{"id":7163,"date":"2016-08-12T13:46:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T19:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7163"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T19:02:16","slug":"usda-holds-hearings-on-proposed-walking-horse-training-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/usda-holds-hearings-on-proposed-walking-horse-training-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA holds hearings on proposed walking-horse training restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of speakers passionate about Tennessee walking horses spoke at a 2<span class=\"ng-command\" data-value=\"120\">\u00a0<\/span>1\/2-hour public hearing Wednesday in Lexington on proposed rules changes that would ban pads and chains and turn inspections over to federally licensed veterinarians.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing, the second of four, was held by the USDA, which proposed amendments to the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document?D=APHIS-2011-0009-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Horse Protection Act<\/a>\u00a0in July.<\/p>\n<div>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/news\/state\/article94835952.html#storylink=cpy\">click here\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new rules are designed to strengthen existing requirements to \u201cprotect horses from the unnecessary and cruel practice of soring and eliminate unfair competition,\u201d according to the USDA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,27,31,20],"tags":[564,567,563,568,566,565,162,569],"class_list":["post-7163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","category-government","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching","tag-american-horse-council","tag-american-veterinary-medical-association","tag-lexington","tag-soring","tag-the-american-association-of-equine-practitioners","tag-u-s-equestrian-federation","tag-usda","tag-walking-horse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163","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=7163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8163,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7163\/revisions\/8163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}