THE REAL WINNERS from the International Hoof-Care Summit weren’t to be found in the classrooms and exhibit galleries of the Cincinnati Convention Center, or in the plush hallways of the Hilton Netherlands Plaza Hotel.

MICHEAL L. STEWARD probably won’t argue if you tell him you can put together a nicer looking shoe than the wooden ones he sometimes uses to treat horses with acute or chronic laminitis.

WHEN A FARRIER has a day scheduled at a veterinary clinic, you know it’s not going to involve a lot of standard trims and shoeing.

FARRIERS AREN’T NECESSARILY an impatient lot, but they do have a certain tendency to want to get on with things.