Steve Samet began shoeing horses in the early 1970s in California. He moved to Nevada in late 1978 and soon developed a quality reputation for keeping performance horses sound; including reiners,hunter-jumpers, working Arabians and Quarter Horses. Steve has also trimmed many wild mustangs in Nevada for the Bureau of Land Management.

In 1984 Steve completed his farrier certification with the American Farrier Association. He then started a successful mentoring program, teaching new farriers the trade in one to three year programs via hands-on experience shoeing many different types of horses. Now his 12 apprentices are all full time farriers both in Nevada and California. The American Farriers Journal published a number of articles on Steve’s apprenticeship program.

In the 1980s, Steve traveled around the country for Mustad Inc. USA, demonstrating and conducting clinics on different applications with their Glu-Strider shoe. Steve also taught Farrier Science demonstrations for three years at the Pacific Coast Horse shoeing School in Sacramento, California.

In the mid 1990s, Steve became involved with HOOF-it® Technologies. Today he is Vice-President for Product Development and his responsibilities include testing and confirming products, product design and product improvement.

Steve has conducted HOOF-it® clinics in Germany, France, Italy, Mexico, Canada and all over the United States. He has worked on oxen in Nebraska, hunter-jumpers, reining horses in Germany and Italy, world class jumpers in Canada and roping horses in Mexico.