Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Impactful Hoof Research in New Zealand: Computer Model to Gauge Equine Limb Reaction to Change in Surface Condition

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Researchers at New Zealand's Massey University are creating a dynamic computer model of the racehorse limb in motion. Their goal is to...
Monday, August 28, 2017

The Day the Forge Caved in under the World Champion "Fighting Blacksmith"?

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This photo of World Champion boxer Bob Fitzsimmons is a mystery. "The Fighting Blacksmith" from New Zealand posed with an anvil ...
Thursday, December 08, 2016

Research: Hoof Conformation and Flat Feet in New Zealand Thoroughbred Racehorses

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In a previous article, the Hoof Blog described a study conducted in New Zealand to survey the way sport horses in that country are shod,...

Research: Farriery and Hoof Care Data Collected for Dressage, Showjumping Sport Horses in New Zealand

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Not too long ago, a sport horse at an international show could trot by and you could tell what nation he was from by the way he was shod...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The Anzac Hoof: Where were the farriers during the battle for Gallipoli?

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The Anzac trophy hoof / inkwell lives in the heraldry collection of the Australian War Memorial . Today, a salute to our friends in...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Kiwi Farrier Finesse: What's Underneath the Burghley Horse Trials Best Shod Horse?

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When is a horseshoe more than a horseshoe? When this much work goes into it. This shoe looks like other British-style shoes nailed onto e...
Friday, September 04, 2015

Burghley Best Shod Horse: Who Won the Worshipful Company of Farriers Eventing Prize?

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New Zealand rider Tim Price and Ringwood Sky Boy are in fifth place after dressage at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in England. But...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Laminitis Researcher Ray Geor to Leave US for Post in His Native New Zealand

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Edited from a press release  Beginning in 2015, Massey University's College of Sciences in New Zealand will be led by international...
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...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Farriers Finish 1-2-3 In the Saddle--Not in the Forge--at FEI Bayer New Zealand Showjumping World Cup

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Something caught my eye today in a news release from the always-helpful Equestrian New Zealand High Performance Media Liaison Officer, D...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

New Zealand Farrier Stuart Muir Joins Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital Podiatry Center in Kentucky

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New Zealand farrier Stuart Muir is now in the USA working at the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital Podiatry Center in Lexington, Kentucky (i...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Racing Two-Year-Old Thoroughbreds: Does It Promote Longer, More Successful Racing Careers? Kiwi Numbers Might Not Tell the Whole Story

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Zenyatta was the exception to the rule, if judged by the New Zealand statistics. She began her  phenomenal  racing career in the fall of h...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Badminton Horse Trials Farriers Prize 2009: Photos of New Zealand's Winning Best Shod Horse

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We've been halfway around the world and back again this week to catch up with New Zealand team farrier Andrew Nickalls, who in turn has ...