Born a city boy in St. Paul, Robert McKinnell has found his passion in shoeing and trimming horse hooves. He's a farrier who travels the region from his home in Erhard, Minn., to perform his job.

Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like anvils from a ...

Watch the precise craft of a farrier at work — from hot shoe fitting to balancing hooves for peak performance. Mark Green resigns from Congress, further shrinking House GOP majority Tom Troupe dead: ...

METHUEN — The 10 draft horses surrendered to the MSPCA at Nevins Farm in late June took a big step forward in their recovery on Wednesday with a special visit from area farriers. Farriers are ...

Local farrier Wayne Lamoly won the first position in the keg shoe division at the 20th annual Draft Horse Classic and Harvest Fair last month in Grass Valley. Lamoly, a resident of Big Oak Valley near ...

Hesse Leiphart’s work as a farrier takes him from Zephyrhills in Pasco County to Manatee, Sarasota, Hernando, Hillsborough and Lee counties, where he shoes and trims the hooves of horses and cows. He ...

Tolley Marney works like an old-fashioned blacksmith. He heats found steel in a one-foot-square forge until it glows pale orange, then holds it with tongs against an anvil. He pounds precisely with a ...

PHILADELPHIA — Sweat dripped from Sonny Pistilli’s nose and evaporated on the red-hot horseshoe he’d taken out of a burning forge. He’d been pounding steel with a mallet for two hours, his hands like ...