Showing posts with label Triple Crown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Triple Crown. Show all posts
Monday, June 08, 2015

Hoofcare Confidential: American Pharoah’s Subtle Triple Crown Horseshoe by Wes Champagne

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Suds stream down the hooves of American Pharoah's legs during a bath at Belmont Park last week. How can such an extraordinary horse ru...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Triple Crown Hindsight: California Chrome's Hoof Bulb Injury in Pictures

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The dream is over, and that's horse racing. The champion is just a horse, after all. But a special one.
Saturday, June 07, 2014

California Chrome: Horseshoer Judd Fisher with a Horse on the Doorstep of History

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Best of luck to California horseshoer Judd Fisher as he waits to find out if the horse with his shoes on will make history today by beco...

Triple Crown: Remembering Affirmed, the Horseshoer's Son, and the Horseshoer Himself

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Whenever a big race is coming up, you'll see The Hoof Blog joyfully tweeting good wishes to jockey Rosie Napravnik. She is, after all,...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Raceplates and Horseshoers in Preakness Stakes History

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In this ad from the Daily Racing Form in 1931, Victory proclaims that racehorse Mate ran in the Preakness wearing the new-fangled aluminum ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Irish Super-Star Thoroughbred Camelot and His American Farrier Jeff Henderson Are Two-Thirds of the Way to Winning the British Triple Crown

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Jeff Henderson shoeing Camelot today at Ballydoyle Training Center in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Camelot will attempt to win the British Trip...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Friends at Rest: Benjamin Franklin Talbert Shod the First Winner of the Triple Crown

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by Fran Jurga | 5 May 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog An anvil marks the grave of someone named Benjamin Franklin Talbert in Pennvi...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

Texas Horses at the Derby: The Club-Footed Comet Won the Triple Crown

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by Fran Jurga | 3 May 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog On Wednesday, The Hoof Blog wrote about The California Cripple, a.k.a. Swaps, the...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Quality Road's Derby Withdrawal: What Did Others Do?

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by Fran Jurga | 27 April 2009 | Fran Jurga's Hoof Blog For better or worse, quarter cracks have altered the course of horse racing ...