HORSE SORING — Calling all advocates against horse soring. Please help sored horses by joining a protest, signing a Petition against it and contacting federal legislators to endorse the PAST (Prevent All Soring Tactics) Act which will close the loopholes in the current law exploited by “Big Lickers”.
What is Horse Soring?
Horse soring is a painful practice used to accentuate a horse’s gait in competitions for big prizes. This is accomplished by irritating the feet and forelegs through mechanical irritants or the injection or application of chemicals.
• Chemical Soring
Chemical soring involves using agents such as mustard oil, diesel fuel, kerosene, salicylic acid, crotonal or croton oil, collodion, and others, on the pasterns, bulbs of heel, or coronary band of the horses.
The resultant burning or blistering causes the horse to snatch up his front legs, accentuating his gait.
These chemicals are harmful, toxic and sometimes carcinogenic. Trainers must use a brush and wear gloves when applying them. The area may then be wrapped in plastic while the chemicals are absorbed.
• Mechanical Soring
Mechanical soring can be just as painful chemical soring. Stacks up to 5″ high and filled with a variety of substances for added weight, are attached to the front hooves, causing the horse to stand perpetually in an elevated, unnatural position. This type of shoeing causes chronic, constant pain.
Known as “action devices,” chains worn around the pasterns can range from the mildly annoying to the extremely painful. Alone, the six-ounce chains accepted in the show ring may not harm the horse, but horses sored with heavy chains or chemicals prior to the show date can suffer intense pain in the ring as the lighter chains repeatedly bang against the sore area.
New Methods
The above are the most common examples. However, over the years more types of soring designed to be harder to detect have been invented. So the treachery and cruelty surrounding these beautiful and gentle animals continues and all to win big prizes in brutal and ugly competitions.
Horse Soring in Action
Protest
If you are willing to protest horse soring at an upcoming event, please text Clant Seay at 662-380-3367 for further information such as locations and meet up times. Contact him right away. There may be one near you soon. Bring your friends. T-shirts for everyone!
Petition and Support the PAST Act
• Go here to sign the Petition »
• Go here to learn how you can support the PAST Act, H.R. 1847 »
FEATURED IMAGE
The Big Lick performed at the 75th Walking Horse Celebration in Shelbyville, Tennessee on August 29, 2013. HSUS image.
Tuesday's Horse 
This is disgusting. Those people are a sadistic psychopath. They are taking pleasure in the infliction of pain, and torture of innocent beings. Apparently, they are good church-going people, God-fearing people. Well, be afraid because there is nothing good about you. You are evil and you will burn in hell for this. Ask yourself as you torturing those poor horses. What would Jesus do?
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Thank you for expressing your compassion for these horses Sugar. It is unconscionable.
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Are we talking about civilization here? How callous can you be while calling yourself a horse lover? It‘s beyond my imagination to inflict pain on anyone to produce an unimportant result. They have lost rhyme and reason, There is no necessity for this other than pride and vanity! How low cane you get….
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It blows my mind when these animal abusers can look at what they are doing & claim its “necessary” ! The supposed “gait” that they are creating causes so much pain & only serves to make these horses into something they are NOT. Anyone who has ever ridden a TWH knows what a lovely easy way of going they have. Monsters? yes!
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So much cruelty. 😂.. Man lost it’s humanity. Painful. Vicki grimard
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My stomach turns every time anything comes up about this vile ‘activity’.
These people who inflict this abhorrent cruelty upon these long suffering horses are nothing more than
sadists. They’re MONSTERS!
This horrific animal cruelty upon these noble horses must be OUTLAWED.
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