WG Farrier Services

30/05/2024

So lovely to feel appreciated by top clients! ☕️

24/12/2023

Happy Christmas! Thank you to all my clients for providing me with awesome horses, Ponies and donkeys to work on.
I have been spoilt with so many gifts this year. I really appreciate your generosity.
I wish you and your equines all the best for 2024 and here’s to another great year!
Cheers Robbie

14/09/2023

Link to my just giving page to raise some much needed funds for this brilliant local charity who help children with extra needs & their families every day. 🌈🔥
Allsorts Gloucestershire

Help Sian Thomas raise money to support Allsorts

18/08/2023

Robbie Watson-Greaves is taking part in the Allsorts Gloucestershire Charity Firewalk to raise money for this wonderful local charity.

The main event takes place at 7.30pm with activities to get involved in from 5.30pm including face painting, jumbo board games, human fruit machine and music to keep everyone busy before he walks across the hot coals bare foot!

Friday 29th September – 5.30pm – 9.30pm
Stonehouse Court Hotel, Bristol Road, Stonehouse, Stroud, GL10 3RA

Robbie would like to raise as much as possible for Allsorts so please sponsor him generously! Either get in touch via this page or speak to him when he next visits you.

Feel free to share. Thanks for your support!

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20/04/2023

The barefoot ‘debate’ is not a new one. However, with a number of elite performance horses now competing at the very highest levels without shoes the subject has once more come to the fore. The argument to shoe or not to shoe is rarely black and white and, at times when it is, is unethical. Equi...

18/09/2022

Congratulations to Sam Gillespie Eventing for completing his first CCI4*L at Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials with a strong performance in each phase & achieving an all important qualifying result. 🐴🍾
To top off a great weekend I won the Best Shod Horse Award for my handmade shoes on Sam’s horse But Not Till Now who I have shod for several years. 💪🏻🔨

24/12/2021

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!

Thank you for always providing me with sparkly clean, well behaved horses and another big thankyou for all the Christmas gifts this year!
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For now though, Joseph, Fred the donkey and the kings are off to Bethlehem and will be back in the New Year.

Stay safe & keep those shoes on.. 🎄

12/05/2020

An update for Clients

I will be returning to work adhering to the following guidance. Please get in touch to arrange an appointment. 🐴🔨

It is agreed that the Farriers Registration Council’s interpretation of the Government’s updated guidance is that Registered Farriers may provide Farriery services to equines by arrangement with equine owners and with the following provisos:

▪️Any Registered Farrier showing the symptoms of coronavirus should immediately follow the NHS guidance on Covid-19 at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ and must not practise farriery.

▪️Registered Farriers should rigorously follow the guidance on social distancing, maintaining the 2m distance between humans while conducting Farriery at all times and in all locations.

▪️Registered Farriers should regularly wash their hands with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds, and clean their tools and equipment, including between consultations.

▪️Where Registered Farriers use Personal Protective Equipment, including face masks, this should be disposed of in accordance with the manufacturers’ instructions and otherwise responsibly.

▪️If challenged by the Police or other law enforcement agency Registered Farriers should present their registration card and draw attention to this notice. Where necessary Police Officers or other Law Enforcement Agencies should be asked to contact the Farriers Registration Council.

▪️Equine owners and farriers are asked to note that this updated advice is interim and may need to be adjusted in future in light of events relating to the Coronavirus pandemic. Please regularly check back to the FRC website and the Covid-19 page on gov.uk at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Find information on coronavirus, including guidance, support, announcements and statistics.

05/04/2020

* Update for Clients *

I have taken the decision to stop working for the foreseeable future due to the restrictions from the Covid-19 pandemic. The logistics of having to move out of our family home in order to continue to provide services is a step too far for me with a young vulnerable family.

I apologise for the uncertain update & hope normality can be resumed before too long.

16/03/2020

*Notice to Clients* 🐴

I am continuing to work as normally as possible during this uncertain time, however please respect that I am socially distancing myself to protect vulnerable family members.

• If you have any symptoms please contact me to rearrange your appointment to a future date. 🤒
• Please do not put me at risk if you know you should be in isolation. 😷
• I would like to keep 3m distance between myself & anyone else. 🤚🏼
• Never thought I would say this but ‘no thanks’ to any coffee! ☕️

06/10/2019

Behind the scenes at WG Farrier Services. 🔨

03/08/2019

Very proud sponsor watching Tom Rowland Eventing riding Naomi & Renee Watkins’ of Tumpy Green Equestrian & Competition Centre VERY GOOD TEMPO rock into 3rd place in the Smith & Williamson Intermediate Championship at the Magic Millions Festival of British Eventing 2019! 🐴🌟

Photo Credit to Lucy Hall of Lucy Hall - Photography. 📷

06/07/2019

An awesome 2nd place for Super Squeak & Hayley Watson-Greaves - WG Dressage tonight in the Grand Prix Freestyle! 🥈👏🏼

Hayley Watson Greaves and Rubins Nite in the Superflex Grand Prix Freestyle at Hartpury Festival of Dressage CDI 3 Star in July 2019. With thanks to Hartpury...

05/07/2019

Fantastic to see Sponsored Rider Hayley Watson-Greaves - WG Dressage finish 5th today with her top horse SuperSqueak! 🦄

Hayley Watson-Greaves and Rubins Nite in the Hazlewoods Grand Prix at Hartpury Festival of Dressage CDI 3 Star in July 2019. With thanks to Hartpury Festival...

22/06/2019

A successful day for Sponsored Rider Tom Rowland Eventing! 👏🏼

16/06/2019

10 Great Facts

Ten facts about the hoof of the horse. Please feel free to share.

05/05/2019

Thrilled to see Tom Rowland Eventing complete his first Badminton! An annoying 2 poles very early on in the SJ were followed by a smart round just picking up a time fault. 🌟

04/05/2019

Very proud of Tom Rowland Eventing for piloting Possible Mission around Badminton CLEAR with just time faults to add to their dressage mark. 🌟

03/05/2019

A very respectable score of 33.9 in the Dressage for sponsored rider Tom Rowland Eventing on his Badminton debut! 🌟

30/04/2019

Let’s hope Robbie’s hand made designer shoes are lucky for sponsored rider Tom Rowland Eventing at Badminton Horse Trials this week riding Possible Mission. #93

Possible Mission has his lucky shoes on ready 🍀
Thanks to sponsor WG Farrier Services for Hunter's unique designed shoes 'PM' 'TR' '93' and '🍀' 🤞they are lucky for him 🙏

Thank you to everyone for all their support....

All my owners,

My super sponsors....

Lucy Hall - Photography Bed-Down Horse Bedding Turner and Hares Dodson & Horrell The Mark Todd Collection Gatehouse Hats EquiClass KBIS British Equestrian Insurance Kay Houghton Devoucoux Tech Clothing

The team at home and the team at Badminton Horse Trials without all their continued support none of it would be possible.

15/04/2019

Tom Rowland Eventing - Number 93! 😁

19/03/2019

We are thrilled for Sponsored Rider Tom Rowland Eventing for making the accepted entries list at this years Badminton Horse Trials with Possible Mission. 🐴🍀
Let’s hope a big local support base will get behind Tom who is Gloucestershire born & bred. 🎉

02/03/2019

Great video from Sponsored Rider Tom Rowland Eventing giving a glimpse of his fantastic facilities near Cirencester.

08/02/2019

🤧🤧 ATTENTION TO ALL CLIENTS 🤧🤧

With the current equine flu crisis, please be honest with me if you suspect any of your horses or other horses on the yard are showing signs off illness.

I’m happy to postpone appointments on this basis & will prioritise fitting you in once you have the all clear.

Honesty is the best policy - thank you.

01/02/2019

Important business to attend to today! ☃️❄️🐶

02/09/2018

Not only has Tom Rowland just completed his first BURGHLEY CCI4* in style, he’s also finished no worse than 27th which in itself is amazing but this result also qualifies them for BADMINTON CCI4* in the Spring! 🐴😁

Tom Rowland - Remember his name, there’s even bigger things to come! 🏆

01/09/2018

Tom Rowland Eventing CLEAR around BURGHLEY the BIGGEST CCI4* in the World! 💪🏼

This is the moment Tom realised he could SMILE! 😁

30/08/2018

Fantastic test for Tom Rowland - score has been updated now to 32.8 & into 9th position. 🐴

Some brilliant commentary saying how Tom wasn’t playing it safe & was riding a brave, bold test for every mark. 👏🏼

The WG logo can be seen in the medium trot photo, the saddlecloth also has Lucy Hall - Photography logo on the other side. 😁

29/08/2018

Very excited to see our Sponsored Rider Tom Rowland trotting up Possible Mission at Burghley CCI4* who is wearing shoes hand made by Robbie. 🐴

We wish Tom Rowland Eventing the best of luck for the week ahead. 🍀

13/07/2018

Wow - Check out the size of this shoe! 🐘