Attendees at next winter’s third annual International Hoof-Care Summit are in for a treat as noted Scottish hoof researcher Susan Kempson delivers two in-depth presentations.

These two keynote addresses will be part of The Burney Chapman Memorial Lecture series that will be sponsored each year by Life Data Labs of Cherokee, Ala.

Because of Chapman’s life-long interest in extending footcare education and effective hoof nutrition throughout the world, this series of lectures is being named in honor of the deceased Lubbock, Texas, farrier.

One of the world’s leading hoof-care professionals or researchers will be invited each year, starting with next winter’s third annual event in Cincinnati, Ohio, from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3, 2006.

“Sponsorship of this lecture series at the Summit will help honor Burney for the tremendous amount of mentoring and education that he brought over the years to the farrier industry around the world,” says Dr. Frank Gravlee of Life Data Labs in Cherokee, Ala. “It will help make today’s hoof-care professionals keenly aware of all that he has contributed to their livelihood and be a way to give Burney Chapman’s life and service to the equine industry the recognition that it deserves. As the memorial lecture will occur yearly…