Tennessee Walking Horses and Marsha Blackburn

INTRODUCTION For those of you who know little about the political history of horse soring, this is an excellent piece. For those of you who have good knowledge of it, this is still highly informative. Brilliantly written. What is horse soring? Soring is the intentional infliction of pain to a horse's legs or hooves in…

Whitfield, Cohen introduce bill to strengthen laws against horse soring

PAUL C. BARTON, writing for The Tennessean Washington Bureau reports: Two House members introduced legislation Thursday to strengthen laws against soring of Tennessee Walking Horses, but supporters warned that the bill would not be easy to pass. Whitfield and Cohen [U.S. Reps. Ed Whitfield, R-KY, and Steve Cohen, D-TN] announced the bill at a Capitol…