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A profile of our instructor from the Fall 2003 Veterinary Magazine
Iron Man:
Horses are a study in improbability. Their bodies are massive, commonly weighing 1,000 pounds or more. Set on long, thick necks, their huge heads serve as counterweights to their hind ends, causing them to look something like oil derricks pumping up and down as they canter. All that mass is held up by four spindly columns of bone that have to line up just so as they pass through a series of delicate- looking joints. Underneath those columns, where the rubber meets the road, so to speak, everything - including the fate of the horse - rests on four overgrown toenails called hooves. Far, far too many times to count, a diseased or injured hoof has spelled the end of an otherwise vital animal.
Miranda Paton thinks a lot about equine mechanics as she rides her show hunter, Lobster. As Paton discourses on the selection pressures that have led horses to evolve as the powerful but precariously built creatures that they are, Michael Wildenstein, Cornell's resident farrier, is giving two veterinary students a leg-by-leg tour of Lobster's special kinks and quirks. <more>
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Farrier Program
The College of Veterinary Medicine is proud to offer two courses in farriery. The General Farrier Short Course and the Advanced Farrier Course. The program is housed in the Equine and Farm Animal Hospital of the Cornell University Hospital for Animals.
Participants will experience daily interaction with veterinarians and the resident farrier working on in-patient lameness cases. Horses are also referred directly to the Farrier Shop from outside veterinarians for the application of special shoes.
Both courses are taught by Michael Wildenstein, Cornell's resident farrier and the only American farrier that is certified as a fellow with honors of distinction of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. The program also provides an excellent instructor-student ratio of 1:3, allowing for close individual instruction.
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