HoofSearch At England’s Staffordshire County Show earlier this month, British farrier Grant Moon, FWCF represented the Worshipful Company o...

New federally-mandated racing safety rules from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will be introduced "feet first" thi...

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...

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...

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'...

Background: In the middle of the 2019 jump racing season in the United Kingdom, a major rule change that had been scheduled to take eff...

The old joke goes something like this: A tourist wandering around in New York City sees a tuxedo-clad musician getting out of a cab. He&#...

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

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

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

Photos and text © Fran Jurga and Dr. Raul Bras Note: This story was updated to reflect the latest changes made on May 3. Th...

Heels up or heels down in Aleppo, Syria tonight? These might have been the oldest and most historic horseshoes on earth. All but one of th...

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...

The final version of an Open Access hoof biomechanics research paper previewed in February is now available for free download by Hoof ...

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

On Friday, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) announced a change to its rules determining how racehorses must be shod in order to ...

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...

Do racehorses have to go through customs and fill out those little declaration forms? If so, reigning Horse of the Year California Chrom...

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...