Michael Saunders

Michael is passionate about his job as a farrier, the farrier industry and training apprentice farriers.

Michael relocated from Tasmania to Victoria to pursue his farrier training at the Melbourne Institute of TAFE and completed a Certificate III in Farriery. After finishing his apprenticeship in Australia, Michael continued his training and earned a diploma of the Worshipful Company of Farriers (DipWCF) in the United Kingdom.

Michael continues to travel the world competing successfully at farrier competitions and attending farrier related clinics.

Michael now runs a successful farrier practice in Western Australia, servicing a wide range of equestrian disciplines, and operates an impressive workshop where he carries on the tradition of the farrier profession by making his own horseshoes and forging his own tools.