farrier at equifest

[fayeandash]

Does anybody kow who the farrier was at equifest??
I was stood outside the indoor arena with my daughter waiting for the first year first ridden class, and the farrier was attempting to put a shoe back on a shetland pony, i don't know how the hell he qualified to be a farrier, he completely f***ed up the job, the nails were way to big for the holes in the shoe, and the shoe had been put on totally wrong - too far back, when he had eventually finished the poor pony was walking on it's tip toe, and looked as though it had studs in as the nails stuck out so much, and he was going to leave it like this!! I suggested to the owner that she have him remove both shoes and sort it with her farrier when she got home, i have never seen such a terrible job of shoeing a pony, don't get me wrong, i'm no expert at farriery, but anybody could see what a balls he'd made of it, i was utterly disgusted!!
The poor jockey even missed her class as he took so long, didn't see what they eventually decided to do, but i hope they managed to get to their other classes with a comfortable pony.

[littlehorse]

I do hope that as well as bringing this up on this site you have advised the Equifest organisers of your concerns? otherwise they are not to know - and this is something that can easily be sorted before the next event

[fayeandash]

I'm not saying this is equifest's fault, i was just so shocked at what a terrible job he was doing, and he was going to leave the poor pony with the nails not flush against the underneith of the shoe, i really enjoyed equifest and can't wait for next year

[chardonnay]

We had the same farrier to replace a shoe on the first day. I do wish I'd got him to do both feet as he worked in a completely different way to my farrier and my pony looked a little odd afterwards. I don't think he was a bad farrier but he had an unusual technique. I do agree though that he set the shoes very far back and his nails were like studs!!!!

[dancer]

Aug 20, 2008 22:51:36 GMT chardonnay said:

We had the same farrier to replace a shoe on the first day. I do wish I'd got him to do both feet as he worked in a completely different way to my farrier and my pony looked a little odd afterwards. I don't think he was a bad farrier but he had an unusual technique. I do agree though that he set the shoes very far back and his nails were like studs!!!!

Why would you want him to do more feet if he set the shoes too far back, left the nails like studs & your pony looked odd afterwards?

[wendbarry1]

Perhaps so at least be evenly bad?

[thecremellosociety]

Must admit when i changed farriers from 10 years of old style ( never seemed to take much off or tidy inner hoof at all) to a new young farrier !! i was like oh my god hes chopping off my ponies feet !!!!! But in reality he was just doing really what should have been done, balancing the feet and dropping the heels more as he was upright ( seemed to get more & more stilletto type with old farrier up and up !!) Maybe he used his own method, but re the nails, sounds to me like he was using the wrong size, they sound like road mails are the only type that shouldnt fit flush to the shoe, and only 2 of them per show not in every hole, could you shetty not have made do without ? i am trying to keep my section a bare foot with 4 whites and they seem brill at the mo, we hack out and will be driving and will use equiboots for excessive road work.

[rightrein92]

ive had the same farrier for the last 8 years and i dont think id change, if i lose a show at a big shoe i get them to remove the other shoe rather then replace it, haha talk about having no trust xx