Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Silent Anvil With Much More to Say: Hank McEwan, Horseshoer, Horseman, Friend

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You probably thought you'd be reading the Hoof Blog's tribute to Hank McEwan by now. Words don't come easily, but Wednesday s...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

World Equestrian Games Farriers: Other Countries Heard From

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The World Equestrian Games had a staff of French farriers on staff at the vet hospital; here you see two credentials for Jean Michel Gouba...
Sunday, July 06, 2014

Calgary Stampede: Forging On to the World Championship's Top Ten

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The Calgary Stampede World Championship Blacksmiths Competition is over the hump. Competition through Saturday was an elimination serie...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Announcing the HoofMakeover Video Series: Farrier Hans Wiza's Case Studies on Restoring Hoof Health

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" HoofMakeover " is a series of downloadable case studies of three trims and/or shoeings that each detail the rehabilitation of...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Update on Hypersensitive Disqualification of Canadian Rider Tiffany Foster 's Horse from Olympics for Cut on Coronet

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It's the story that has stayed on everyone's mind. Less than an hour before she was to mount up and ride in her first Olympic ...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Olympic Hypersensitivity: Cut on Coronet Forces Canadian Jumper's Horse Out of Games

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An FEI inspection of a jumper's pasterns. The clipped pasterns on showjumpers means that any cuts and scrapes, especially on light-co...
Sunday, July 08, 2012

New Shoes: Calgary Stampede 2012 Farrier Slide Show

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Love farrier competitions? Then enjoy these photos from the first day at the Calgary Stampede farrier events by Vicki Kaiser. These w...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Calgary Stampede: Farriers at the World Champion Blacksmiths Competition

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They call it the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. There's no event quite like Canada's Calgary Stampede, held each July in Calgar...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Friends at Work: John Edwards Is a Young Farrier Who Sees the Big Picture

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When I first found out that John Edwards was only 22 years old, I thought that was pretty young. But when I listened to what he had to say ...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Canadian College Expands Farrier Program to Two-Years

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18 February 2010 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog at Hoofcare.com The following is a press release from the farrier program at Olds College ...
Saturday, June 06, 2009

D-Day in the Forge: Invading Troops Found a Farrier in Normandy

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When allied forces landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944 and fought their way inland from the beaches, a couple of soldiers on a detail with ...