2009 NAFBAE International Team Horseshoeing Championships
2009 NAFBAE Int
Team Horseshoe
The Victorious English Team
Nicolas Guilliot (France)
England’s success at the Switzerland, USA and Wales. The event is apprentice teams. Tom and Carol Ryan had
International
organised by NAFBAE with assistance from effi ciently worked out the complicated scores,
many volunteers, stewards, judges, scorers, as ever.
A huge cheer greeted the news that the
England farriery team had taken the 30th
supporters and sponsors.
Before the winners were announced the two
International Team Horseshoeing Competition
Forge congratulates the winners, as well as the judges were given the opportunity to address
Championship from last year’s winners - Wales.
runners up, all of whom embraced NAFBAE’s the competitors. Ian Allison, said that he used
The prizegiving was the culmination of three
aims for the competition, namely to test the to think it was hard to compete until he had
days’ intense competition over the August bank
skills of forging and horseshoeing, and to accepted the opportunity to judge top class
holiday weekend. The individual competition promote excellence in farriery in a spirit of good competitions. Rob Renirie, farrier consultant to
was won by Billy Crothers (Wales) who took the sportsmanship and friendly competitions. the Dutch international equestrian teams, was
crown for the seventh time and after a seven-
At the prize giving dinner, NAFBAE President,
the second judge at the event. He agreed that
year interval – quite a feat. Billy was a member
Craig D’Arcy was able to offi cially welcome
judging was not easy, ‘some will be happy and
of last year’s winning welsh team.
the Association’s guests and to thank those
some will be sad’, he said, ‘but I hope you will
The International Team Horseshoeing who had worked so hard to make sure the
accept our decisions’. He agreed that the level
Championship is the pinnacle of the event went smoothly. He welcomed the fi rst
of the competition had been high and said that
farriery competition calendar. president of the German Farriers Association,
it was tough keeping concentration for three
Attracting the top competitors from 14
and thanked those teams who had brought
days. He said he liked to see teamwork, and
countries, the NAFBAE-organised event runs
apprentice teams to compete for the fi rst time
the skill involved in making unusual shoes and
over three gruelling days. It demands precision,
– Germany, England, Scotland and Wales. Wilf
this was were the International had a unique
speed and stamina with the competitors
Ford, he said, deserved special thanks as chief
fl avour, in that all countries had their own way of
under pressure from the moment they move
steward. Wilf, as ever, had done a great job,
shoeing and judging.
on to the shoeing fl oor. The 14 teams which ably assisted by Peter Ablett, Rodney Cranwell, The President then invited the Silver Sponsors
competed this year were: Belgium, the British Chuck Jones, Josh Ramsey, Cliff Barnes, - Louise Pehrsson of Mustad Hoofcare and
Army, Canada, England, France, Germany, Gary Burton, Steven Griffi n, Dominic Wolf, Karen Zetsche of Life Data Labs Inc - to
Holland, Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Chris Linssner and the German and Scottish present the prizes.
Congratulations to the
England team for winning the
30th NAFBAE International Team
Horseshoeing Competition!
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