Royal Wedding horse shoes set to be auctioned for charity

Making a designer shoe for the equestrian world, Household Calvary farrier, Major Wayne Freeman and team spent hours crafting new sets of shoes for 186 horses on parade at the Royal Wedding.  So when eyes weren’t set on the royal couple and the horse’s gleaming horse tack and riders, think about all the preparation that went into the horse shoes for the big day at the forges base in Hyde Park.

The horses are based next to the most expensive block of flats in Europe, living in Hyde Park barracks. The stables have full shaving beds everyday, daily rides into Hyde Park and 24hr veterinary assistance and holidays in the country. 
                                                                                                                                                    
The lucky wedding charm of the horse shoe is a well known tradition which comes from the ancient belief that metal keeps away evil. The charms will be auctioned off with proceedings going too the Household Calvary Central Charitable fund. The fund is vital for injured men in need of support, as the men parading at the wedding are in regular danger all over the world; some just returning from Afghanistan who were on the parade on the big day itself.

Farrier Major Freeman laughed: “My mother keeps asking me for a wedding shoe, but I’ve had to tell her that even I can’t have one.”

Requests for the mementos are being made all over the world with Major Freeman and the team of farrier’s working hard to get together each special horse shoe ready for sale. The shoe itself will be lacquered and will come with a photograph of its horse and rider, a certificate of authenticity and in a sealed box.