An ideal gift for anyone involved with horses, this award-winning historic volume takes an informative, nostalgic and sometimes amusing look at the professional horseshoer. Based on a unique Kentucky Derby Museum exhibit, the booklet looks back at personalities involved in shoeing, early American shoeing prices, different types of shoes, the art of horseshoeing, makeup of the equine limb and a remarkable look at shoeing tools. An excellent gift for anyone involved with horses.

Here's a practical step-by-step guide for building a shoe display board that will help you further educate your shoeing clients, work toward possible farrier certification and undertake a great learning experience.

The in-depth shoeing advice presented over 100 years ago will help you place many of today's shoeing challenges in proper perspective. First published in 1894, the book outlines numerous rules for shoers based on David Roberge's 45 years of working with a footcare system in existence since 1850. Besides offering detailed advice in 18 general areas of shoeing, this valuable reference zeros in with detailed explanations on 424 specific items that still relate to your everyday shoeing concerns.

If you're on the lookout for reliable trimming and shoeing techniques, you'll have a hard time finding any footcare practices that have stood the test of time better than those featured in The Cavalry Horseshoer's Technical Manual.