Whose Behind "Wild About Hooves"
The Wild About Hooves Team
Jeremy Ford
Jeremy Ford, a farrier of 12 years is now a professional natural hoof care practitioner. He runs his practice in Tasmania and has a number of successful thoroughbred racing stables as his clients. After being introduced to barefoot trimming he has hung up his hammer and stored the anvil to promote healthy sound metal-shoe free horses.
Jeremy has been involved with horses all his life in all disciplines including hunting, endurance and stockwork. His encounters with wild Australian Brumbies in the outback were the major inspiration for the switch to barefoot. These horses have hooves hard, strong and able to cope with the hardest terrain. This natural world led him to study with the AANHCP (American Assoc of Natural Hoof Care Practitioners). He is the only qualified practitioner in Australia.
Jeremy currently runs educational workshops on hoof care. He is a consultant to a number of professional performance horse owners and developing a rehabilitation centre for lame horses. He is principal lecturer in the Equine Hoof Care course run by the government education institution, TAFE Tasmania.
Jen Clingly
Jen Clingly is an advocate for bare hooves. She and her horse, Imaj Zamir, have become a high profile barefoot endurance team. She was the first in Australia to successfully complete a 100 mile endurance ride, and the first in Australia to win an endurance ride outright on a barefoot horse. Their successful string of placings in endurance has proven time and time again that shoes are not necessary, even for long distance. She is passionate on her quest to educate others of the benefits of not shoeing horses.
Jen is currently working as a professional barefoot trimmer in Tasmania. She is a member of Tasmania’s Mounted Search and Rescue. She is a lecturer with TAFE Tasmania in the trade certificate 3 “Equine Hoof Care” course. Jen is also focusing on writing a book highlighting the healthy hoof and giving insight into training a barefoot performance horse. Jen is Jeremy’s right hand man (or more colloquially, his right hoof woman!)
Jen and Jeremy live in picturesque Golden Valley, Tasmania. They are wild about hooves and horsing around. They are also wild about their children, training endurance horses, trimming hooves and educating students keen to study natural hoof care and horsemanship.
Jen is proudly sponsered by Horse Connections and loves and uses the treeless saddles.
email:natalise@bigpond.com
Contact them:
Jeremyford5@bigpond.com
or
jenclingly@yahoo.com.au
Natural hoof care and education is the foundation to the “Wild About Hooves” business.