This year's Calgary Stampede Blacksmiths' Classic took a new twist on the traditional competition with a team concept. Four teams of four farriers from the United States and Canada competed to test their skills and be the first team to win the competition.
Two years after Bill de Blasio promised to rid Central Park of horse-drawn carriages in his first week on the job, they are still ferrying tourists past city streets, and it seems increasingly likely they will remain.
Key fixtures in horseshoeing from all over the east and south gathered for the East Tennessee Farriers Association Clinic. Highlighting the event was Danvers Child, who shared his expertise with a variety of different seminars and demonstrations.
Now that the 2015 National Farriers Week celebration has come to a close, we wanted to take a moment to recap some of the highlights from our 17th annual event.
If you’re an advocate of using as many American made products as you can, you may be in for a surprise when it comes to learning where all of the components came from that went into building your farrier truck.
In the barn of Dry Ridge Farm, Greg Dortch strikes a bright-hot horseshoe with a hammer against an anvil. He shapes it, the heat helping to make the metal pliable, before raising it to eye level.
The first annual Chad Johnstone Memorial Contest was organized by the Weyburn Agricultural Society in Saskatchewan to raise money for a scholarship fund for farrier students.
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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