JOHN McAteer is an Irish Master Farrier from Navan, Co Meath. His daily work mainly consists of racehorses, broodmares and foals and sales horses. He does, however, cover all aspects of equine hoof care in the greater Meath area.

Over the last number of years, John has been fortunate to work with some interesting horses, who posed unique challenges when it came to shoeing them and helping them to return to soundness: here he shares two cases.