Pat Reilly, Chief of Farrier Services at New Bolton Center, gave this presentation to personnel from the Penn Library in July 2012. In his presentation, Pat discusses the University of Pennsylvania Podological Museum’s collection of horseshoes and a brief history of horseshoeing in the U.S. from a societal point of view. In this video, you can find out how machine-made horseshoes gave the North an advantage over the South in the U.S. Civil War.

A video introduction to University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine's New Bolton Center. This was made in 2002 to mark New Bolton Center's 50th anniversary.