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.
A replica horseshoe commissioned by the Kentucky Derby Museum, Secretariat Festival and Secretariat.com led the 1973 Triple Crown winner to again rewrite the record books 40 years after his final race.
Lessiter Publications Inc., publisher of American Farriers Journal, Farm Equipment, No-Till Farmer, Strip-Till Farmer, Rural Lifestyle Dealer, Precision Farming Dealer, Farm Catalog and Ag Equipment Intelligence, announced it has changed its corporate name to Lessiter Media Inc. to better reflect the evolution of its print, digital and in-person content offerings.
David Horohov has been named chairman of the University of Kentucky’s Department of Veterinary Science and director of the Gluck Equine Research Center. Horohov will begin his appointment Sept. 23.
Brodheadsville, Pa., farrier Barry B. Foulk passed away Sunday, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2015, as a result of an accident while working on the farm that he loved. He was 62.
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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