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June 14, 2009

Annual Horse Show 2009, Penang

In the Annual Horse Show 2009 held in Penang Turf Club, one of the events was the Farriery competition. As explained in Wikipedia, farrier “is a specialist in the trimming and balancing of a horse's hoof and the placing of shoes to the horse's foot”. In this competition, we see more of the molding of the horse shoe instead. Anyway it was interesting to witness an event which can be hardly seen.

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IMG_4137The horse shoe is heated up super hot so that it can be moulded and polished

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IMG_4139 It need two strong guys to make a shoe

IMG_4140Ahhh, look where you swing the iron brush

IMG_4131All ready but nothing like Jimmy Choo’s design

IMG_4279 Can’t imagine such long nails sticking into the hoofs

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