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What is an Airfreight Worker?
A Thoroughbred racing airfreight worker is a specialized logistics and horse handling professional involved in the air transport of racehorses. Their role is to ensure that horses are safely loaded, flown, and unloaded when they are flown between regions, countries, or continents for races, breeding, or sales.
Some of the key responsibilities of an Airfreight Worker include:
- Horse Handling and Care
- Logistics and Coordination
- Stable and Stall Preparation
A Thoroughbred racing airfreight worker ensures the safe, smooth, and stress-free air transport of racehorses, handling both physical care and logistical coordination. They are essential to the global and national movement of elite racing and breeding horses.
Steps to becoming an Airfreight Worker
- Confident in handling horses
- Basic horse knowledge
- Prior experience in studs, racing stables, trackwork, sales, pony club coaching, riding schools, or equine vet clinics are preferable
- Able to work in a team
- Good communication skills
- Can follow instructions
- Common sense
- Quick thinker
- Physically fit and strong to handle horses
Robert Logan
Although overseas travel may seem like a distant memory to many of us, our thoroughbreds continue to fly around the globe, and New Zealand Bloodstock airfreight operations Robert Logan ensures they do so in luxury.