Gaited Horse Soring Video

Nikki S · Advanced

Gaited Horse Soring Video

beargirl123sarah · Yearling

furious You would think the Nikki, but I guess their a bunch of heartless ba----ds, I mean thats what we have to assume. I don't believe that caring horse owners like ourselves would ever purposely enflict pain on our beloved horses. These people are in it for the money PERIOD and the prestege, if their main goal was the betterment of the breed this s--t wouldn't go on. But as you see on the news, from dressage trainers to quarter horse breeders, cheating is the way to prosper. They will sore and ginger and deaden tails just to earn an extra point and become a big shot. Until animals are given a voice and a right (like peoples) to proper treatment it will continue and those that do it will always get ahead, and they'll always have an excuse. Pretty sad isn't it. I personally try and be a bright light in a very dim and grim industry. Thanks for caring and sharing. See you on the trail.

Sarah

Jackie Cochran · Advanced

Lets see, when I started investigating horse breeds almost 50 years ago, the first two I decided not to get into were the ASBs and TWH, just because of what was done to these horses in the shows, and I did not know about soring back then, but I hated the set tails, and their long, weighted hooves. Too bad, both breeds have marvelous horses.

I ended up picking the Arabs as my favorite breed, many reasons, but BACK THEN the halter Arabs were not stretched out and they were allowed to stand like horses. Women and children could show stallions, and I figured a breed like that HAD to be good (back them most breeds women were not allowed to show stallions, and children never were.) Little did I know the absolutely horrible things that would make their way into the Arab show ring.

I went into hunt seat riding because (back in the days of the Forward Seat) because it looked less abusive to the horse. Little did I know how much bad (note I said bad) dressage would change the hunter classes.

We must face the fact that a lot (not all) of the abuse horses suffer happen in training so that the horses have a chance to win at shows or other competitions. Without shows horses would still be abused, but maybe fewer horses would be tortured.
If I could jump and had the energy, the only current classes I would compete in would be show jumping. Yes, there are a lot of abusive practices in show jumping but you are not all but required to torture your horse to have a chance of winning. Yes, a lot of torturing of horses occur for show jumping, but the point is that I would not HAVE to torture my horse to have a chance of winning. I would just have to be a good rider and trainer, and have a good eye for a horse.

I live in the South, gaited horse territory. Not all winning TWH trainers torture their horses so badly though they all sore the horses, they want to win. These gaited horse show people think that people who object to their abusive practices are tree-hugging wimps. They will NEVER listen to us about this. The US government is the ONLY thing in the world that may be powerful to stop this, they have been trying for 40 years, before then no one was effective in changing the practice. MUCH MORE funding is needed to pay for inspectors. In today's budget climate I am not holding my breath.