The IRS recently completed a program where it went through 6,000 employer audits and will use the information compiled from the research to educate and hone future audits. While the research is not yet complete, the IRS has identified the areas where they have seen the most issues.

Lucky are those who land in the horse carriage driven by Jan Michnej. The 60-year-old blacksmith-turned-carriage driver uses the skills he honed years ago to leave his customers with an unforgettable gift: a freshly painted horseshoe.

With white hooves on all four feet, Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome always has needed a little extra attention to hoof care, and his trainer, Art Sherman, said blacksmith Judd Fisher came up with a unique solution.

On Tuesday, civic leaders gathered in the Odeon Theater for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, using the Chamber of Commerce's ribbon cutting shears built by local world-champion farrier Jim Keith.

Spring grass can spring forth a serious problem for horses, namely laminitis and its more severe form, founder.

Veterinary medicine keeps coming up with the coolest stuff. This is great because as farriers and horse owners, we get to sometimes participate in cutting edge science.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate if there is a relationship between a glycemic response test and the incidence of osteochodritis dissecans (OCD) in Thoroughbred weanlings, and to determine if this test would be useful in identifying factors that may predispose young growing horses to OCD.

Bob Gushwa's moves involving hammer, anvil, forge and red-hot horseshoe seem purposeful but startlingly quick to the untrained eye.

Thrush is a mixed bacterial infection in the grooves along the side of the frog, in the central cleft of the frog and/or in the crease between the heel bulbs. It usually involves the organism Spherophorus necrophorus (aka Fusobacterium necrophorus), which requires a very low oxygen environment to grow. Although this organism is capable of invading skin, it usually needs other bacteria to do so effectively. Exactly how this works is incompletely understood, but one theory is that the other bacteria will keep the oxygen level low enough for S. necrophorus to survive.

The glow of the warm light reflected on Mark Harris' clear glasses as he pulled a red-hot horseshoe out of the forge, then moved it - fast so it wouldn't cool - to an antique anvil.