Showing posts with label Jim Blurton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Blurton. Show all posts
Monday, May 23, 2022

Badminton Farriers Prize 2022: In Search of the Best Shod Horse

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Badminton Farriers Prize 2022: Jim Blurton breaks records The Badminton Horse Trials, presented by Mars Equestrian, is one of only seven fiv...
Tuesday, August 03, 2021

The Olympic (Gold Medal) Hoof: Farrier Jim Blurton's Concave-Maybe Shoeing for British Team Eventer Ballaghmor Class

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Farriers love to argue about the ideal shoe -- concave or flat?-- for a three-day event horse, but when it comes time to shoe a horse for th...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Sport Horse Farriery: Burghley's 2016 Best Shod Horse Award

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Horses had to jump through the Olympic horseshoe on their way home in the four-star Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in England this weeke...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Olympic Farriers: Inside the Forge at Rio

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This article is an edited extract from a general news release from the FEI. Some of the hardest working people behind the scenes at...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Badminton Farriers Prize 2016: What Was Under the Mare Who Won? (Part 2)

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This is Part 2 of a two-part article. Before reading the specifics of how this horse is shod, please read Part 1, posted on May 8th .
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Badminton Farrier Prize 2016: Charlie Sands' four-star horseshoeing wins (Part 1)

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Resident farrier Bernie Tidmarsh watches a horse at the Badminton House stables, used for the Duke of Beaufort's Hounds and the Badm...
Friday, April 08, 2016

Best Shod Horse Award Debuts at Grand National Steeplechase

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For the first time in the history of both the Worshipful Company of Farriers and racing in the United Kingdom, one of The Company...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Badminton Horse Trials Farriers Prize 2015: Instant Replay for Best-Shod Four-Star Eventer Hooves

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If you think you've heard this one before, stop me. But some things are worth repeating, and history has repeated itself. So hav...
Friday, November 07, 2014

Stromsholm's November Newmarket Hoof Care Conference Focuses on Long Toes - Low Heels in the Competition Horse

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Stromsholm, a leading British hoof care products supplier, will host the Newmarket Hoof Care Conference on November 17, 2014 in the Mi...
Tuesday, May 07, 2013

Badminton Horse Trials' Farrier Prize to the Best Shod Horse 2013 Won by David Smith

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There might not be much left of a pair of shoes by the time the horse has made the circuit of the world's most challenging cross-coun...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Adventures in Hoof Science: British Farriers Collect Data on Heart Bar and Lateral Extension Shoes at Royal Veterinary College's Structure and Motion Laboratory

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Story and photos provided by Carl Bettison, AWCF (Hons) British farriers spent a day at the Royal Veterinary College's Structure and...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Badminton Best Shod Horse Prize 2011: Jim Hayter Wins Second Award for Event Horse Farriery

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While the big news from the 2011 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials in England may be that veteran Olympic gold medalist Mark Todd ...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Kiwis Trot Off with Badminton's Farriers Prize for 2009

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by Fran Jurga | 16 May 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog New Zealand rider Tim Price with Vortex, shod by Andrew Nickalls, was judged B...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

"Best Shod" Classes Keep Farriery Front and Center in Britain and California

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We're coming down the stretch of a very long show season and the end-of-year "Big Shows" will soon be here. All the horses and...
Monday, May 08, 2006

Handmade Horseshoes’ Lucy Diamond Completes Badminton Horse Trials on Her First Try!

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(story courtesy of our friends at the Badminton Horse Trials Press Office; photo courtesy of Mitsubishi Motors /Kit Houghton--Thanks!) ...