This years Royal Show started on Sunday 3rd July. All of the classes in the Farriery competitions were full. The Sunday saw the Apprentice gas shoemaking competitions and the Roadster shoeing competition. After a long day and lots of hard work from the stewards and judges the results were ready to be read out and the trophies presented to the winners.

Apprentice gas-forging years 1 and 2 Wayne Balfour
Apprentice gas-forging years 3 and 4 Nathan May
Apprentice therapeutic Matthew Rees
National champion Apprentice Nathan May
Roadster shoeing class David P Smith

The second day of the Royal Show got of to a smoother start. However the competitions still started early in the morning. There were two Farriery classes on the Monday, these were the first rounds of the Open Therapeutic and Hunter Shoeing. The Hunter shoeing class was won with a margin of only 0.2 points.

Hunter Shoeing Gary Darlow


On Tuesday the final rounds of the Open Therapeutic shoemaking class was held, the Shire Shoeing competition took place and the Royal Show Champion was announced. All classes were hotly contested with only a few decimal points deciding the winners.
            

Open Therapeutic Stephen Newman
Highest placed apprentice N/A
Shire Shoeing class D T Gardner
Royal Show Champion  Ian Allison


On the final day of the Royal Show twenty competitors attempted to win the title of National Champion. Each competitor was allowed 75 minutes to make, fit and nail on a fullered concave shoe, make one heavy horse hind shoe and one deep seated fullered bar shoe. A new trophy was also presented on Wednesday, this was the Jo Preston Memorial Trophy. The Joe Preston Memorial Trophy was presented to the competitor with the highest points scored over the four days for shoemaking.

Joe Preston Memorial Trophy Ian Allison
National Champion D T Gardner
 

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Sam Cook and DragonBlacksmithing competitions also took lace during the Royal Show. On the Sunday the static classes were judged. The winners of these classes did not receive their trophies until the last day of the show. From Monday to Wednesday the live Blacksmithing competitions took place as well as live demonstrations to entertain the public. In the Live blacksmithing competition the competitors are given 11/2 hours to make a piece of their choice while the novice blacksmiths are allowed one hour to make a piece of their choice.

 

 

Traditional blacksmithing and metalworking N Gaden
Contemporary blacksmithing and metalworking Malcolm White
Traditional architectural Iron work N/A
Contemporary architectural iron work N/A
Industrial forged Nigel Fennell
Artistic welded section Steven Marshall
Live Blacksmithing Andrew Hall
Live welding R C Jones
Novice live blacksmithing Steven Murphy
The Royal Show Blacksmithing Champion N Gaden


The Association wishes to thank all the people that made this years Royal Show such a great success.

A more detailed list of results will be published in the Forge magazine.

 

 

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