COVINGTON, Georgia (CNN)-- From the Civil War to the taming of the West to the Kentucky Derby, horses have played an essential role in the forging of American history, and the farrier has been there ...
The horses in the Caisson Platoon of the Army's 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participate in thousands of ceremonies annually and are a popular attraction on the Fort Myer portion of ...
Horseshoes traditionally mean good luck, but not always for the people who work with them. Nervous animals weighing upward of 1,000 pounds can easily cause broken bones, cracked ribs or muscle ...
Sometimes, horses need laces to go with their shoes. Farriers Hoyt Foster of Abilene and Kirk “Smiley” Roda of Baird on Monday were tending to some of the hooves of the performance horses at the 2022 ...
Equine professionals give their insight on farrier work and the importance of a complete team working together to get the best results for performance horses. Getting equine professionals to agree on ...
For more than 50 years, Kirk Adkins has worked with fire and steel as part of his everyday life as a farrier. Adkins, who sees himself a problem solver and is good in pressure situations, thought the ...
It's hot, sweaty and sometimes dangerous work — the kind of work that usually gets the most attention when something goes wrong. But a farrier's job is indispensable to modern thoroughbred race horses ...
EL PASO COUNTY — It’s mid-morning on a hot July day and Todd Weeda is bent over in the blazing sun, his case of tools resembles a cross between what you might find in an auto shop and a kitchen. His ...
The American Farrier’s Association is returning to Chattanooga, for the first time since early 2020 for its 53rd annual Convention and National Forging & Horseshoeing Competition, Nov. 12–15. As the ...
The American Farrier's Association (AFA) is pleased to announce the return of our 50th Annual Convention to Arlington, Texas, Nov. 8-12, at the Arlington Expo Center. As the only nationwide event of ...
The unique skill of shoeing a horse, known in Urdu as ‘naal bandi’, is fading into the shadows cast by modernisation. Going back almost 600 years, the concept of shoeing a horse can be traced back to ...
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