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Bookmark or Share- The Painful Truth of Horse Soring - HSVMASoring is the practice of deliberately inflicting pain to exaggerate the leg motion of gaited horses, called the “big lick,” to gain an unfair advantage in the show ring. The practice is commonly used on Tennessee Walking Horses, but other gaited horses may also suffer from this practice.
- Soring - WikipediaSoring is the use of chemicals, pressure or devices to cause pain to the front feet and legs of horses when they touch the ground. This results in the horses picking up their front feet higher and faster than they would do naturally.
- Horse Soring Fact Sheet – Fund for HorsesSORING, by definition from the Horse Protection Act (HPA), passed by Congress in 1970, is: “ (A) an irritating or blistering agent has been applied, internally or externally, by a person to any limb of a horse, “ (B) any burn, cut, or laceration has been inflicted by a person on any limb of a horse,
- Breaking: New regulations could finally protect horses from ...Protect horses from soring! The Horse Protection Act, originally passed in 1970, was intended to end soring. However, for decades, the USDA’s regulations have enabled the industry to train its own inspectors to examine horses for soring at shows and sales.
- Breaking: New regulations could finally protect horses from ...Thursday, August 17, 2023. By Sara Amundson and Kitty Block. There’s new hope for ending the painful practice of horse soring: a long-awaited new administrative rule from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one that’s badly needed and long overdue.
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