Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ireland. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

All for Want of a Shoe: Lost Horseshoes Subject of Nine-Hour Irish Turf Tribunal and Australian Rule Change

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One of horse sports' great wild cards has always been the lost shoe. Some horses lose a shoe and stop in their tracks. Some keep run...
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...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Badminton' Farriers Prize 2014: Irish Farrier Wins Best Shod Prize

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Irish rider Clare Abbott trotted up the 10-year-old Irish Sport Horse gelding Euro Prince for the 4* Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse T...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Ireland Lists 49 Farrier Forges and Smithies on "Registered Buildings" List

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Remnants of an old forge near Castle Dermot in Kildare, Ireland. "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

History Detectives: What Do You Notice About These Irish Farriers?

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 Irish Farriers at the Barracks, Waterford, 1909 You don't need to wear a funny cap and carry a magnifying glass to be able to appl...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

St Nicholas Abbey Euthanized After Surgery for Severe Colic Today; Laminitis "Was Resolving"

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St Nicholas Abbey won the Coronation Cup three times. He also won the Breeders Cup Turf. He was ridden by his trainer's teenage son, a...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Christmas with Laminitis Video: St Nicholas Abbey Five-Month Update from Coolmore in Ireland

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St Nicholas Abbey - Five months on from Coolmore Stud on Vimeo . This video is shown on The Hoof Blog with permission of Coolmore S...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Laminitis Stalks Champion: All Hands on Deck as Coolmore Reports St Nicholas Abbey Diagnosed with Mild Signs of Dreaded Hoof Disease in Ireland

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Coolmore Stud has posted the following news on their website: "St Nicholas Abbey has suffered a setback over the last 24 hours, ha...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

St Nicholas Abbey Update: Healing Leg Fracture and the Origin of His Name

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Champion racehorse St Nicholas Abbey in his stall at the Fethard Equine Hospital in Ireland, where he is recovering from a fractured paste...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

The Nobel Prize for Farrier Poetry: Looking Through Seamus Heaney's "Door into the Dark"

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One of the world's greatest poets died on Friday. Ireland's Seamus Heaney was one of those people who bridged the past and the pr...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

St Nicholas Abbey Fracture Fixation Pin Breaks

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The horizontal steel pin (top of radiograph, red arrow) was designed to help the injured Thoroughbred bear weight in spite of the fractu...
Friday, August 02, 2013

Vet Video: Fractured Pastern Surgically Repaired on Champion St Nicholas Abbey; Details on Work by Irish-American Surgical/Medical Team

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A report on the injury, surgery, illness and recovery of Breeders Cup winner St Nicholas Abbey has been provided by Coolmore Stud , ten...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

CIA Director Nominee John O. Brennan Has Ties to Farrier World

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One of the remaining forges in Kilkenny, Ireland. This one is in Kilfane. It has three bays; the center one has a horseshoe-arch doorway...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Irish Farrier Radio Documentary: The Sound of History

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Have you ever been to Ireland? Just click on the "play" icon and you can go there, for a half-hour or so, at least. But hang on ...
Sunday, June 03, 2012

Camelot's Epsom Derby Victory Footnote: American Farrier Jeff Henderson

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C A M E L O T Trainer: Irish  Foaled in: Great Britain Bred by: Bahrain's prince Owners: Irish/British Jockey: Irish ...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Guinness TV Commercials for St Patrick's Day

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If you can't be at a St Patrick's Day parade today, you can feel the spirit of the day with a few great Guinness commercials. It mig...
Friday, March 09, 2012

Hillside Horse Gets a Jockey...After 3000 Years, Thanks to Irish Bookmaker Prank

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England's Uffington Horse is a 3000-year-old iconic carving into a chalky hillside. Was it designed by the ancient Celts as a sign t...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Deformity in Motion: Neglected Hooves Respond in Ireland

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Johnny and James are two otherwise anonymous donkeys in Ireland who have been lucky enough to be rescued and find some kind people at...
Monday, May 23, 2011

The Royal Thoroughbred Tour: Irish Farriers Greet Britain's Queen Elizabeth at National Stud

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When Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth set her royal foot on Irish soil last week, it was the first of her family's to do so since t...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Irish Farrier Wins Alltech's World Equestrian Games Trip

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Irish farrier Damien Gallagher let some sparks fly when he learned he would be coming to America as the guest of Alltech to attend the Wor...