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Trump signs anti-race horse doping bill & $60 million gift to horse industry

December 28, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Tax break for Paycheck Protection Program loan/grant recipients appears to have been the dangling carrot that brought horse racing industry support for omnibus funding bill             WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. President Donald Trump on December 27,  2020 “signed H.R. 133,  an Act making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021,  providing coronavirus emergency response […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal racing, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Racing, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Bill Shanklin, Clant Seay, Joseph D. Tydings, Keith Dane, Lamar Alexander, Merritt Clifton, Wayne Pacelle

Will anti-show horse soring bill pull up lame through last-hurdle compromise?

December 8, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

What would Marty Irby,  Wayne Pacelle & Lamar Alexander think if weighted shoes were on their feet? UPDATE received on December 18,  2020,  from Bernard Unti,  senior policy advisor,  Humane Society of the U.S.:   “I’m pleased to share the news that the reckless attempt by an embittered faction within animal protection to swap in a […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: Billy Goboy, Clant Seay, Joseph Tydings, Keith Dane, Lamar Alexander, Marty Irby, Merritt Clifton, Roy Exum, Wayne Pacelle

Why did chuckwagon racer Devin Matsuing dare a grizzly bear to fight?

September 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

The grizzly bear had better sense             BANFF, Alberta––Convicted on September 13,  2019 of disturbing a grizzly bear more than four years earlier,  professional chuckwagon racing driver Devin Mitsuing,  35,  was on September 13,  2019 fined $4,000 by Canmore Provincial Court Judge George Gaschler. Mitsuing was given until October 16,  2019 to pay the fine […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, The Americas Tagged With: Devin Mitsuing, George Gaschler, Jenna Dulewich, Marritt Clifton, Ray Mitsuing, Thomas Murray O'Neill

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

August 7, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Uncovering the nasty origins of an ugly event             OMAK, Washington––The 86th annual edition of the bizarre and often deadly “World Famous Suicide Race” held annually in Omak,  Washington,  is to be held nightly,  August 8-11,  2019. Bizarre as the race itself is,  even more bizarre––and perplexing––is that the 12 Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation […]

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

Three more chuckwagon horses killed as Calgary Stampede 2019 ends

July 15, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Six horses killed in 10 days; most since 1986              CALGARY,  Alberta––The 2019 Calgary Stampede ended on the night of July 14,  2019 with reportedly the second-highest attendance in the history of the event,  and three more horses killed in the climactic last heat of the Rangeland Derby,  the chuckwagon races that for almost a […]

Filed Under: Animal racing, Canada, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horse racing, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Racing, Rodeo, Spectacles, The Americas Tagged With: Bill McEwen, Chad Harden, Danny Ringuette, Emma McIntosh, Eugene Jackson, Evan Salmond, Guy Weadick, Lew Wallace, Merritt Clifton, Troy Dorchester

E. coli kills yet another child who visited a petting zoo

July 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Third known petting zoo fatality since 2011 SAN DIEGO, California––Jedidiah King Cabezuela,  age 2,  on June 24,  2019 died from hemolytic uremic syndrome,  an apparent complication of exposure to shiga toxin-producing e. coli bacteria two weeks earlier at the San Diego County Fair. “The County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency said the […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Disease, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horse & livestock shows, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Meat issues, Pollution, Sheep & goats, Zoos Tagged With: Aedin Grey, Colton Guay, Gage Lefevers, Jedidiah King Cabezuela, Merritt Clifton, Myles Herschaft, Scott Weese, Tim Fennell

Driving at demonstrators costs “Big Lick” champ’s insurers $50,000

May 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Billygoboy wins again             TUNICA,  Mississippi––Having organized boycotts that have shut down “Big Lick” walking horse shows in at least 13 southern cities,  semi-retired attorney Clant Seay,  71,  better known as Billygoboy,  is now celebrating a victory of a different sort. This time Seay has collected $50,000 on behalf of four clients, plus himself,  in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Show, USA Tagged With: Caitlin Glidden, Cathy Bickerstaff, Clant Seay, Frederick K. Campbell, Mario Chiozza, Merritt Clifton, Richard Mitch, Robert M. Boyd, Robert Olsen, Sandra Culbertson, Steve Hindi

Big win over the “big lick” walking horse industry in 2018 federal budget

March 30, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

“Big lickers” kicked,  but Congress kicked back             WASHINGTON D.C.––Winning increasingly often against initially steep odds,  BillyGoBoy and friends opposed to soring horses to make them step higher appear likely to enjoy the last horse laugh over the walking horse show industry. Walking horse shows have been infamously dominated for decades by trainers who––defying the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Show, USA, Welfare Tagged With: BillyGoBoy, Clant Seay, Donald Trump, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton

Could soring horses leave top Republicans limping in red-state Tennessee?

November 10, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Political columnist & senior attorney both think so CHATTANOOGA,  Tennessee––Could being associated with soring horses to induce the “Big Lick” goose step favored at walking horse shows cost the Republican candidates the 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections? Roy Exum thinks it could.  And attorney Clant Seay,  a 72-year-old walking horse show breeder turned […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Behavior, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Show, Sports, USA Tagged With: Bill Callaway, Clant Seay, Diane Black, Jackie McConnell, Lamar Alexander, Malinda Larkin, Marsha Blackburn, Merritt Clifton, Mitch McConnell, Monte Irby, Roy Exum

USDA-APHIS reposts less than 1% of deleted law enforcement info

February 20, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

More activists & animal charities sue          WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service on February 17,  2017 reposted some of the inspection reports on animal research facilities that it deleted from the USDA-APHIS web site two weeks earlier,  on February 3,  2014,  but not enough to quell protest or […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Cruelty & neglect, Culture & Animals, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Horse & livestock shows, Horses, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Regulation, Research & testing, Science, Show, USA, Welfare, Zoos Tagged With: David Klepper, Delcianna Winders, Melissa Chan, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Russ Kick, Wayne Pacelle

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