Fran Jurga`s Hoof Blog: News from Hoofcare + Lameness

Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky will host the third International Equine Podiatry Conference.The doors to the forge are always open at the Rood & Riddle Equine Hospit...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2024/02/rood-and-riddle-equine-podiatry-conference-2024.html

Joe Alfano has been the horseshoer at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show in Harrisburg for 50 years. The horse show honored him this year by inducting him in the event's Hall of Fame. Joe is sh...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2023/11/horseshoer-joe-alfano-pennsylvania-national-horse-show-hall-of-fame.html.html

At England’s Staffordshire County Show earlier this month, British farrier Grant Moon, FWCF represented the Worshipful Company of Farriers in an inspection of Shire Horses entered to show. This...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2023/06/shire-horse-controversy-couping-horseshoe-grant-moon-farrier.html

On Saturday, the 2023 Kentucky Derby favorite was scratched from the big race, just hours before the horses headed to the starting gate. Two-year-old champion Forte stayed in the barn that aftern...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2023/05/forte-hoof-bruise-kentucky-derby-scratch.html

Ian Davies, DipWCF is hard at work in his new job.The British-born and British-educated farrier has joined the University of California School of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Medical Teach...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2023/04/ucdavis-farrier-ian-davies-new-vet-school-hospital.html

Human patients use them--why not horses? Therapy devices don't always translate for parallel use between humans and horses, but a system developed at a US veterinary college may bring relief for ...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2023/03/research-supports-compression-treatment.html

You might have heard that the Budweiser Clydesdales will be missing from your television screens at Super Bowl LVII this Sunday in Arizona. The St Louis brewer will not run its traditional, ...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2023/02/PETA-vs-Budweiser%20-Clydesdale-Super-Bowl-docked-tail.html

The world watched Swedish barefoot show jumpers sweep the individual and team gold medals at the FEI World Championships in August in Herning, Denmark. At the same event, the media received a pre...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/09/swedish-barefoot-vs-shod-showjumper.html

History was made at the FEI 2022 World Championships in Herning, Denmark in August. After the first two rounds of jumping, three of the top four horses on the scoreboard were shoeless. And at the...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/08/barefoot-show-jumpers-FEI-world-champions.html

We all know horse owners who can recite entire pedigrees, race records, or a lifetime of judges' scores. But veterinarians and farriers would prefer that owners have the history of their horses�...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/08/prevent-laminitis-insulin-EMS-wellness-ready.html

Last week's ECCO FEI World Championships in Herning, Denmark, made farrier history when the event entered into an agreement with Mustad Hoofcare Group, who became the FEI's first  "Official ...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/08/mustad-herning.html

Badminton Farriers Prize 2022: Jim Blurton breaks recordsThe Badminton Horse Trials, presented by Mars Equestrian, is one of only seven five-star three-day events in the world, and the only one t...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/05/badminton-farriers-prize-2022-jim-blurton.html

History-loving and history-making horseshoer Bill Miller died today in Seattle, Washington. According to his close friend Dave Duckett, the 96-year-old had been moved to hospice care after being ...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/05/history-loving-and-history-making.html

Rood & Riddle Equine Podiatry ConferenceApril 14-16, 2022Spy Coast Farm Equine Education Center Lexington, KentuckyLate breaking news! Attention, veterinarians: 19.5 hours of RACE contin...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/04/preview-rood-riddle-equine-podiatry-conference.html

New federally-mandated racing safety rules from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority will be introduced "feet first" this summer. The first new rules are primed to take effect on July 1...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/03/new-hisa-rules-thoroughbred-horseshoe-traction.html

US-based research in equine lameness continues to move forward with today's announcement of new and continuing projects to be funded in 2022 by the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation.The Fou...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/03/grayson-jockey-club-research-foundation.html

Shane Westman at work in his forge at the University of California Davis Large Animal Clinic.The movement to bring more data-driven science to the care of horses’ hooves is surging forward, and...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2022/02/uc-davis-farrier-shane-westman-awarded.html

Everyone has questions about the shoeless Swedish showjumpers that have been so successful at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Sweden won the Team Gold Medal Saturday, as a followup to rider Peder Fredri...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2021/08/olympic-hoof-explained-swedish-barefoot.html_0275753620.html

Ears up: Sweden won the team gold medal! Watch for Fran's followup interview with Swedish team farrier Peter Glimberg on his hybrid professional hoofcare management program for Peder Fredricson's...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2021/08/olympic-barefoot-hoof-all-in-sweden-peder-fredericson-tokyo.html

Farriers love to argue about the ideal shoe -- concave or flat?-- for a three-day event horse, but when it comes time to shoe a horse for the Olympics, what do they actually do? UK farrier Jim Bl...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-olympic-gold-medal-hoof-concave.html

Note: This story was provided to Hoofcare Publishing by the media relations service of the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), the international governing body of equestrian sports, and w...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-olympic-hoof-fei-salutes-farriers_01803788973.html

Two distinct styles of horseshoes dominate the sport of eventing, one based in Britain and one in Europe. There is no middle ground, or wasn't, until the US eventing team prepared to embark for T...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2021/07/olympic-hoof-eventing-concave.html

Horseshoes, like Olympic medals, can be made from different metals. But this week in Tokyo, the world saw that they can also be made of plastic...and help bring home a medal.For Team USA in the T...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2021/07/olympic-hoof-plastic-horseshoe-dressage-Tokyo.html

A dressage horse representing South Africa has been withdrawn from the Olympics after developing laminitis at the Olympic Equestrian Center outside Tokyo. (Hoofcare.com file photo; this is not th...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-olympic-laminitic-hoof-dressage.html

Renate Weller, an educator and leader in the equine veterinary field in Europe, will become the new Dean of the University of Calgary Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Canada this September.Well-...

http://hoofcare.blogspot.com/2021/05/renate-weller-dean-university-calgary-veterinary-medicine.html