While the 500,000 attendees of the 2010 World Equestrian Games (WEG) in Lexington, Ky., cheered champions, the American Farrier’s Association helped make sure that the horses and riders could compete.
What is expected of a professional farrier? Members of the horse-owning public have the right to expect their chosen farrier to act in a professional manner.
While working on this 35th Anniversary issue of American Farriers Journal, I've been paging through back issues. At times I can almost feel the heat of the forges and hear the distant echo of hammer ringing on steel.
How a horse is put together — body proportions and angles, leg angles, straightness or imbalance in limbs — influences how that horse moves, how its feet push off and strike the ground and how its hooves wear and grow.
In this episode, Mark Ellis, a Wisconsin farrier who learned the ropes with Renchin, recalls Red’s relationships with area veterinarians, his legacy and the second career as American Farriers Journal’s technical editor.
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