The largest Tennessee Walking Horse group is pressing ahead with plans for a major show in November, with plans to name a grand champion. The move follows the turmoil which surrounded a recent US national show.
The show was surrounded in controversy after only three of only nine horses in line for the World Grand Championship passed federal inspections, amid allegations of an illegal practice known as soring, in which the horse's foreleg and hoof is deliberately irritated to encourage a higher gait.
The association, which is also the breed's registry body, still wants to name a grand champion to continue the long tradition. It also wants to minimise the bad publicity arising from the failure to name a grand champion at the recent show.
The upcoming show will include the federal inspections and competitors will be competing in 50 different classes with the grand champion taking a prize of US$15,000. The total prize money available in the show, in late November, is US$150,000.
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