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Champion Shoes Have The Floor!

Check out the winning shoes at the 2002 American Farrier’s Association competition in Lexington, Ky.
Check Out Competition Results From 2002 American Farrier’s Association Convention.
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Back to the Basics

Rocker Toes Ease Breakover and Maintain Support

This modification may also add life to your shoes
Rocker toes are an excellent way to change the breakover of the foot. With a rocker toe, you can move the breakover back while still supporting the dorsal hoof wall. This is one advantage that a rocker toe has over a square toe.
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Simple Shoeing Rig Works Just Fine

Missouri farrier, school owner opts for skill over inventory
Making his way through the rural areas of southwestern Missouri, farrier and Heartland Horseshoeing School owner and instructor Chris Gregory has more things to worry about than spending time and money on a fancy shoeing trailer.
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Modifying Keg Shoes

Simple Clip For Beginners

Practice the key in learning how to draw your own clips
Despite the advent of clipped keg shoes, there are still plenty of farriers who prefer to draw their own clips when a hoof calls for them. The ability to draw clips allows a shoer to place the clip exactly where he wants it, as well as to forge it to the length that’s needed.
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Shoe Wear, Level Correlation

Q: I shoe Standardbred racehorses and I’ve been taught that if a horse is wearing his shoe down on one side more so than the other, then this is the side that needs to be lowered when it’s time to reshoe them. 


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Shoeing For A Living

Keeping Hunter Jumper Show Horses Ready To Compete

New Hampshire farrier finds keeping these high-end horses healthy takes care and patience
Farrier Carl Hayden lives a few hundred yards down a winding road from the picture-postcard New Hampshire village of Kensington, just a stone’s throw from the Massachusetts’s border.
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Common Harness

Solid Standardbred Shoeing Strategies

A master among American trotting trainers offers valuable shoeing ideas based on what he’s learned in more than 50 years of harness racing experience

Howard Beissinger started training his own stable of Standardbreds after World War II.


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