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~ Canadian Distributor of Durasole
Services include:
◊ Hot & Cold Shoeing
◊ Heart & Bar Shoes
◊ Flat & Wedge Pads
◊ Flat, Rolled, & Rocker Shoes
◊ Clips, Studs, or chalks
◊ Mini to Draft Horses
◊ Analysis & Advice on Keeping your
Horse of Sound Foot
◊ Giving your Horse only what your
Horse Needs
◊ A Willingness to Address your
personal concerns
Bradley SaintJohn having
received a Certificate of Completion in Advanced Farrier
Training by Kwantlen University College in June of 2002 and has been shoeing
horses for nearly eight years, and, has a fine complement of
clientele, that is well pleased with his work. From
Miniature Horses and donkeys, through mountain pack teams,
Jumpers, Dressage, Draught (Draft animals), Hunters, Eventers,
American Saddlebred and pleasure horses, Bradley takes
the gentle approach Knowing that there are reasons a horse
may be difficult. Bradley had apprenticed with Glen Dragan
for six months each in two separate years. Glen works with
many breeds, focusing on the Five Gaited Saddlebred horse. Bradley was to be the event Farrier in the spring at the 18th
Show of the "American Saddlebred Association of B.C."
That was in 2003. Repeating '04 '05 and into '06.
Four years of shoeing gaited horses in the ring, and out,
has been exhilarating, and Educational.
Short Biography
Spending summers, in his youth, at the ranch at Maple Creek Saskatchewan.
Driving cattle, branding, gelding horses, and delousing cattle, and after years
of desiring to be a blacksmith, Bradley got serious, and sold his live aboard
55’ clipper-bow Ketch sail boat, the "Beverly Anne M" and went to horseshoeing school for a year.
Bradley says:
Concerning the horse ". . . above all else, I like to see the horse made to be as
comfortable as possible, and to move with an effortless gait."
His Clients have said:
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"My horse has never, in nine years of my ownership, moved so well"
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"After your first visit, the trainer at our barn said, 'Cecil, I’ve never seen
Laddie move so well', thank-you for correcting him"
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approaches his work with a great deal of professionalism, and has quickly gained
the confidence of several of our more difficult horses. I would have no
hesitation in recommending his Farrier Services"
