning stalls in the morning.\n\nIf you are with a good trainer he will put you on some horses in the morning to work them out on the track when he feels you are ready.\n\nThis will be a chance to see if you have the ability and are good with horses.\n\nAnother way that some jockeys learned to ride was to work at a large breeding farm which many of the bigger stables have.\n\nThey are always training young horses and looking at them to see which ones they want to keep if they have bred them for their own stable as opposed to inviduals who send their mares to the farm to be bred.\n\nThe ones they don't want usually go to the auctions where they are sold to the highest bidder.\n\nSeveral young jockeys learn to ride at these farms and it is a more relaxed atmosphere to learn in than the racetrack itself.\n\nAll of these farms have their own training tracks.\n\nSometimes there will be horses on the farm that are recouperating and when they go back into training they need someone to ride them.\n\nI know Sandy Hawley got his start in racing by working at a farm like that.\nIt was probably EP Taylors farm but I'm not 100% sure about that.\n\nAs the first answerer pointed out racing can be a rough business and it does help if you know someone but if you do not, try and find out who some of the better and MORE  HONEST trainers and people are because there are a lot of crooks.\n\nIf you do make it and become a jockey try and stay honest because many do turn crooked or are not above pulling a horse if the price(bribe) is right.\n\nSometimes jockeys at smaller tracks for sure have to follow crooked orders if they do not want to suffer physical harm.I have seen some of the results of those who didn't.\n\nThe Mafia is in thoroughbred and probably harness racing as well(thats even more crooked).\nThey are are also in pro sports but that is another story.\n\nI could tell you more true stories about crooked things and even the worst thing that can happen to a jockey but I don't want to discourage your dream.\n\nIt is an exciting life style and it can be a good life but you have to be careful.\n\nI'm not an authority but I used to spend a lot of time in the summers with a trainer at various tracks when I was younger.They were not major racetracks but it was exciting and I really enjoyed those times.\n\nI also had ideas about becoming a jockey but unfortunately I was more suited to baskeball.\n\nGood luck to you and do your best if that is what you think you would like to do.\nIf you get too big you could still become a trainer or maybe find some other type of work at a track like being a racing offical or even a jockey agent.