Tony Sanchez, official farrier of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo for 45 years, died Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, of heart failure at a Galveston, Texas, area hospital. He was 84.
A half-dozen leading farrier industry suppliers have been announced as the 2016 co-sponsors of the eighth annual American Farriers Journal “Rising Shoeing Star” program.
A baker’s dozen of clinicians imparted a wealth of knowledge and information to attendees at the American Association of Professional Farriers (AAPF) Hoofcare Essentials Clinic on Saturday at Life Data Labs in Cherokee, Ala.
Ever have a client with a first-time laminitic horse that had a hard time fully understanding what this dreadful disease is all about? If so, you might want to define it in the simple, harsh and easy-to-understand terms used by Bo Brock, a veterinarian in Lamesa, Texas.
Last year, Victory sponsored the first annual Summit Mail-In Forging Competition in which the shoe was a hammer-finished, jump-welded heart bar. We're upping the game this year with some creativity.
With the annual Keeneland yearling sale getting underway in mid-September, it reminded me of the May/June 1998 article we did in American Farriers Journal that detailed how these young horses were trimmed and shod to look their very best at the sale held at the Lexington, Ky., racetrack.
The Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School is volunteering to trim the hooves of 60 horses rescued from wildfires in California. They are asking any area farriers who are able to lend a hand.
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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