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Hilary R. Cloos ’96 trots along rural New York and Connecticut county roads, looking for her Cinderella. For the past 10 years, Cloos has spent her days trimming, fitting, and polishing??€”working hours on end to craft the perfect slipper. When she’s done, the armored hoof is ready for showtime.Cloos, a former Harvard physics concentrator and equestrian team captain, is known in eastern New York as a farrier. Laymen often call her a blacksmith, but while blacksmiths forge iron into many shapes and forms, farriers devote their lives to fitting shoes...

Author: By Daniela Nemerenco, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Horses’ ‘Fairy’ Godmother | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

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