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Sometimes Taking your Best Shot Isn't the Wisest Course
December 1, 2007 | Posted in Clients, Equipment, Lamenesses

I had a customer call me tonight asking about putting a hospital plate on a young horse that has an abscess. I have an idea that I need to fit a shoe and cut an aluminum plate to fit it, drill holes through the plate, drill holes in the shoe and tap them. I need to use bolts in holes — careful not to go through to hoof. Do I have all of this right?


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Richard McChesney

Shoeing Only for One Client

After 39 years of shoeing, this Kentucky farrier now works only for one trainer, but it’s a role that has included handling the footwork on two Kentucky Derby winners
By T.J. Burkett posted on September 1, 2007 | Posted in Clients
In the furthest corner of the Churchill Downs’ backstretch, in a barn that practically sits in the front yards of the bungalows lining Louisville’s Longfield Avenue, a farrier crouches under a nervous Thoroughbred filly.
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Shoeing For A Living
Shoeing For A Living

Master of Shoeing the Legendary Missouri Fox Trotter

Missouri’s Keith Mizer draws on more than 4 decades of experience with these smooth-stepping horses
By Pat Tearney posted on December 1, 2006 | Posted in Clients, Disciplines & Breeds
The autumn air is crisp as Keith Mizer leaves the Shoney’s restaurant in his home town of Lebanon, Mo. He fires up his truck and gets ready to do what he’s done just about every day for more than 40 years — go out and shoe horses.
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