Horse & Hound

Hunting farrier

I don’t think I would have become a farrier if it weren’t for a wonderful man called Norman Crouch. He lived in Wiltshire near to where I grew up and he taught me to ride and then took me hunting with the South and West Wilts. As a child I would mess about on his farm at all waking hours.

He had broodmares, youngstock, stallions and point-to-pointers and he could

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