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“Greatest anti-soring advocate of all time” Clant Seay dies at 76

March 14, 2023 By Merritt Clifton 5 Comments

Walking horse defender BillyGoboy never slowed down in fight against the “Big Lickers”             OXFORD,  Mississippi––Citizens Committee Against Big Lick Animal Cruelty founder Clant Seay,  76,  remembered by fellow campaigner Marty Irby as “quite a character and in my opinion the greatest anti-soring advocate of all time,”  died on March 6,  2023 in Oxford,  Mississippi. […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Show, USA Tagged With: Gen's Ice Glimmer, James Meredith, Keith Dane, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Ole Miss, Roy Exum, Tawny Preisner

Court returns Horseracing Integrity & Safety Act to the starting gate

December 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Newly formed Horseracing Integrity & Safety Authority loses turf battle to state & industry agencies             NEW ORLEANS,  Louisiana­­––Horse advocates and the horse racing industry across the U.S. are somewhat belatedly beginning to realize that a November 18,  2022 unanimous decision by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has returned the Horseracing Integrity & […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Racing, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Clant Seay, Horse Protection Act of 1970, Horseracing Integrity & Safety Authority, Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020, Joseph Fawbush, Merritt Clifton

Anti-“Big Lick” soring PAST Act passes U.S. House; goes to Senate

November 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

And California voters dump horse racing bail-out measure WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. House of Representatives on November 14,  2022 for the second time passed the PAST Act,  short for Prevent All Soring Tactics,  and sent it to the U.S. Senate,  where for the second time it is likely to pull up lame. But maybe not.  Before […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, Show, Sports, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Clant Seay, Merritt Clifton, Priscilla Presley, Rep. Steve Cohen, Sherry DeBoer, Tom Vilsack

The “Big Lick,” Tunica, & the smell of horse manure in the morning

November 1, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Big Lick” industry hopes to raise a defense fund at show finale brunches in center ring TUNICA, Mississippi––Tennessee walking horse “Big Lick” fanciers either love the smell of horse manure in the morning,  or,  when converging for shows at the Paul Battle Arena,  miss the odor of Sugar Ditch Alley,  the open sewer for which […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Behavior, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Religion & philosophy, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Aaron Self, Clant Seay, Merritt Clifton, Paul Battle Arena, Tennessee Walking Horse, Tom Vilsack

Horse defenders ask, “Where are the Cheshire cats of equine advocacy?”

October 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Barn-sour big groups leave the hard work to Lone Rangers Fighting the horse’s rear ends promoting the horse racing industry,  rodeo,  and “Big Lick” horse exhibition,  Political Animals founder Sherry DeBoer,  Action for Animals founder Eric Mills,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi,  and Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty founder Clant […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Show, Spectacles, USA Tagged With: Action for Animals, Citizens Campaign Against “Big Lick” Animal Cruelty, Clant Seay, Eric Mills, Merritt Clifton, Political Animals, Sherry DeBoer, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, Steve Hindi

Exposed in California & Illinois: the most perverse events in rodeo

September 26, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Wild cow milking” goes down for the count in one of last major venues,  but fight to ban steer-tailing has barely begun OAKLAND,  California––A proposed ban on wild cow milking,  the only rodeo event known to have been invented by an alleged philandering pederast,  is only a second reading from final approval by the Alameda […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Hooved stock, Horse & livestock shows, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Rodeo, Spectacles, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Cherie Bartelt, Eric Mills, Merritt Clifton, Rowell Ranch, steer-tailing, Steve Hindi, wild cow milking

Walking horse industry waits for the other (weighted) shoe to drop

August 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“Big Lickers” hold out hope for a Congressional reprieve SHELBYVILLE,  Tennessee––A legal showdown may be coming soon over enforcement of a new USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service rule meant to protect show horses,  but not just yet. The mood midway through the 2022 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration,  supposed to climax on September […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Religion & philosophy, Show Tagged With: BillyGoBoy, Clant Seay, Keith Dane, Marsha Blackburn, Marty Irby, Mitch McConnell, Roy Exum

Did the Omak Suicide Race start with a horse massacre & the KKK?

August 13, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event             OMAK, Washington––The 88th edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak,  Washington,  is to conclude on August 14,  2022,  as the final event of the annual Omak Stampede Rodeo. Bizarre as is the race itself,  down an extremely steep […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Canada, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Native American beliefs, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sports, The Americas, USA, Welfare, Wild horses Tagged With: Alex Dick, Allison Williams, Claire Pentz, Karen West, Larry Lansburgh, Lillian A. Ackerman, Merritt Clifton, Nick Timiraos, Roger Harnack, Warren Cox, Will Anderson

“Outlaw” horse racing: drugs, murder, mayhem, & not just to the horses

August 8, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Horses shocked & likewise the public by exposés of “bush tracks”             MILNER, Georgia––Parallel investigations by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [PETA] and the Washington Post on August 5,  2022 brought the existence of “bush track” quarter horse racing to public awareness,  but the often violent and only sometimes illegal industry has openly […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, USA, Welfare Tagged With: American Quarter Horse Association, Angela Pelzel-McCluskey, Arthur "Brutz" English IV, Carril El Tarahumara, Gus Garcia-Roberts, Merritt Clifton, Rancho El Centenario, Renault Kay, Roman Chapa, Yesinia Garza

“Big Lick” horses win in court. Can they get a break from Congress?

August 1, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Trump killed rule meant to stop soring WASHINGTON D.C.––Former U.S. President Donald Trump in January 2017 improperly blocked a new USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service rule meant to protect show horses from taking effect,  ruled a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 22,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Behavior, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Clant Seay, Lamar Alexander, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, PAST Act, Sara Amundson, soring, Wayne Pacelle

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