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Imprint Sport’s first birthday
Imprint Sport shoes has celebrated its first birthday, and the
successes keep racking up, the company reports. Horses in all
disciplines are finding new form, they say, as a result of being fitted
with the revolutionary stick-on shoe. Not just a substitute for nails,
the shoe mimics the elasticity and shock absorbing properties of
the natural horn, becoming an extension of the hoof. Developed by
Andrew Poynton, FWCF, and a leading polymer chemist, the highly
durable plastics formula brings new meaning to ‘hot shoeing’. Applied
in a warmed, softened state, the shoe can be moulded to the foot
and finely adjusted, before coating with ‘freezer spray’ to fix it in
place.
Horse owners across the disciplines being converted to the Imprint
Sport shoe include eventing legend, Jane Holderness-Roddam. ‘We
have been running one horse with problem feet, for a year now in the
Imprint Sport shoes. He didn’t have much confidence and was inclined
to slip. His movement has improved greatly; he seems very happy
in them, very confident, and as a result is much more relaxed in his
work. We now have three horses running in Imprint Sport, and it was
a testament to them when the ground was like glue at Hatherleigh;
Jonathan Nunn DipWCF receives the 500th certificate from Andrew Poynton
we would not have been surprised to lose one, but our runner finished
well, all shoes intact!’
Staffordshire farriers, Jonathan Nunn, DipWCF. ‘I have been on more
Luckley-based trainer Martin Keighley was delighted with a recent win
than one of Andrew’s training courses, however, his products are
from Rodrigo Gonzales who stormed home under Warren Marston.
constantly evolving, and I always learn something new. I have been
‘Gonzo has very brittle feet and we have been unable to keep
using Imprint Sport for sometime, and my clients have been pleased
traditional shoes on him, but Imprint Sport has done the trick. Without
with the results. Good preparation of the hoof is essential, but once this
them he would not have been able to run as he was too sore with is in place, application of the shoe is straightforward,’ he said.
nails.’
For more information about the Imprint Sport shoe contact
Meanwhile, farriers continue to train in the application of the shoes; Imprint Equine Foot Care, telephone 01666 822953,
the 500 th Imprint training certificate was recently presented to email info@imprintsport.com, www.imprintsport.com
Ambrit Software.
Business awareness at Myerscough
Ambrit software has announced a new partnership with Myerscough
AmBrit Software
College to provide Block 5 apprentices with a lecture on business
awareness twice a year. The first lecture is due to take place at the
beginning of December 2009.
Using its flagship product, Farriers Manager, the lectures will focus on
Equine Data Management
how the financial aspect of running a farrier business can be made
easier, thereby ensuring that farriers retain full control of their business.
Besides supporting the apprentice course, Myerscough College
will also incorporate the software into the business module of its
foundation degree.
Peter Ablett, training director of the Farrier Training Agency said, ‘this Farriers Manager
worthwhile partnership will clearly benefit the long-term business skills
of apprentice farriers’.
This partnership provides a unique teaching and learning tool as both
apprentices and established farriers will be shown the practical aspect
Practice management
to business management using information they would be used to on
a daily basis.
made easy for
Ambrit Software offers an educational role besides its commercial
interest, and is delighted to be working with the college. As part of the professional farrier
this working relationship, Ambrit Software has generously said that the
college can run free copies of Farriers Manager so that the apprentices
can use the software in their course work. The company aims to
ensure that the software becomes an increasingly integrated part of
the course.
20% discount
Although computers and farriery have not been seen as natural
for NAFBAE members
partners in the past, this working relationship is vindication that
information technology is now considered an important and integral
Free demo available at
part of the modern farrier practice. By the use of the software, the
www.farriersmanager.com
‘chore’ of keeping financial control of the business, can be directly
Sandra Norman: +44 (0)1502 717582
related to the day-to-day running of a farrier practice, and by using of
practical and entertaining examples the learning process should be
Email: sales@farriersmanager.com
made much easier.
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obtained from the companies concerned in good faith and has not been independently verified.
42 Forge | October 2009
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