Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Polydactyl Horses (and People): Why Are Some Horses Born with an Extra Hoof?

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This polydactyl was found in British Columbia by one of the farrier students at Kwantlen College . Gerard Laverty, the instructor at Kwant...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Shackleford's Preakness is First Triple Crown Win for Synthetic Horseshoes; Dewey-Walters Shoeing Team Claims Two-Thirds of Crown, Going for Triple

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Jockey Jesus Lopez Castanon had so many reasons to smile as Shackleford lunged across the finish line of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday...
Monday, May 23, 2011

The Royal Thoroughbred Tour: Irish Farriers Greet Britain's Queen Elizabeth at National Stud

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When Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth set her royal foot on Irish soil last week, it was the first of her family's to do so since t...

An Unusually Silent Anvil: Ron Dyer ("The Horseshoer")

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 I learned tonight, completely by accident while researching something on the web, that Ron Dyer the Horseshoer (as he called himself) died ...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Videos: EHV Outbreak in West Means America's Pleasure and Show Horses Stay Home and Horse Professionals Get Re-Scheduled

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Surely you're heard by now that a strange outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus Type 1 has sent horses in the western United States and Canada...
Saturday, May 07, 2011

Kentucky Derby: Horseshoes (and a Horseshoer's Daughter) Ready to Run for the Roses

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Here's the Kentucky Derby news you won't ready anywhere else. And the photos no one else would think to take. But by the time you...