News and Blog

Dec
01

Jo joins the Keratex Team

Categories: Team Keratex

Keratex the hoofcare experts are delighted to announce the appointment of Wiltshire-based equestrian business consultant Jo Buckle BSc (Hons) to its team. Jo brings to Keratex a wealth of knowledge in her field of expertise and will be advising the company on a range of issues in the hoof care sector....

Oct
18

Keratex Kinks - On the road to recovery

Categories: Team Keratex

We are pleased to report that the lovely Kinks is nicely settled in and getting more and more into her stride as time goes on. Due to her age the weight is beginning to be distributed differently from her youth. So we are happy that she...

Sep
06

Back to Suffolk and preps for the two Bs - Sharon Hunt Diary

Categories: Team Keratex

It’s been as always a crazy month for me with competing training and moving back to Suffolk.  Before I give you an update about all the horses progress this month I just want to make sure you all now know I have left Bedgebury Park in Kent and have moved...

Sep
05

Meet Keratex Kinks, the newest member of the Keratex team!

Categories: Team Keratex

Keratex Kinks is a 15.1hh chestnut mare aged about 17. She was just four hours from being put down when Keratex heard about her. She was due to be put to sleep due to laminitis, slight lameness, a leg injury from field bullies and a behavioural problem (she is bit...

Jul
26

Keratex answer questions in Horse and Rider

Categories: Team Keratex

Check out the latest issue of Horse and Rider magazine (August '11), as Keratex's own Marketing Director Rosie Fell, has become one of Horse and Riders Expert columnists! Rosie answers a complex question about hoofcare, and she gives advice on protecting hooves from summer related issues and the best way to...

Jul
25

A mid-July update from Sharon Hunt!

Categories: Team Keratex

With the season well under way, it feels like we spend more time traveling in the lorry than we do at home, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. We have had a very busy month and have had lots of encouraging results to report, we took 4 of the...

Jul
01

Ian Hughes - July 2011 Farrier column

Categories: Team Keratex

Over the years of working at the University of Liverpool, I’ve been very fortunate to work with, learn from and hopefully influence some of the many Veterinary Surgeons working in the Equine industry to date. It is a constant ever changing situation where not only the students but Clinical staff, having...

May
16

Ian Hughes Interview for HCTV

Categories: Team Keratex

Ian has been featured by Horse and Country TV in their Ten Minutes In The Tackroom series. Ian answered a variety of questions, discussed his life as a farrier and recommended Keratex! For information on Ian Hughes and for equine information and interviews, you can visit www.horseandcountry.tv

Apr
10

A Farriers Diary April 2011 - OUT NOW

Categories: Team Keratex

Read Ian Hughes' latest 'Farrier Diary' in the April/May 2011 edition of Forge magazine, which is out now. Ian discusses this years laminitis cases and his meeting with HRH The Dutchess of Cornwall! Read the diary in the Bi-Monthly magazine or on their website - www.forgemagazine.co.uk   Please tell us what you think of...

Feb
20

A Farriers Diary - Ian Hughes Feb 2011

Categories: Team Keratex

I am pleased to have been asked to write a short column for Forge magazine in conjunction with my preferred hoofcare range, Keratex for the next few issues on the day-to-day running of my farriery practice and I hope you all fi nd them of interest. A little about myself fi...

Feb
16

Ian Hughes Diary in The Forge Magazine

Categories: Team Keratex

Ian Hughes has a new diary column in every issue of this year's The Forge Magazine. Ian is a key member of Team Keratex and he recommends Keratex to all of his clients and colleages. We are delighted to support Ian's contributions to Forge magazine and the first one is out...