Remember, you're always in the public eye and bad impressions can overwhelm good ones.

The first time I ever saw a horse shod, the farrier was my college roommate, John Hart. This was back in the early 1970s. John, who was a couple of years younger than me, had taken a spring term off from Ohio's Bowling Green State University, where we were students, to go to horseshoeing school in Oklahoma.

A recent review of terms searched for on our website, www.americanfarriers.com seems to confirm the belief of many farriers that high-low syndrome is virtually endemic among U.S. horses.

Dealing with young horses presents another example of the importance of using your mind, developing your eye.

Rest can be great therapy for lameness if you can get owners to agree - and even more so if they'll pitch in.

There's a club foot epidemic among horses — unless, of course, there isn't. Whether there is or isn't may depend on who you ask, where you provide hoof care, or how you define a club foot.