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MONTH: November 2006

Horse show abuse updates

 

The Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders & Exhibitors Association on October 16, 2006 cancelled the alternate "grand champion" competition it had announced on September 21.

To have been held in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the alternate competition was to have replaced the final judging at the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celeb-ration in Shelbyville on August 21, which never took place. Of the 10 horses selected for the final judging, seven were disqualified after USDA inspectors detected scarring that may have shown the horses' hooves were sored to train them to use the high-stepping walking horse gait.

"The decision [to cancel the alternate competition] came after weeks of criticism by horse trainers, many of whom threatened to boycott the show," reported Nashville Tenn-essean staff writer Brad Schrade.

British Show Jumping Association chair Penny Crutwell confirmed on September 27 that blood tests had confirmed that four ponies ridden by contenders at the association's junior championships in Jersey on September 9 were covertly sedated.

"Police were called to investigate an allegation that Kim Baudains, 36, fed a sedative to ponies in an attempt to help her 12-year-old son Josh win the under-16 Young Show Jumper of the Year final," summarized Richard Savill of the Daily Telegraph.

"A tablet of ACP (acetylpromazine), a veterinary sedative, was allegedly found on the ground," Savill continued. "Police later called off their investigation, and said no one would be charged because no Jersey laws had been broken."