Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School

Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School.
A purpose built professional facility that demonstrates our commitment to professional farrier training.

Founded and run by Bob Smith in 1991, professional farrier since 1974.

Awards Presented to PCHS and Owner/Instructor Bob Smith:

Inducted into Members Of The International Horseshoeing
Hall Of Fame in 2010.

Bob is one of the founders and Vice President / Spokesperson for the American Farrier's Education Council (AFEC).

Competing with over 3,200 licensed schools, Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School, LLC was recognized as one of the top twelve vocational schools in California for 1998 by the California State Department of Consumer Affairs, Bureau for Private Post Secondary and Vocational Education.

The American Farrier's Association's Outstanding Educator Award in 1997.

Honorary Lifetime Membership in the Nevada's Professional Farrier's Association for outstanding farrier education.

Recognized by the Farrier's Association of Washington State for outstanding farrier education.

Recognized by the Western States Farrier's Association for outstanding farrier education.

Bob was the recipient of the prestigious American Farrier's Association's Journalism Award for 1999.

Bob is chairman of the American Farrier's Association's Education Committee.

How to Choose a Horseshoeing School:

School Location: Don't pick a school based on location, pick a school based upon curriculum. You wouldn’t marry someone just because they lived next door, close and convenient. Why use that criteria to pick a school?

Instructors: Our instructors are or have been full time professional farriers. They have years of experience running a business and supporting their families by shoeing horses. They will teach you more than just nailing steel on the bottom of horse’s feet.
Availability to practice: If you are going to be away from home to learn the art of horseshoeing you need the opportunity to practice after school and on weekends. The best way to get good is to practice and you have to be provided with the opportunity. At PCHS the forge area is open from 7am to 8pm, seven days a week. The classroom with video and book library is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Classes: Students start and graduate as a class. No "new guys" entering every week that would require us to stop teaching you to review old material for them. All lectures, demonstrations and shoeings are a smooth progression, one building upon the other, toward producing a professional farrier.

Horses: PCHS does not bring in rank, ill-mannered, dangerous horses for students to shoe. You can not learn how to balance a moving foot! Make sure the horses you work on at the school are going to be the same type of horses you plan on shoeing when you go home. Students need good quality horses that allow them to practice professional skills. The opportunity to shoe 10 horses per day means nothing if you can’t shoe any of them because they are dangerous.

Consumer protection: We are so confident of our teaching ability and our professional facility that we offer a 100% refund to any student who withdraws from the program, for any reason, on or before the end of the first week of training. Get that in writing from any other school!