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Reining Trainer Sued for Horse Abuse
There were full-thickness skin wounds from spurs, they still hadn’t completely healed two-and-a-half months later,” says Amy Rucker, DVM, a podiatry-focused veterinarian at MidWest Equine, in Columbia, Missouri. The article cites a Reining Horse Tonge Split in Half Good Warning: Reprint from TheHorse.Com Traumatic Horse Training: Can You Spot Abuse?
NRHA Members Call Out Professionals Code of Ethics
NRHA Members Call Out Professionals Code of Ethics as a load of rubbish. They do not adhere to it and nor is it enforced Further down in this article you will read the actual comments made by NRHA members and enthusiasts regarding the Professionals Code of Conduct in 2020. You may have seen the NRHA […]
Report Horse Abuse and Your Attacked
NRHA Members and Reining Enthusiasts write they are abused if they Report Horse Abuse In an enlightened world of what is and is not acceptable in horse training methods, the Reining Horse World comes under the spotlight equally to that of the Tennessee Walking Horse – Big Lick for many people. The fear in members […]
The Reining Tail Obsession
The 2020 NRHA Derby did not disappoint with horses showing the quiet reining tail look; achieved through equine suffering. The quiet reining tail look is a signature of the reining horse, and despite the suffering to the horse, it continues. Judges reward quiet tails; even when it is clear to the public, they have been […]
NRHA Rule Proposal to Stop Horse Tail Alteration Vanishes
A rule proposal was written addressing the vile cruelty and treatment of horse tail alteration of reining horses, but it fails to make the rule book. It is reported that this proposed rule change was filed timely for a 2020 rule book inclusion, but it has not been included in the 2020 rule book. Following […]
Preparing to earn a million dollars in The Last Cowboy
A quick video looking at how reining horses are trained by one of the million-dollar cowboy featuring in the film ”The Last Cowboy” and “Run for a Million” competition. This is the event that is being promoted as the greatest exposure of reining in its history by program writer and NRHA Hall of Fame Inductee, […]
Outlaw Tail Blocking – Its Pervasive in Reining – its Cheating, Unethical and the Horses Suffer
Tail blocking is pervasive in reining events and members believe it is a necessity to win prize money. There seems to be a “cheat to win” mentality that has become pervasive in the show horse industry1. Tail blocking is unethical for veterinarians and shows the decay in training programs when it becomes a necessity to […]
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