Wigan man fined for illegal farriery
A Wigan man has been fined £300 by magistrates after pleading guilty to three charges of illegal farriery.
David Sargeant of Leigh Road, Atherton, admitted preparing a horse’s hoof for shoeing on 30 April and shoeing two horses on 9 July, when he appeared at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates Court on 6 November.
It is a crime for anyone other than a farrier, his apprentice or a vet to carry out farriery.
This article was first published in Horse & Hound (11 December, ’08)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.