Do you think your horse moves a bit unevenly after a trim? You might be right. Researchers recently showed that while routine farriery care had little influence overall on horses' movement, horses do ...

On a cool, drizzly morning, riding instructor Bridget Campbell brushed her fingers across the withers of Chiquita, a 12-year-old Andalusian mustang boarded at Hillsboro's MCM Ranch. Chiquita's ...

BOZEMAN (AP) - In a blacksmith shop in a field on the edge of town, Tom Wolfe is teaching a dozen men to transform cold chunks of steel into horseshoes. Thirty years of heating metal to a glowing ...

In the shade of a small A-frame barn, the only structure visible from the road on 50-plus acres of farmland just south of Inverness, Mark Rikard pulls a piece of glowing hot steel from his forge and ...

DEL MARDEL MAR — Most ladies love to get new shoes, but this one, on this day, was not having a very good time of it. She was fine with her front pair, but her back pair, not so good. That can happen ...

A chestnut brown quarter horse with white markings leaned against Ernie Gaouette as he fitted snow shoes to the animal at Brigg’s Farm. The shoes, which have a bubble in the middle to pop out snow and ...

Patrick Smith puts the finishing touches on one of the shoes he put on Angel, a quarter horse owned by Eva and Jim Fletcher of Paradise Township. A horseshoe will last about six weeks before either ...

PASADENA – If none of the 254 horses in the Rose Parade slips and falls on the five-mile route Jan. 1, equestrians can thank renowned farrier Ada Gates Patton. The ...