History of the World Championship Blacksmiths

The WCB was formed in the spring of 2006 as a membership based organization born from an idea that company CEO, Craig Trnka had been kicking around for years. The WCB founders wanted to produce horseshoeing competitions at venues where there was horse owning public to show and educate that a well educated farrier is a powerful tool - the only equine professional who sees the horse on a six week rotation in a non crisis situation.

The first ever and original Super Clinic took place in a covered arena in Houston Texas in January of 2007. Over 200 farriers from across the country gathered to take part in this first ever of its kind event and to preview what the WCB was going to be about!

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World Championship Blacksmiths Membership

• Free Super Clinic with top hands from the farrier community
• Free Fall Clinic where you can show up with your hand tools and work in the forge
• Free pre-contest clinics (4 per season)
• Discounts on some of the best tools and equipment in the industry, as well as apparel and farrier related accessories
• Huge discount on PFERD Hoof Planes
• Frequent member communications
• Unique competition set up
• Promotion of our members to over 500,000 horse owners
• Interactive technical advice on the WCB Forum

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Why Hire a Member of World Championship Blacksmiths?

• A WCB member is a farrier who is concerned about learning everything they can in order to be able to take care of your horses’ feet in the best way possible.
• WCB members believe in continuing education.
• WCB members belong to a community of farriers with a wealth of knowledge that each member can draw upon.
• WCB members believe in our friends, the horse – part of a poem reminds us: no foot, no horse!
• You can expect professionalism and ethical behavior from WCB members.
• WCB members believe in tradition while acknowledging that innovative ideas are on the horizon.

The Latest News from WCB:

Congratulations to Iain Ritchie who was the overall winner at the Edgewood competition! Trey Green made a fierce rush to win the Mercury Match Play championship. Ben Taylor of Bury, England was the Category 3 winner, Chad Chance was the Category 2 winner, Seth Whiteley was the Category 1 winner and Tyler Parker was the winner of the Tosaky Forge Novice Class.
Congratulations to everyone who competeted - it was a really cool weekend for the WCB!