Mark is a former member of the England’s Farrier Team, a former head lecturer at the Myerscough school of Farrier science and was responsible for the development of the BSc (Hons) program.

He is a former WCF judge and examiner and was inducted into the International Horseshoeing Hall of Fame in 2015. He is a Fellow of the Worshipful Company of Farriers and recently completed a PhD study in hoof morphology as a predictive indicator of pathology at the University of Liverpool Veterinary School.

He has lectured and demonstrated advanced farriery techniques around the globe including Europe, The USA, South America (the highlight being several trips to Brazil where the standards of practical skills displayed were excellent and the thirst for knowledge exhausting), Scandinavia, India, the Middle East and Australia as well as Japan and South Korea. Mark is an ATF and has trained numerous apprentices.