Farriery exam preparation course Sweden

Description

A course designed to walk you through 10 modules that will give you the skills and knowledge required to take the EPO (Dip WCF) and Associate of the Worshipful Company of Farriers (AWCF) exam at a fantastic facility in Uppsala.

Each day will consist of small digestible sessions.

• Questions on the subjects covered
• Practical tasks
• Research on future subjects 

Henrik Jannson FWCF

• Grown up with draft horses (Ardenner) trimming own horses since age of 16.
• Farrier school 2003-04
• Gesällbrev 2006 (effa certification)
• Fortbildnings exam 2007
• Start to consult for the SLU University 2007
• Teacher for the continued education 2008
• Full time and head farrier for the SLU University 2009
• Board member of Swedish Farrier Association 2009-2013
• Master Farrier 2013
• AWCF 2022 (Passing with an A in the theory)
• FWCF 2023 (First ever farrier in Sweden to pass this exam)

Rickard Svard AWCF

• Started farriery in Sweden 2002 as a passing the Certified Journey Man (CJ)
• Passed the higher exam in anatomy 2007 from the Swedish farrier association in collaboration with Uppsala University. 
• 2010-2019 a member of the Swedish farrier team competing at the International at Stoneleigh.
• During that time I shod several top end horses in different disciplines. 
• 2013 passed the Swedish Master Farrier exam. 
• Judged several farrier competitions; Finnish championship, Norwegian team trials, Swedish championship, and local farrier competitions etc.
• 2023 passed the Associate exam from the Worshipful Company of Farriers
• 2023/24 I was the farrier in Sweden for Global Champions Tour GCT in Stockholm and The Gothenburg Horseshow World Cup 
• Currently the resident chief farrier at Strömsholm large animal hospital in Sweden since 2017 were I cover everything from correcting angular limb deformities on foals to top end horses with various defects like navicular syndrome, also working closely with the surgeons on any surgery within the hoof ( i.e. keratoma removal, DP fractures, large abscesses, osteitis etc.)

Jay Tovey FWCF

• Qualified Dip WCF 1996
• Represented England as an apprentice and qualified
• Successfully competed nationally and internationally
• Wcf judge 2008
• Olympics 2012
• Awcf 2013
• Fwcf 2017
• Wcf examiner 2018
• EEG 2020
• Spoken, demonstrated all over the world