Bruce Daniels Re-Publishes His "Sunday on the Farm" horseshoeing memoirs

This announcement will come as good news to many of you who have been haunting Ebay and calling me for years now, as you tried to hunt down a copy of Bruce Daniels' Sunday on the Farm.

The bestseller is back in print!

In Sunday on the Farm, America’s best-known farrier of the 20th Century remembers his years as an itinerant shoer at leading (and lesser) US harness tracks in the 1960s. You’ll enjoy equally his funny stories, bittersweet recollections, and philosophical insights into why farriers did--and do--develop characters that are every bit as strong as their backs.

Shoeing the lame ones and the champions, independent-minded horseshoers traveled “The Circuit”, lived in tents, never quite got rich, but could always get those coal fires lit. This is an important book, for beneath humorous tongue-in-cheek depictions of life on the backside, you will witness the roots of the 1970s and 1980s renaissance of farrier skills in America; nowhere was shoeing more important than at harness tracks, where swedging stock and making bar shoes were all in an hour’s work. 

Bruce Daniels says, "It's all true, you know. This stuff really happened."

Sunday on the Farm also includes stories from the Thoroughbred world, including the famous practical joke played on the horseshoer at Laurel Racecourse in Maryland. He truly believed that a Secret Service helicopter was coming to pick him up to take him to shoe Jackie Kennedy's horse. The poor guy stood out in the infield with his tool box, scanning the sky, until he realized he'd been the victim of an elaborate (but brilliant) hoax designed to cut him down to size.

Bruce and I have been busy preparing a launch for the first volume of memories to be available again. It is once again in hardcover, with photographs, and will be available in bulk and single-copy sales through Hoofcare Publishing.

The retail price on the new edition is the same as the old one: $30 plus $5 postage in the USA, $14 postage elsewhere. Wholesale orders are invited.

The easiest payment option is PayPal, which allows you to use your choice of credit or debit cards, direct bank withdrawal or other payment options.  Click on the "Buy Now" button and your payment will be processed to Hoofcare Publishing using PayPal's secure server. Click on the arrow in the drop-down menu to choose the postage amount for your country. For non-PayPal orders, follow the instructions below.

Book + Post Prices by Country

USA add $5 postage $35.00 Canada add $12 post $42.00 Elsewhere add $14 post $44.00

To order and pay by check or Visa/Mastercard, please call 978 281 3222, send your order via email to books@hoofcare.com, fax to 978 283 8775, Send checks in US dollars drawn on US banks to Hoofcare Books, 19 Harbor Loop, Gloucester MA 01930. Allow up to three weeks for US mail orders, although most will arrive much more quickly.

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