Claude Lortie has been a farrier for over thirty-eight years, and he’s just now started a brand new project—passing on the knowledge he’s accumulated from his thirty-eight years to a new generation of farriers, educating them in the craft of the farrier the same way he learned—by apprenticing! In the early 1980’s Claude apprenticed for five years under two different farriers, competed as part of the Canadian Farrier Team in the early 1990’s and followed that by traveling in E