Farrier Steve Teichman offers an update as the U.S. Olympic Eventing team prepares for equine compteition.

New York-based Icelandic horse trainer Shannon Hughes talks about effective communication with the farrier and delivers insight on the breed.

Steve Teichman, a farrier for the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Team, describes the final shoeing as horses and riders prepare for the upcoming games. that will compete in the 2012 London games.

Farrier Steve Teichman, a farrier for the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Team, describes what he expects during a trip to England to shoe the U.S. team's eventing horses in preparation for the upcoming London games.

Farrier Steve Teichman describes Day Two of the Olympic 3-Day Eventing Tryout, as well as what he expects in the days ahead.

Farrier Steve Teichman describes his role in the final day of the 2012 Oympic Trials for the U.S. 3-Day Eventing Team, as well as the evaluation of the horses afterwards.

Steve Teichman, a farrier for the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Team, describes the process of choosing the riders and horses for the 3-Day Eventing team that will compete in the 2012 London games.

The abuse of Tennessee walking horses has been in the news since The HSUS released video footage of one of the industry's top trainers striking a horse in the face with a wooden handle and pouring injurious chemicals onto the feet of a horse. It was four decades ago that Congress passed the Horse Protection Act to prevent and criminalize soring and other abuses of horses. Tennessee state representative Janis Sontany wrote in a column in The Tennessean on Sunday: Soring has been a well-kept dirty secret in this industry and it's time for this nonsense to end.

Jim Jimenez, of El Segundo, Calif., shod the Kentucky Derby winner using Kerckhaert Tradition XT fronts and Tradition Regular Toe hinds with toe clips.