Shoeing at the ringside
' One of the six or seven prac- • rising blacksmiths left in Can- ; terbury set un forge and anvil ' outside the ring yesterday to provide an emergency sen ice for • horses. ’ Mr Stewart Shaw, of Highbank. 1 has run the ringside shoe stall for six years. Since the show be- • can on Wednesday, he has fitted shoes. 1 His service is mainly for • horses which lose shoes unex- • oectedly and whose performance I in the ring might suffer as a re--5 suit. t Mr Shaw spent an hour and a s half vesterdas shoeing a Clydes- • dale, the iob being finished only • five minutes before the horse t was railed into the ring — to . win the championship. i Mr Shaw initial!* provided the , service out of good will. His 1 charges did not cover his costs v and he was not well known. The last six years, however B have huilt him a greater reputa- , Hon. Business at the grounds has ? increased each year, and next - \ear he will have a shed to work in.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34000, 14 November 1975, Page 11
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