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Article: Walking horse trainers, owners receive warning.
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- Chattanooga Times/Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2006
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Byline: Pam Sohn
Sep. 12--Chester Gipson, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's deputy administrator for animal care in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, told a group of trainers and owners Monday that they need to police their industry or the department will.
"If we find someone pressureshoeing horses, I will do all I can to get them (owners and trainers) banned for life" from the industry shows, Dr. Gipson said.
Pressure shoeing is the practice of clipping a horse's hooves to the quick and inappropriately using horseshoes and pads to force the animal's stride to be balanced on the tip of its front hoof. It is a form of soring, or ...