Talmadge green biography sampler
Farrier Talmadge Green talks about his strategy for shoeing a new barrel racer..
The Equine Report
Written by Barbara Newtown
Original Publish Date June 2013
I interviewed Talmadge Green while he was on the road between his ranch in Sandy Hook, in south Mississippi, and a big futurity in Fort Smith, AR.
He said he doesn’t mind a long drive: “Prize money makes for easy driving. On the way up, you’re thinking about winning, and on the way back you hope you have won a lot!” His trailer was full of four-year-old horses going to a barrel-racing futurity.
He explained the difference between futurities, derbies, and open competitions: A futurity is for 4-yr-olds, a derby is for 5 and 6-yr-olds, and open is for any age horse.
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He assured me that there is no problem putting a four-year-old into a barrel competition; their legs can take it. Most Quarter Horse knees are strong enough for hard work by age 3. Green flat-races Quarter Horses as young as two, but he X-rays their legs to make sure their knee joints have closed.
Green also protects his young barrel horses’ l