Corrective Farriery, vol. 1

This is a multi-author book written for farriers, veterinary surgeons and interested horse owners. The authors are eminent farriers, veterinary surgeons and related professionals from around the world. The book describes the combining of traditional farriery skills with veterinary knowledge and advanced techniques of repair and shoeing.

Over 300 pages and more than 400 colour illustrations take the reader through the diseases, conditions and conformational faults that affect the horse. The development of the leg and hoof is traced from an embryo to the mature horse. There are large chapters on laminitis and chronic foot lameness.

Topics include: anatomy, imaging the foot and leg, foot balance, development of the foot and leg, making hospital plate shoes, shoeing for conditions of the hind limb, injuries to the hoof capsule, laminitis.

About the editor

Dr. Simon Curtis has been a practicing farrier in Newmarket for 44 years. He has lectured and demonstrated farriery in more than 30 countries on 6 continents including the USA, Australia, India, Russia, and Brazil. He is an author of 4 text books on farriery. He has been published in numerous journals. Simon is the only farrier to have been awarded an Honorary Associateship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Farriers (2001-2002) and has chaired the Farriers Registration Council (2006-9). He is a Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Farriers by examination (FWCF) and is currently an examiner. Simon is a 4th generation farrier; his family have been farriers and blacksmiths on the Cambridgeshire and Suffolk border for at least 150 years. In 2005 Simon was inducted into the International Farriers Hall of Fame at the Kentucky Derby Museum. He gained a First Degree, Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Farriery through Myerscough College, University of Central Lancashire in 2011 and completed a PhD degree in Equine Physiology and Biomechanics in 2017. In 2018 Simon Curtis was presented with the Sir Colin Spedding award for his contribution to equine knowledge, and published The Hoof of the Horse.