When Everett Stone began his farrier career at 16, he wasn’t thinking beyond his initial desire to help horses. In his area, the ground wore hooves down very quickly. Noting this, he went to an Oklahoma City horseshoeing school and started his own farrier business. For 14 years, he worked on protecting horse hooves, not immune system cells, but that would come in time.
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A California senator is calling for the suspension of racing at Santa Anita Park until “the cause or causes” of the deaths of nearly two dozen horses are determined.
Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation’s board of directors has approved a 2019 budget of $1,338,858 to fund eight new projects, nine continuing projects and three career development awards. This is the fifth consecutive year that more than $1 million has been approved.
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A team of farriers is banding together to help a colleague’s family who were among the victims of the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shooting earlier this month.
An analysis of data from the Equine Injury Database (EID), comparing 2018 statistics with figures from 2017, has shown an insignificant increase in the frequency of fatal injury, as announced Friday, March 22, 2019, by The Jockey Club.
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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