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Enter The Summit Mail-In Forging Exercise

Build this shoe for a FREE T-shirt and your chance to win a belt buckle
January 6, 2018 | Posted in Education, Forging
Sponsored by VICTORY, this forging exercise will be tied to the International Hoof-Care Summit. You don’t need to attend to participate — mail in your straight bar shoe to enter this free contest. IHCS attendees can save on the postage and drop off their shoe at the Summit.
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Enter The Summit Mail-In Forging Exercise

Build this shoe for a FREE T-shirt and your chance to win a belt buckle
December 4, 2017 | Posted in Forging, Shoeing
Sponsored by VICTORY, this forging exercise will be tied to the International Hoof-Care Summit. You don’t need to attend to participate — mail in your straight bar shoe to enter this free contest. IHCS attendees can save on the postage and drop off their shoe at the Summit.
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End Of An Era At The Calgary Stampede

By Frank Lessiter posted on January 23, 2014 | Posted in Education, Forging

It was certainly a surprise when we heard the Calgary Stampede was dropping the World Championship Blacksmiths' Competition after 35 years. Not only was this decision a surprise to the farrier community, but it also was also a shock to the blacksmith competition organizers who had not suspected the elimination of this valuable learning experience.


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Experience Calgary in Your Own Shop

Here’s your chance to be part of an extraordinary learning experience while expanding your forging skills
By Frank Lessiter posted on May 1, 2009 | Posted in Forging
It’s been a full decade since the annual Mail-In Forging Exercise was established to help you expand your shoe-building skills.
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Expand Your Forging Knowledge Without Leaving Home!

The Calgary Mail-In Forging Exercise is an outstanding learning experience and a great way to expand your footcare skills
By Frank Lessiter posted on May 1, 2008 | Posted in Forging
Now in its ninth year, the Mail-In Forging Exercise offers you a highly educational opportunity to expand your forging skills and earn a wide variety of valuable farrier products while being an important part of the World Championship Blacksmiths' Competition held each July in Calgary, Alberta.
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Expand Your Forging Skills By Mail

As part of this year's mail-in forging exercise, you'll receive a personalized analysis of your forging skills without even leaving home
By Frank Lessiter posted on May 1, 2006 | Posted in Forging
If you want to know the many benefits of being part of this year's mail-in forging exercise, nobody can explain it better than shoers who've been a part of this remarkable event over the past 6 years.
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World-Wide Forging Masterpieces

Shoers from 11 countries honed their forging skills in this year’s mail-in forging exercise
By Frank Lessiter posted on September 1, 2005 | Posted in Forging

For the first time in the 6-year history of the mail-in forging exercise, the top shoe was forged by an overseas farrier. This lateral bar shoe with a masselotte clip was forged by Lars Andersen of Herning, Denmark.


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Red Hoot 2004 Calgary Mail-In Forging Exercise challenges farrier skills
By Mike Podoll posted on March 1, 2004 | Posted in Forging

FARRIERS WILL HAVE the opportunity to see how their forging skills rate compared to those of their shoeing peers from around the world during this summer’s Mail-In Forging Exercise at the 2004 World Championship Blacksmiths’ Competition in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.


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