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1 The Association s Goal is for Advancement through Education & Communication Schedule of Events Judge- Travis Koons CJF. Each competitor must supply a freestanding workstation including fire extinguisher, and use 20lb propane bottles. No trucks will remain in the arena. Competitors must supply a horse holder. Friday, October 13 th - Heritage Park Arena Across Hwy #1 from Best Western 7:00am-8:00am 8:00am 8:30am Setup & Warm up Judge s Meeting Classes Start 7:00pm-9:30pm Reception & Tradeshow - Best Western Fraser and Heritage Rooms *food and drinks available ************ Saturday, October 14 th - Best Western Inn 7:00-9:00am AGM Breakfast Meeting 9:00-10:30 AM Vedder Room Travis Koons CJF. Part I Full Circle Horseshoeing, balancing hooves, life and family with a basic no BS approach

2 10:45-12:00 PM Vedder Room Mitch Taylor CJF, AWCF, APF - Structure and function of the lower leg. 12:00-2:30 PM Fraser and Heritage Room Trade Show 2:30-4:00 PM Vedder Room Mitch Taylor CJF, AWCF, APF. Leg dissection. 6:30-9:00PM Vedder & Heritage Rooms Cash Bar and Banquet. ************ Sunday, October 15 th - Best Western Inn 9:00 10:30 AM Vedder Room Travis Koons CJF. Part II Full Circle Horseshoeing. 10:45 12:15 AM Vedder Room Walt Taylor AWCF, APF- Equine locomotion, highspeed videos. 12:30 3:30 PM Heritage Park Arena Shoeing and forging demos Shoeing entry deadline is Oct.1 (no exceptions) Questions contact Jamie Poulos j.poulos@shaw.ca Specimens EAGLE EYE TBA All Divisions CLASS 1 (45 MIN) SPORTHORSE SHOES All Divisions to make a pair of concave warmblood shoes. RF will be made to accommodate a clubby foot, LF will be made to accommodate a low foot. DIV 1 RF: 13 x3/8 x7/8 LF: 13 ½ x3/8 x7/8 Punch for 6 E5 slim Liberty nails, bob punched toe clips and rocker toe. DIV 2 - REVERSE AND GRADUATED SHOES RF: 13 ¾ x7/16 x7/8 concave LF: 15 x7/16 x7/8 concave Punch for 7 E7 Delta nails RF reverse graduated, LF slightly wedged 2 degrees bob punched toe clips with rocker toe. DIV 3 SIDE BONE SHOES RF: 14 x7/16 x7/8 concave LF: 14 ½ x7/16 x7/8 concave wedged medial branch and rolled lateral branch. Punch for 6 E6 Delta nails, 4 nails medial branch and 2 nails lateral branch. Bob punched toe clips with stud holes behind the widest part of the foot. CLASS 2 (70 MIN) - THERAPEUTIC FORGING CLASS ALL DIVISIONS Forge a shoe for a sheared hoof capsule. Medial branch will be wedged similar to the side bone shoe. The wedge will be into the foot plane and level on ground surface which will allow for trimming of the sheared medial heel down to the correct height. DIV 1 RF shoe will have a wedged medial branch and rolled lateral branch 12 ¾ x3/8 x3/4 plain stamped for 6 E4 Liberty slim nails with hammer drawn toe clip. LH simple hind bar shoe plain stamped with 3 nails on the lateral side and 2 on the medial side E3 Liberty slim nails hammer drawn toe clip. Hammer finished out of 14 x3/8 x3/4.

DIV 2 LF shoe wedged medial branch and rolled lateral branch.

ontop of the ground. 13 ½ x3/8 x1 fullered and punched for 7 E6 slim Liberty nails, rounding hammer toe clips, hammer finished.

DIV 3 LF 14 x5/8 square front bar shoe for a badly sheared hoof capsule and frog.

branch will be narrowed to allow it to sink into the ground surface.

The medial branch will be stamped. Punch for 6 E5 slim Liberty nails. Hind shoe made to help rehab an injured suspensory ligament.

Toe will be full width and branches will be drawn down to ¾ width and concave on the ground surface from just behind the second nail.

3 DIV 2 LF shoe wedged medial branch and rolled lateral branch. The medial branch will be narrowed on the ground surface to facilitate sinking into the ground while the lateral will be wider to keep the branch ontop of the ground. 13 ½ x3/8 x1 fullered and punched for 7 E6 slim Liberty nails, rounding hammer toe clips, hammer finished. RH bar shoe 14 ½ x3/8 x3/4 concave bob punched toe clip, safed toe punched for 6 E4 slim Liberty nails. DIV 3 LF 14 x5/8 square front bar shoe for a badly sheared hoof capsule and frog. Medial branch to be wedged from toe nail through the central sulcus of the frog (the wedge will go toward the foot) the ground surface of the medial branch will be narrowed to allow it to sink into the ground surface. The bearing surface of the medial branch will be ¾ wide, the lateral branch will be 7/8 wide and shall be fullered. The medial branch will be stamped. Punch for 6 E5 slim Liberty nails. Hind shoe made to help rehab an injured suspensory ligament. Made from 1 ¼ x3/8 x12 ½ fullered and punched for 6 E5 slim Liberty nails with hammer drawn toe clip. Toe will be full width and branches will be drawn down to ¾ width and concave on the ground surface from just behind the second nail. DIV 2 SHOEING (70 MIN) FRONT FEET shod with concave for trail. Toe clip and appropriate nails DIV 3 (70 MIN) HIND FEET shod with flat stock ¾ fullered quarter clips, appropriate nails. Travis Koons, CJF Clinicians/Judges I am the father of two wonderful, healthy, and smart children. Cadence Koons is my beautiful little cowgirl who just wants me to spend all my time with her. Caleb Koons is my little cowboy who likes to boss everyone around and break stuff! My lovely wife Nicole Koons runs the show and keeps us all in clean clothes and out of serious trouble!

My dad, Keith Koons is one of the greatest horsemen to swing a leg over a horse or crawl under one. He taught me to trim, shoe, break, train, ride, and just plain survive horses.

4 My dad, Keith Koons is one of the greatest horsemen to swing a leg over a horse or crawl under one. He taught me to trim, shoe, break, train, ride, and just plain survive horses. My mom, Eileen Coronado is also a great hand with horses. She taught me the finer points of horsemanship including breeding horses for conformation and performance. She taught me foaling and the ground-up approach to making a good horse from the day it hits the ground. As a Farrier I have had an amazing journey! I had the honor of learning from the legends of the trade. The list is too long to include in entirety but to name a few, Bob Marshall, Craig Trnka, Shayne Carter, Jim Keith, Dallas Morgan, Jim Poor, Jay Sharp, Jim Quick, Austin Edens, Bill Poor, Mark Milster, and Roy Bloom have had an enormous impact on me. They are due a debt of gratitude for what they have done for Farriery. The focus of my farrier practice is to try and execute the basics of horseshoeing as simply and perfectly as possible. This has served me and the horses I care for well over the years. As a competitor I have the fortune of being included in some of the most accomplished teams in American horseshoeing history. I was on the AFT in I was a proud member of the WCB team from , , and as the alternate in Here are a few of the magic moments : 2007: Won the 4 man draft shoeing at the Calgary Stampede WCBC 2009: Won the AFA Convention 2 man draft shoe making 2010: Won the 2 man light draft shoeing at the Calgary Stampede WCBC 2011: Vector NACC Champion at the AFA Convention 2012: With the WCB Team, won the World Horseshoeing Classic 2014 AFA Clinician of the Year 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 WCB National Champion 4 time West Coast Triple Crown Champion I consider myself lucky to be asked to judge my fellow farriers and to be able to share with farriers, veterinarians, and all equine professionals as a clinician. I am honored to spread knowledge that has been handed down to me. I would never have guessed that shoeing horses would take me around the globe and introduce me to many amazing people. It is a rare and unique profession that is both honoring and humble. It will give back as much as is given to it. I am lucky to have met people who influence me to give it all I have. Mitch Taylor, CJF, AWCF A member of the American Farrier Association Hall of Fame, Mitch Taylor began his farrier training in 1975, has been an AFA Certified Journeyman Farrier since 1982, and earned the AWCF in After receiving his primary farrier training at Colorado Mountain College, Mitch served his apprenticeship in Southern California, specializing in jumping and dressage horses. As a professional farrier, Taylor has shod horses across the USA, shoeing in a wide variety of disciplines. Combining his academic background with his passion for farriery, his practice has ultimately has specialized in the treatment of lameness and foot imbalance in horses. Mitch received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and Chemistry from Western State College of Colorado and did his postgraduate work in Equine Physiology at the University of Kentucky. While working on his Master Degree at UK, Mitch worked as an assistant to James Rooney, PhD, the former Director of the Maxwell Gluck Equine Research Center and noted equine biomechanics author. Taylor s Master s Thesis was published in the Journal of Animal Science. Since that time, Mitch has continued to pursue his interest in equine research by continually investigating equine biomechanics and how that is affected through various shoeing modalities.

5 Mitch is a frequent speaker at Veterinary Conferences, lecturing on Equine Anatomy and Biomechanics. Among those conferences are the N.E. Association of Equine Practitioners annual conference, the Brazilian Jockey Club, the International Veterinarian and Farrier Conference in Bergamo, Italy, The school of Veterinary Sciences in Upsalla, Sweden, the University of Hanover, Germany, the University of Pretoria School of Veterinary Science in Pretoria, South Africa, and the Florida Association of Equine Practitioners, The Laminitis Symposium in West Palm Beach, Florida, Tufts University Veterinary School of Veterinary Science, Cornell University Veterinary School, and the Colorado State University Veterinary College. Over the past 30 years, Mr. Taylor has lectured and judged at numerous farrier events worldwide, speaking on equine anatomy and biomechanics, physiological foot preparation and shoeing modalities, while often judging horseshoeing competitions as a noted authority on correct shoeing technique. Some of the most notable events have been at the Werkman Spring Games, in the Netherlands, the Mustad Farrier Conference in Melbourne, Australia, in Segovia, Spain, at the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the Turkish Jockey Club, in Stoneleigh, England, Mexican National Horse Congress in Mexico City, and the International Farrier Conference in Bergamo, Italy. Since 1989, Mitch has been the Director of the KHS in Richmond, Kentucky, and in 2007 and 2011 received the AFA s Educator of the Year award as well as the Clinician of the year award for Most recently, Mitch was named the Rising Star Instructor by the Kentucky Association of Career Colleges & Schools for Among his many successful students, Mitch is proud to count at least 10 students who have qualified as national horseshoeing team members, as well as students who have earned positions with various US Equine teams, leading veterinary hospitals, University Veterinary schools and shod Kentucky Derby Winners. CONFERENCE LOCATION Best Western- Rainbow Country Inn Industrial Way, Chilliwack, BC V2R 3A WCFA Conference Room Rates: Single or Double $ Continental Breakfast included. Kids 2-15 years old stay free To access these rates quote, Farrier. Rooms Limited- book early Overflow: Hampton Inn Contacts: Steve Dixon -Tradeshow steve_dixon@telus.net Rick Higginson -Conference rickhigginson@gmail.com Please make cheques payable to Western Canadian Farriers Association Forward to WCFA Fall Conference c/o Mary Blackstock, nd Street Maple Ridge, B.C. V2W 1R1 or pay online at

6 REGISTRATION NAME ADDRESS PHONE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OF FEES Shoeing entry deadline is Oct.1 (no exceptions) WCFA & FAWS After Oct. 1/17 Members [ ] $125 [ ]$150 Non-members [ ] $155 [ ]$180 One day only [ ] $80 [ ]$90 COMPETITION Div 1 Div2 Div3 [ ]$30 [ ]$120 [ ]$160 Shirt Size [ ] Banquet $35 WCFA MEMBERSHIP Apprentice or student [ ] $67 Full [ ] $90 TOTAL=

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