History-loving and history-making horseshoer Bill Miller died today in Seattle, Washington. According to his close friend Dave Duckett, the ...

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...

Note: This story was provided to Hoofcare Publishing by the media relations service of the Fédération Equestre Internationale (F...

Two distinct styles of horseshoes dominate the sport of eventing, one based in Britain and one in Europe. There is no middle ground, or wasn...

Prince Philip's brush with danger at the 2013 Royal Windsor Horse Show has almost been forgotten but it could have ended quite different...

You're invited! Laminitis researcher and author Professor Chris Pollitt of Australia will lead a roster of seven well-known farri...

A team of vet school researchers and farriers at Utrecht University (NL) is hard at work fine-tuning how to scan the morphology of a h...

Every Memorial Day, I resolve to put together all my scraps of research and tally up some statistics on fallen farriers--the ones who...

Farrier judge Will Hampson, DipWCF inspected the hooves of 56 horses at 8 a.m. this morning as part of an annual tradition at England'...

Although excess weight has long been considered a primary risk factor for laminitis, new research continues to sort through the many ri...

Last week,  31 laminitis research articles, collected from recent editions of the prestigious  Equine Veterinary Journal,  were made free...

Professor Renate Weller (center) of the Royal Veterinary College in the United Kingdom announced this week that she is leaving academia fo...

We know it as the Battle of Little Big Horn, or "Custer's Last Stand". Native Americans know it as the Battle of the ...

Horseshoer Danny Ward circa 1990 with part of his impressive collection of hammers at his school in Martinsville, Virginia. (Photo © Hoofc...

The yellow dotted lines outline a DE Hoof Tap, a stainless steel, zinc-coated barbed wall insert that sits flush with the trimmed wall in ...

The conversations probably went something like this: Apprentice: You wouldn’t believe what I saw on Facebook last night! Farrier: ...

Edited from press release The American and International Associations of Professional Farriers (AAPF/IAPF) have announced an agreeme...

Master farrier Doug Bradbury, FWCF has been shoeing horses and helping his fellow farriers in Derbyshire, England for more than 60 years. ...

Veterinary college farrier Travis Burns, CJF, TE, EE, FWCF of Virginia is announcing his candidacy to be the next president of the Amer...

The memory of war is harsh, but the memory of a hero's deeds often improve with age. An anonymous World War I hero is still in the bo...