{"id":5607,"date":"2012-05-22T22:42:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2019-03-21T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:19:50","slug":"graphic-horse-soring-video-released-trainer-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/graphic-horse-soring-video-released-trainer-indicted\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic horse soring video released trainer indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large numbers of the famed Tennessee Walking Horses have been tortured and beaten in order to make them produce the high-stepping gait that wins championships, an ABC News investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent example, an undercover video made by an investigator for the Humane Society documents the cruelty of one of the sport&#8217;s leading trainers, Jackie McConnell of Collierville, Tennessee. <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/tennessee-walking-horses-abused\/story?id=16360835#.T7uzFRwrW4x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more plus watch video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All too often, you have to cheat to win in this sport,&#8221; said Keith Dane of the Humane Society of the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1098,1102,1100,1099,1101,1103,1076],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","tag-abc-news","tag-collierville","tag-humane-society","tag-humane-society-of-the-united-states","tag-jackie-mcconnell","tag-tennesse","tag-tennessee-walking-horse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}