When treating compromised capsules, often concussive application or risk of infection is not an option. Add more modalities to your tool box for when diagnosis strikes.
This multi-product workshop begins with case studies and demonstrations followed by a choose-your-own-workstation to practice application.
It’s essential to learn how to rethink our approach when faced with damaged laminae, broken walls, bone bruising, capsule swelling, strained soft tissue, and synovial inflammation.
The customization and availability of metal is undeniably excellent.
Yet in many remedial cases, nailing can worsen injuries, increase pain, and slow healing by causing additional trauma to compromised feet. It can also create tracks for infection, especially when there’s laminae damage.
In these situations, glue-on shoes or composite materials can offer protection and support without adding mechanical stress — a crucial advantage when the hoof is already under strain.
Be prepared when diagnosis strikes.
This hands-on workshop starts with case studies and tips, followed by a chance to explore three modern material products yourself on an artificial or cadaver limb.
This session will cover:
Kelvin is the owner of The Shoeing Lab and has been a farrier for nearly forty years and has served as the British Team Farrier for Endurance GBR since 1992, supporting teams at six World Equestrian Games, twelve European Championships, six World Cups, and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
He has won Bronze and Silver Shoeing Awards from the WCF and over 35 Best Shod titles.
The equestrian teams he’s worked with have won Bronze, Silver, and Gold medals.
He is the resident farrier at Hartpury Therapy Centre (since 1996), lectures at Hartpury College, and works with ten veterinary practices. He’s been a trusted second opinion for farriers and vets since 1988 and has trained over twenty apprentices.
Kelvin runs Sandpitt Forge, a busy practice serving horses across all disciplines and levels.
He’s developed sport horseshoes and orthotics now used in scientific trials and runs regular clinics for farriers and owners.
He has worked across Europe and the Middle East and advises clients in the UK and abroad.
Chris is a professional Master farrier qualified to Associate level, one of only around 400 world wide. He’s also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. Chris specialises in all aspects of shoeing and trimming from performance horses to remedial work from shire horses to shetlands.
Jeff Townsend-Berridge belongs to the genus farrierus incognitous. They are part craftsman, part outlaw, and 100% unreachable by text, voice message, WhatsApp, phone call, intense telepathic urging, and even carrier pigeon.
When not avoiding telegrams from clinic organisers for biography details, Jeff is said to commune with hooves on a spiritual level, diagnosing pathology by the smell of the frog alone.
Known in select circles as The Glue Guru, Jeff remains shrouded in mystery, dutifully upholding a lifelong vow of technological resistance like any farrierus incognitous should.
Legend has it he once replied to a text in 2013 but only because someone printed it out and taped it to his anvil. Responding only with a thumbs-up emoji — this species’ native tongue — the sender eventually perished of a common ailment, impatienceous frustrateis, while awaiting an actual answer.
If you want to learn more about Jeff’s origin story, come to this clinic to meet this mystical, magical Glue Guru in real life.
