Thread: Horse Soring

Soring is the abusive practice of inflicting injury to a horse so that it steps more highly during a show. Here's some info about it, and a number to call if you know of someone who's abusing the horses in this way...http://www.humanesociety.org/news/pr...ne_081712.html

Why? Why are people so cruel to animals, they didn't do anything to us. :'(

Originally Posted by LouLou

Why? Why are people so cruel to animals, they didn't do anything to us. :'(

I don't know, it makes me sick. A lot of times it's just for the people's benefit, mostly financial. I'm to the point where I will not attend a circus or visit a zoo...even rodeos, because I know about the hidden abuses behind the scene.

I honestly don't know how any person can be cruel to a horse, when we owned our horse there were people that weren't so nice to their horses that were ajisted at the same place as ours, slapping their horses across the head, and then they wondered why their horses were head shy, and not able to put their halters on them.Hubby used to have a go at them when he saw them doing things like that.Our horse was rescued from going to the knackery by a young woman, and then we bought him off her when he was thirteen years old, and he died from a snake bite when he was 27 .he was born to be a pacer/harness racing horse but because his legs kept breaking down, he was discarded, they race train them before their bones are properly formed. Here at the moment they are trying to get horse jump races banned,I wish they would ban all animal sports.Animal sports are all about money and cruelty.

Originally Posted by wombat

Here at the moment they are trying to get horse jump races banned,I wish they would ban all animal sports.Animal sports are all about money and cruelty.

...whether it's horse racing, greyhound racing, bull fighting, etc., they are all about the money and power, and definitely cruel to those poor creatures.

That really is terrible what they do to those horses. They are so beautiful I don't see how anyone could do anything to hurt them. It really is astonishing how cruel people can be to animals. I think you are right that most of it is because of greed. They are just uncaring souls.

More on horse soring...http://www.humanesociety.org/news/pr...eo_082812.html

I would like to do a bit of human soring,to the people that do it to horses, and see how they like it, cruel so and so's.

Originally Posted by wombat

I would like to do a bit of human soring,to the people that do it to horses, and see how they like it, cruel so and so's.

I completely agree wombat!

Kudos to the University of Tennessee for not using horses who have suffered from the practice of soring in their homecoming celebration, and caring about the health of the Tennessee Walking Horses...http://www.humanesociety.org/news/pr...ng_110212.html

My first horse had the scars & affects of soring. Its cruel what they do to get what they think is needed to win. Horses have such natural beauty in the way they are & move.
I agree... take these monsters out & do the soring to them.

That is so sad D: I'm seriously appalled by this sort of thing. Who, in their right mind, could ever inflict pain on an innocent animal who wants nothing more than to please them? The people who do this must have lost their humanity or something. Nobody with the heart and love of a normal human would be able to do this. It's one thing to eat animals for sustenance, but to torture them...that's horrible.

Originally Posted by amberra824

That is so sad D: I'm seriously appalled by this sort of thing. Who, in their right mind, could ever inflict pain on an innocent animal who wants nothing more than to please them? The people who do this must have lost their humanity or something. Nobody with the heart and love of a normal human would be able to do this. It's one thing to eat animals for sustenance, but to torture them...that's horrible.

How many times has anyone been to a youth activity (baseball, football, ect) seen a young chlld make a mistake, then get berated in front of the whole world about how dumb he/she is and "what is WRONNNGG with YOU!?" while bleachers full of people try to ignore what's going on.

These are the same people you see abusing horses and other animals purely for the win --- and the money in the case of the TWH National Celebration, let's not forget the money-----------------

These People are the one percenters of the Walking Horse industry but they generate 90% of the income. I do my shopping in the same Shelbyville that is mentioned in one of the above articles. I own three of "THOSE horses". Oftentimes I have to defend myself and my horses not only against non-horse owners who only know what they read from HSUS and other articles, about Walking Horses but also many horse folks outside the gaited horse world.

Somehow things have morphed into less-knowledgeable people thinking everyone that owns a Walking Horse abuses them and people automatically think all Walking Horses are nut cases, because all they read about are the abused horses that do turn into nut cases.

Believe this or not, there are also people (including some in the gaited horse world) who think the "show" blood lines should be done away with (huh?!?!? isn't that genocide and just how would they be disposed of?). Two of my three trail horses came from show blood lines; they didn't "make" as Performance Walkers when they were young. They are fantastic at their jobs of carrying me Over the River and Thru The Woods and saving Mr. TWHRider's hind end when he lied about tightening his saddle and slid down the side of one of them on 12" wide trail with a 40 foot drop-off. He owes that crazy "show blood line" horse his life and I never let him forget that.

As far as HSUS goes --- well, I happen to know when they first went public with the beating Jackie McConnel put on that horse - it was a few MONTHS AFTER the incident. They timed the release of the video with something (I can't remember now) that was key to their fund raising efforts. Seems to me if they truly cared about the fate of that horse and others like it, they would have released the video as soon as their legal department gave them the ok. Or mehbee it was the Legal Dept that timed it that way.

What never gets into print is that many of these "performance horse" trainers went to liteshod and took their dirty littly abuse practices with them. HSUS doesn't talk about that but they do like to post pictures that I know for fact are 30 years old. I'm sure they have some modern day pics just as disgusting so they should post those, instead of pics that have been floating around before some of these trainers were born.

As far as what Davis said in the August, 2012 HSUS article:

"The only way to win at the Celebration is to sore,"

That's about the size of things in certain classes. A large percentage of the soring issues could be made to go away simply by coming down on the judges who leave their truck window partly open on show night, so they can find an envelope full of cash on the seat after the show.

HSUS has been on my s*** list for a good many years and the fact they held that video back until it was convenient for them further adds to my annoyance. I give directly to the local animal shelters, so I know exactly what the money is being used for.

There's absolutely no excuse for these soring practices, there's no excuse for any form abuse regardless of whether it's "for the win" or anything else.

The majority of Tennessee Walkers are in very loving homes and get better care than some people's children, regardless of whether they are boarded out or on the Owner's personal property. Many of them go into the show ring on Friday night or Saturday, then go on all day trail rides on Sunday; point being they are flat shod or barefoot.

Stepping down off the Clarification Soapbox, even though no clarification was needed for many folks