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• Animal rights advocate sues show exhibitor
• USDA continues near-total eclipse of puppy mill and horse soring reports
• A Q&A with Southeast Pet's CEO Greg Judge
• Illegal horse soring operators get shut down with their attacks on animal groups in the courts
• Trump administration needs to uphold ban on horse soring
• Letters: Feb 16, 2017
• Wipeout: How the battle over the Big Lick Walking horses changed access to information on the welfare of all animals
• USDA scrubbing of animal records may have been sparked by horse lawsuit
• USDA removed animal welfare reports from its site. A showhorse lawsuit may be why.
• Anti-Soring Rule Suspended in Trump Administration Freeze
• Priscilla Presley Begs Trump to Help End 'Torture' Horse Training That Still Happens in the South
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• President Trump Just Froze a Proposed Ban on Painful Horse Soring
• Rule amending the Horse Protection Act (HPA) overseeing the Tennessee Walking Horse industry withdrawn
• SDA's new Horse Protection Act rules withdrawn from federal enactment.
• Horse soring restrictions on hold amid freeze on new rules
• Trump stops rule to save Tennessee walking horses from soring
• Trump administration places horse 'soring' ban on hold
• Agriculture Department saddles up new show horse protections
• N.B. this editorial was written in response to pro- USDA proposed rule editorials  submitted by both Priscilla Presley and Keith Dane  to  The Tennessean. The three points of view ran in Sunday's Opinion section. Horse Protection Act will destroy 'performance horse'
• Roy Exum: Sored Horses Bow Out?
• Roy Exum: Transparency & The ‘Lick’
• Priscilla Presley lobbies Congress to pass law to end soring of Tennessee Walking Horses
• Letter: Soring must come to an end
• Priscilla Presley Comes to Sacramento to Speak Out Against Horse ‘Soring’
• Support reforms that end cruel horse soring
• Rule would put halt to soring of horses
• Proposed regulation could end practice of soring
• Swimming With The Lickers
• Lobby to stop abuse of Tennessee walking horses
• Presley lobbies Congress for end to soring
• Roy Exum: Big Lick = Red Neck
• Priscilla Presley campaigns against 'soring'
• Provisions of Yoho Bill Adopted by the USDA
• Letters to the Editor: Soring still a problem in horse shows
• Groups look to Obama to end 'soring' for Tennessee Walking Horses
• Authorities Crack Down On Illegal Soring
• USDA Plans Its Own Big Step — To Strengthen Horse Protection Act and Crack Down on Soring
• http://newsofthehorse.com/2016/year-old-horse-sored-and-ridden/
• Citizens voice concerns about charity horse show
• TDC to Hear from Horse Show Critics
• Activists Protest Soring At TN State Fair
• 10News Investigates: Tennessee Walking Horses
• Right, Tradition or Obstinacy: A Look at ‘Big Lick’ By a Tennessean
• http://www.thedailytimes.com/news/judge-to-allow-further-questioning-regarding-search-warrant-s-validity/article_c0d9c5f8-376a-58e9-a816-bb17bd59334e.html
• http://www.alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=b25fc824-5026-4ea2-a023-a0bc8e18526d
• http://www.thedailytimes.com/news/defense-attorney-in-horse-soring-case-seeks-to-discredit-search/article_8759da29-1330-57a8-bb3c-15d92e70456d.html
• http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/local-news/no-horsing-around-tennessee-walking-horse-industry-cannot-afford-any-more-cheating
• http://augustafreepress.com/ayotte-warner-reintroduce-legislation-in-senate-to-prevent-horse-soring/
• http://www.thehorse.com/articles/35717/federal-legislators-reintroduce-past-act
• http://www.richmond.com/opinion/our-opinion/article_c664e6a5-4e94-559d-8191-59d04e1fca4c.html
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/4/28/299159/Roy-Exum-Who-Is-This-Barbarian
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/4/26/299050/Roy-Exum-FBI-To-Study-Lickers.aspx
• http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/local-news/no-horsing-around-tennessee-walking-horse-industry-cannot-afford-any-more-cheating
• http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/04/23/letters-editor-economy-walking-horses-incarceration/26255161
• http://whnt.com/2015/04/01/priceville-horse-show-to-attract-hundreds-of-horses-trying-to-get-over-pain-of-the-past/
• http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2015/03/27/big-lick-demonstrates-abuse-horses/70556748/
• http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_27881428/custody-over-abused-horses-heats-up-court-decision
• http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/times/story/2015/mar/21/bring-circus-protest-help-tennessee-walkers/294478/
• http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/times/story/2015/apr/12/reform-walking-horse-industry-must-include-ow/297840/
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/4/15/298203/Roy-Exum-Public-Joins-Big-Lick-Fight.aspx
• http://equestrianquarterly.com/priscilla-presley/
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/5/7/299888/Roy-Exum-Lamar-Is-Embarrassing.aspx
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/5/18/300594/Roy-Exum-Our-Sored-Walkers-Weep.aspx
• http://www.thehorse.com/articles/35817/judge-tosses-evidence-in-wheelon-soring-case
• http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/commentary/1064028-474/scandal-in-a-horse-industry.html
• http://www.horsechannel.com/horse-news/2015/05/now-thats-a-tennessee-walking-horse.aspx
• http://www.truckcampermagazine.com/camper-lifestyle/rig-retire-and-ride
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/6/3/301608/Roy-Exum-Is-Somebody-Evil-Coming.aspx
• http://www.knoxnews.com/news/watchful-eye/soring-charges-dismissed-against-blount-county-trainer-associates_23496801
• http://www.thedailytimes.com/opinion/your_voice/horse-soring-trial-was-sad-fiasco/article_b979a77e-3d6c-5fcf-ab1e-dc0775dad26e.html
• http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/local-news/grand-jury-decide-charges-walking-horse-protest-incident#comment-2093275100
• http://avmacan.avma.org/avma/issues/alert/?alertid=65515631&utm_source=avma-at-work&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gen
• http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2015/07/18/walking-horse-group-successful-flat-shod-rules/30357289/?fb_action_ids=884219321639707&fb_action_types=og.comments
• http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/local-news/grand-jury-indicts-alabama-walking-horse-trainer
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/veterinarians-in-congress-introduce-bill-to-end-horse-abuse_55b93edbe4b095423d0db9e8?caqbyb9
• http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/08/18/letters-editor-aug-19-advocacy/31899161/
• http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Billboards-raise-awareness-about-illegal-horse-6452411.php
• http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2015/08/28/s-walking-horse-celebration-vs-humane-society-again/32433811/
• http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2015/08/hsus-horse-soring-investigation-thorsport.html
• http://www.examiner.com/article/colic-kills-two-walking-horses-within-two-months-at-thorsport-farms
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2015/11/25/313247/Roy-Exum-Vote-DesJarlais-Out.aspx
• http://www.t-g.com/story/2255815.html
• http://horsetalk.co.nz/2015/12/06/hsus-boss-slams-alternative-walking-horse-bill/#axzz3tZa3ZNmW
• http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/265459-stop-torturing-horses-now#.VpUdelS-Chp.facebook
• http://animalsnorthwest.com/2016/01/06/see-my-magic-from-a-life-in-high-heels-to-a-life-behind-bars/
• http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/letters/2016/01/23/end-illegal-soring-practice-walking-horses/79222964/
• http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/local-news/jury-finds-walking-horse-horse-trainer-guilty-assault
• http://blog.humanesociety.org/wayne/2016/02/usda-lab-results-walking-horse-celebration.html?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=humanenation
• http://www.kentucky.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article57798368.html
• http://www.horsenation.com/2016/02/03/saving-theo-the-journey-of-a-tennessee-walking-horse/
• http://www.ratemyhorsepro.com/news/missouri-walking-horse-stable-owner-charged-with-child-sex-abuse.aspx The article also notes his recent HPA violations: According to a Horse Protection Act (HPA) report, he has been cited 5 times for HPA violations as recently as 2013.
• http://www.newsherald.com/news/20160214/horse-show-to-go-on-despite-objections/?Start=2#loadComment
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3469131/Pictured-Shocking-images-horse-not-let-stall-years-owner-suffers-stroke.html
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/6/6/325527/Roy-Exum-Obama-Hear-Our-Plea.aspx
• http://www.knoxnews.com/news/politics/cohen-urges-federal-crackdown-on-horse-soring-3461859d-11d7-520d-e053-0100007f938e-381842351.html
• http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202759525459/Horse-Whose-Owners-Sued-USDA-Wins-Championship
• http://www.commercialappeal.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/Letter-States-disgrace-383066031.html
• http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/07/04/practice-soring-holds-back-walking-horse-industry/86614224/
• ** http://www.animals24-7.org/2016/07/16/fighting-the-walking-horse-industry-wins-congressman-a-reprimand/ ** This is a great explanation of exactly why it is so hard to get anything accomplished with legislation to end soring
• http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article91798077.html
• http://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/7/27/328691/Roy-Exum-Our-Horses-Vs.-DesJarlais.aspx
• http://www.horsenation.com/2016/08/04/updates-on-usda-twh-anti-soring-legislation/
• http://www.parispi.net/opinion/columns/article_53d76f58-688a-11e6-85e1-cbb43fe7664f.html
• http://www.kyforward.com/commentary-nation-stands-strong-against-soring-tennessee-walking-horse-industry-should-too/
• http://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article96774877.html
• http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/mailbag/government-should-move-quickly-to-ban-horse-soring/article_577d0d62-ec31-527b-afec-95da88fa97fd.html
• http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/times/story/2016/aug/13/sohn-lobstop-abuse-tennessee-walking-horses/380970/
• https://awionline.org/action-ealerts/support-usdas-effort-put-hurt-horse-soring
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cathy-kangas/horse-soring-reflects-bad_b_11697162.html
• http://newsofthehorse.com/2016/chains-and-padded-shoes-at-the-2016-celebration/  Photos included courtesy News of the Horse
• https://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/sep/14/stronger-laws-are-needed-to-prevent-cruel-horse-so/
• http://thetimes-tribune.com/opinion/end-blue-ribbon-cruelty-1.2103235#.V_-YJoHhbnM.facebook
• http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/readers/2016/10/24/letters-editor-oct-25/92653604/
• http://www.postbulletin.com/opinion/letters/letter-tim-walz-has-helped-prevent-animal-cruelty-and-abuse/article_c5e44c08-fc08-5072-9614-7e8009d174bb.html
• http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2016/10/20/threats-intimidation-plague-walking-horse-industry/91877214/
• http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2016/10/20/horse-soring-culprits-hard-track/89937038/