{"id":5642,"date":"2012-06-07T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5642"},"modified":"2019-03-21T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:04:50","slug":"usda-cracks-down-on-horse-soring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/usda-cracks-down-on-horse-soring\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA moving toward mandatory penalties for horse soring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of a televised Humane Society of the United States video showing abuse of Tennessee Walking Horses, the federal government is moving toward stiffer, mandatory penalties for horse soring and other related violations.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that the agency will implement a new rule on July 9 requiring organizations that inspect horses to assess minimum penalties to violators of the Horse Protection Act, including violations from soring Tennessee Walking Horses.<\/p>\n<p>Soring uses metal devices or chemicals that make the legs of Walking Horses extremely tender so they exaggerate their natural high-stepping gait. <a href=\"http:\/\/timesfreepress.com\/news\/2012\/jun\/05\/usda-moving-toward-mandatory-penalties-horse-sorin\/?breakingnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of a televised Humane Society of the United States video showing abuse of Tennessee Walking Horses, the federal government is moving toward stiffer, mandatory penalties for horse soring and other related violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,20],"tags":[1090,1077],"class_list":["post-5642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-watching","tag-tennessee-walking-horses","tag-u-s-department-of-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642","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=5642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8602,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5642\/revisions\/8602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}