She's as comfortable with a farrier as she is with presidents and prime ministers.

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In October, Ken Norman, the farrier from Pawlet, Vermont, came to trim the donkeys' hooves.

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She went behind the scenes to meet the horses and speak to the farrier making their shoes.

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If I had an agenda, like an approaching vet's or farrier's appointment, she'd trot out of reach.

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One farrier's wife from a Welsh mining community is organising six coaches for ordinary hunting supporters of all ages.

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As skilled as the large-animal vets were, I'd learned, nobody could read a donkey better than a farrier like Ken.

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One of the most innovative versions of a plastic shoe is the Imprint Therapeutic Shoe, made by Andrew Poynton, a high-tech farrier who works in Malmesbury, England.

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The application for a judicial review is being lodged by Countryside Alliance chairman John Jackson, farrier's wife Mair Hughes, from Rhondda, south Wales, and Bicester Hunt member Patrick Martin.

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Before they set hoof onto the snow they have to undergo a change of shoes, a feat made possible by farrier Christian Lampert, who replaces regular shoes with a set containing winter grips and a unique layer of silicone to prevent snow sticking to hooves.

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