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Without a Will, Who’ll Get Your Shoeing Rig?

Inheritance laws demonstrate why all farriers, regardless of age, need a written will to have any say in how their assets and property will be distributed after death

By Frank Lessiter posted on June 22, 2019 | Posted in Business Practices, Safety & Healthcare

When Aretha Franklin, Howard Hughes and Prince died without having bothered to create a legal will, they left their huge estates in a disastrous legal mess. While a farrier’s assets and property aren’t likely to be anywhere close to the value of what these three well-known individuals left behind, you want the legal protection that can be yours by taking a few hours to pull together a needed legal document.

Let’s Wait Until Spring

By Kathleen Preece posted on May 18, 2019 | Posted in Clients, Diseases

The words felt like wads of cotton in my mouth — thick, difficult to swallow. I could barely spit them out: “Neal, should I put her down?” “Neal” is my farrier, Neal Martin; “her” is Annie, my defiant, independent little rescue pony. Neal’s answer: “Let’s wait until spring.”

More than a Century Later, Feds Terminate Horseshoe Antitrust Case

The Federal Trade Commission has decided it’s time to drop an antitrust case that dealt with the lack of competition for horseshoes, calks and pads in 1908

By Frank Lessiter posted on May 8, 2019 | Posted in Business Practices, Education

While most everyone recognizes the federal bureaucracy moves slowly, the Department of Justice may hold the record as it brings an end to some of its long-open cases regarding monopolistic practices and unfair competition.

PAST Act Gets a Boost in the U.S. House

By Jeff Cota posted on May 4, 2019 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients, Disciplines & Breeds, Shoeing

Since the introduction of the first Prevent All Soring Tactics Act in 2013, the legislation has received remarkable support in both houses of Congress, only to die in committee. Yet, a rule change could finally bring a vote on a bill that aims to significantly change farriery of gaited horses such as Tennessee Walkers.

Answering the Question that All Farriers Dread

By Brian Hyodo posted on April 20, 2019 | Posted in Clients, Diseases, Lamenesses

I love the animals I support. It’s like they are mine. They are close, trusting friends who afford me courtesy, respect and love every time they allow me to eliminate their first line of defense — running — when they give me their foot.

The Legacy of Change

By Jeremy McGovern posted on April 6, 2019

In the April 2019 issue of American Farriers Journal, we celebrate the legacy of Hall of Fame farrier John Marino, who passed away in March 2019. As you will see in the article in this issue, he had a tremendous impact on the farriers who knew him. He had a lengthy horseshoeing career that took him from the East Coast to the Lone Star State.

He Was My Best Teacher

By Mike Brookfield posted on March 23, 2019 | Posted in Clients, Education, Lamenesses, Therapeutic Shoeing

Our most important lessons as farriers often are learned through that one horse. These cases deliver an education that can’t be duplicated in any classroom. For me, that horse was Stretch.

Pacific Northwest Farrier Programs Facing the Axe

By Jeff Cota posted on March 2, 2019 | Posted in Education

It seems that primary farrier education is under fire in the Pacific Northwest.

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Rebranding Unwanted Horses

By Jeremy McGovern posted on February 2, 2019 | Posted in Business Practices, Clients

When there is an unpleasant reputation around something, one way to reshape public perception is by changing the common terminology used. For example, when West Side business people of New York City wanted to erase the rough and crime-ridden reputation of the historic neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, they declared it should be known as “Clinton.”

The Wisdom of an Old Farrier

By Ralph Hampton and Tamara Hampton posted on January 12, 2019 | Posted in Business Practices, Education

A bunch of young farriers stood looking down at a horse’s foot. They talked of what to do and how to do it, what measures to take to make the horse sound again, shaking their heads.

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Without a Will, Who’ll Get Your Shoeing Rig?

Let’s Wait Until Spring

More than a Century Later, Feds Terminate Horseshoe Antitrust Case

PAST Act Gets a Boost in the U.S. House

Answering the Question that All Farriers Dread

The Legacy of Change

He Was My Best Teacher

Pacific Northwest Farrier Programs Facing the Axe

Rebranding Unwanted Horses

The Wisdom of an Old Farrier

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