Born a city boy in St. Paul, Robert McKinnell has found his passion in shoeing and trimming horse hooves. He's a farrier who travels the region from his home in Erhard, Minn., to perform his job.

Do you think your horse moves a bit unevenly after a trim? You might be right. Researchers recently showed that while routine farriery care had little influence overall on horses' movement, horses do ...

MONTGOMERY –Without a hoof you have no horse. That’s what farrier Jessica N. Lowman says. She knew when she was 12 that she wanted to be a farrier. “I’ve always known that horses were my passion in ...

Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like anvils from a ...

METHUEN — The 10 draft horses surrendered to the MSPCA at Nevins Farm in late June took a big step forward in their recovery on Wednesday with a special visit from area farriers. Farriers are ...

Local farrier Wayne Lamoly won the first position in the keg shoe division at the 20th annual Draft Horse Classic and Harvest Fair last month in Grass Valley. Lamoly, a resident of Big Oak Valley near ...

Tolley Marney works like an old-fashioned blacksmith. He heats found steel in a one-foot-square forge until it glows pale orange, then holds it with tongs against an anvil. He pounds precisely with a ...