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could you tell if any of theother horses looked sored in that video?[/QUOTE]
There are horses in that video who look strained to me- not striding deep behind, campier, maybe just weaker. Some do look more LQR than others.
Connecting the dots has turned into one huge solid dot.
yes all the dots
Green dots and blk ones
Dr.Mullins, Dr.Meadows and David Howard are so deep in the alphabet and Dot soup,they very well may drowned, taking with them the BIG LICK.
Shelbyville will not want to be known as the city who hide the Abuse of the TWH.
how many trainers left the celebration without going thru the inspection process,the public will never know.
until all the reasons to sore are removed from the Show Ring,the temptation to abuse the gaited horse will be there.
so reasons must be removed,stacks and packages as stated by the AVMA AAEP
Amazing, how can anyone think it’s okay to put all that on a horse’s feet? And weird hoof angles? And it needs a band to keep it all on?
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I was looking for video on the CH class last night and came upon this. Now I’ve watched farriers shoe pads and wedges in the ASB game and this looks like a very simple procedure. Nothing “bad” going on.
However take a look at the foot. It’s dished, the coronet plus growth rings are all over the place. I’d be screaming bloody murder if my horses hooves looked like that on a regular basis. I sure as hell wouldn’t expect a lot of ‘performance’ from the horse. I would expect to get the hoof straightened out before putting that block of crap on them. <<oxymoron I know.
has anyone heard that there is a new name for the Big Lick,is being said they may start calling it the Shelbyville Style Walking Horse. now is this crazy or what,
maybe cause the words Big LICK make people think sored. who knows?
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has anyone heard that there is a new name for the Big Lick,is being said they may start calling it the Shelbyville Style Walking Horse. now is this crazy or what,
maybe cause the words Big LICK make people think sored. who knows?[/QUOTE]
If it wouldn’t confuse people it would be laughable.
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has anyone heard that there is a new name for the Big Lick,is being said they may start calling it the Shelbyville Style Walking Horse. now is this crazy or what,
maybe cause the words Big LICK make people think sored. who knows?[/QUOTE]
Oy Vey…
http://chattanoogan.com/2012/9/3/233475/Roy-Exum-My-Horse-Whisperers-Speak.aspx
Roy Exum: My Horse Whisperers Speak
Monday, September 03, 2012 - by Roy Exum
On Friday morning, which must have been around 10 o’clock Central Time, one of my “horse whisperers” informed me – quite anonymously – that an entry named Walk Time Charlie would win the 74th Annual National Walking Horse Celebration’s top prize, that another horse owned by Chattanooga’s Mike Walden would be the runner-up, and that a third, highly-regarded Honors, wouldn’t step through the gate on Saturday night for the World Grand Championship.
Initially I chalked the rumor up to the fact there was a full moon over Shelbyville that particular evening. What do you mean Honors won’t dance after going through the preliminary rounds? No one could know such a thing beforehand but, then again, during August there were actually two full moons that floated above the middle Tennessee night sky, both of which seemed to bode especially ominous for a “Big Lick” crowd that is today in a state of chaos.
I had publicly begged Walden not to take his horse to Shelbyville, warning that all the “Big Lickers” wanted was his money, but Mike sallied forth, doing all the right things like buying high-priced ads and billboards, hobnobbing with the now-suspect “country club” set, and embracing his genuine love for horses that was so elegantly portrayed in a front-page story in the Chattanooga Times Free Press on the day of the grand finale.
Late Saturday night the horse whisperer’s swarthy prediction proved exactly true and capped a disturbing pall on what I believe has to be the most bizarre and trying Celebration in its 74-year existence. For instance, one whisperer confirmed Saturday’s crowd – take away the freebie seats, the cash giveaway and the grossly-inflated press releases – was the lowest since the big oval was built in 1948.
Worse, it is also whispered that there were only about 1,500 entries in 171 classes over the 11-day show, which equated to 8.8 riders in each classes that always historically reward the top 10 finishers. “Compare that to 6,000-plus entries in 2006,” said the quiet voice. “Have you ever heard of a horse show anywhere that 40 percent of the paid entries didn’t step into the ring?”
Of course, 2006 was the year of the Celebration’s greatest train wreck, where virtually all of the grand national “Big Lickers” were found to be sored and Mike Walden was suspended for his involvement in the mess for two years. That aside, I was still pulling for Mike on Saturday night and now I hope, as do many who view the current hierarchy as questionable, that Walden will come to his senses.
Monday’s whisperers said that Walden had indeed done the right thing on Saturday and in the right way. The winner, Walk Time Charlie, was trained and ridden by Chad Baucom out of Monroe, N.C., and the whisperers reminded that Baucom trained and rode an imperiled horse called Moody Star to a Reserve title in 2010. “You’ll remember Moody Star, today called Star, was the unfortunate ‘co-star’ in the Jackie McConnell video,” said the voice.
Somebody in the Saturday crowd, yet another whisperer revealed, said that Walk Time Charlie didn’t canter nearly as well as I’m Copperfield and that the eventual winner was a quiet entry, with not much fuss or many full-page ads. The judging was unanimous, much to the crowd’s chagrin. Walk Time Charlie’s owners are known to have healthy real-estate ties with some Shelbyville insiders, the whisperer said, “But, face it, you never know.”
This whisperer also said that in the fifth round of swabbing, Hall of Fame trainer Brad Davis was caught and had his ribbon and prize money removed. What is so ironic is that the “hot” horse he was riding last week belonged to Wilsene Moody Kwok, whose husband is the keeper of the Ohio Baptist Convention.
Far better, the same Mrs. Kwok was the unflinching and repentless owner of Moody Star when Jackie McConnell brutally and sadistically beat that very animal in the famed ABC News Nightline tape in a way that has now left millions gasping the world over. “Wilsene and Jack have been big-money patrons at The Celebration this year,” said the voice, “and you’ll remember that Brad Davis married Jackie McConnell’s daughter.”
From the very get-go, this year’s Celebration has been a doomed disaster ever since the McConnell video aired in May. A big sponsor, Pepsi, bolted immediately and an independent Cola-Cola bottler out of Tullahoma is still taking criticism from “Big Coke” for later getting involved in an event called “the cruelest horse show on earth.” This was amplified when, by anyone’s count, over half the seats in the 30,000-capacity arena were glaringly empty most nights last week.
With public disdain never as high and the “Big Lick” now being viewed the world over as a blatant form of animal cruelty and torture, the nation’s top veterinarian and animal-protection groups are now railing for the pads, chains, and sordid trainers to be outlawed. “You have never, ever, seen a horse in a field do what is called the ‘Big Lick,’” whispered one veteran trainer, “because it is not just highly unnatural, it acutely hurts the horse’s legs.”
Three current Hall of Fame trainers were found to be among dozens who violated federal Horse Protection Act statutes during The Celebration but – with horse abuse now a felony in Tennessee – Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce and his deputies curiously did nothing with the ample evidence that had to have been easily obtained.
Take Hall of Fame trainer Chad Way, for example. After Celebration officials banned him for two years last week when he brought a horse an “independent veterinarian” deemed was close to being actually disabled, why didn’t anyone call law-enforcement authorities? “It’s a felony!” cried the whisperer. “What’s the difference between Charlie and Jackie? Or, to be honest, between Charlie and Brad Davis, who was only handed a friendly two-week suspension?”
While the Celebration has ended, the heat on the “Big Lick” will surely intensify in the coming months. The 11-day media brawl between the Shelbyville crowd versus the Humane Society and USDA will surely wage on unabated – especially with the lawsuit against the USDA hanging low – and an ignited public is now more involved than ever in begging state and federal lawmakers for strict action.
The Shelbyville crowd is balking hard. They gave a fundraiser for blustery Scott DesJarlais (R-Jasper) during the Celebration and are now trying to pull Chuck Fleischmann (R-Chattanooga) into the fray. Fleischmann, who did not win the recent Third District primary by a majority, has to realize such a slippery slope could result in political suicide and, further, to align himself with such misfits has hardly ever been his style.
Frank Eichler, the chairman of one Shelbyville group who should learn to keep his pen in his pocket, wrote a ridiculous Op-ed in the Nashville Tennessean on Saturday under the headline, “Humane Society in business for itself, not horses.” Now there has mysteriously appeared a set of confidential emails that were also purportedly written by the Shelbyville lawyer. “He’s the one who’ll need a lawyer if they (the emails) can be verified,” said another whisperer.
My goodness, there is a bigger mess today that there was 12 days ago when the Celebration opened. Jackie McConnell’s much-anticipated sentencing in a Chattanooga Federal Court has been pushed back to Sept. 18 but there may be more in the wind; the whisperers say McConnell may instead rescind his guilty plea in order to become a federal witness “and there is no telling what he might say,” said the voice.
Oh, the horse whisperers talk. At the 2012 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration, it was announced there were 2,660 horses that had been entered with entry fees of about $125 per horse. At the close of Saturday night’s competition, only 1,500 horses actually competed. “What happened to 1,160 horses last week? Were they disqualified, scared to show, what? Find out about the 1,160 horses that disappeared,” said the whisperer.
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Thank you Roy - and thank you all who whisper to him.
The story needs to be told and heard.
Listen. Pay attention. Open your eyes. Pull back the curtains. Stop looking the other way.
I hope they prosecute chad Way and the owners of Ironwork’s Tin Man in every possible way they can. But where is Tin Man today? No one will answer that question. This is supposed to be about the horse. The welfare of the horse.
Exactly. Where is he ? And why wasnt he given a thorough examination including removing his shoes ? Im sure Chad isnt stupid enough to have presented a horse with chemicaled-up legs so why could this horse not even walk? This is not rocket science. Why did that horse not undergo an exam to reveal the source of his pain ?
again Roy has shed light on the Shelbyville Slime.thank you.
i don’t believe anyone will hear much about Ironworks Tin Man,if they did not take that horse to a safe place when it was found sored so badly at the Celebration,i fear its gone really gone.
its time to make calls,ask questions of the DA,why wasn’t Chad WAY arrested and charges filed. this needs human out cry.
I wish we could clone Roy.
I get the feeling something is brewing in KY and it won’t include just TWH’s.
Important article in The Tennessean.
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Important article in The Tennessean.
Shed no light on the issue other than the usual HSUS propaganda. The writing about HS pet associations versus the HSUS National non affiliated charity had absolutely NOTHING to do with the soring issue.
Nothing new was presented…Articles like this give credibility to those who are trying to protect BL.
Your opinion Fairfax. I think the article in a Tennessee newspaper said a lot. Thank you to the Tennesseans who are standing up and being counted !
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I wish we could clone Roy.
I get the feeling something is brewing in KY and it won’t include just TWH’s.[/QUOTE]
As I have horses in Kentucky…;what might that be?
Roys article was to the point about Celebration and the ongoing issue.
The other was one half defending HSUS
Here is the exerpt:
[I]letters, opinion columns and interviews by leaders in the Tennessee Walking Horse industry, the points are the same: The Humane Society is the villain.
The duplicity is stunning. According to these industry mouthpieces, the society made the video of the horse abuse and then kept it secret for months. Why? To drag out the event for maximum publicity and fundraising for the society. The Humane Society is thus as sadistic as the abusive trainers.
This is a hatchet job, meant to divert unwanted attention from the industry itself. The reason the investigation takes time is clear: If undercover volunteers shouted at the first sign of abuse, it would botch the investigation and make it impossible for authorities to make a case that would hold up in court.
Added to this fiction, horse industry figures ask disingenuously why the Humane Society devotes less than 1 percent of funds raised to animal shelters. This is misleading and irrelevant. The Humane Society is a foundation that has no authority over the more than 20,000 animal shelters in the United States, half of them government-run. The society’s funding goes to operations such as the soring investigation; working with Congress and state legislatures to improve animal-protection laws; and training for many of the aforementioned shelters on health and humane standards.[/I]
They know the video was shopped for over 10 months until the wife of Wayne (who operates the Los Angeles movie star branch) was able to make contact with Diane Sawyer. It was ALL ABOUT MONEY
This issue is VERY VERY VALID…I am glad it was exposed…but stay on point…
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Nothing new was presented…Articles like this give credibility to those who are trying to protect BL.[/QUOTE]
Kinda like you and your blah blah blah vendetta against HSUS. Quit nitpicking. It is growing tiresome.
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I wish we could clone Roy.
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I agree totally. As the TN article said “The duplicity is stunning.” Glad Tennessee is waking up and owning up to its TWH problem.
