Apparently large numbers of Tennessee Walking Horses are tortured and beaten in order to make them produce the high-stepping gait that wins championships.
The unnatural movements required from this type of show horse is not about horses at all, of course, but about about human affectation and ribbon-chasing.
Misery for the animals is simply "collateral damage" on the way to winning a rosette, same as it is for so many breeds in the world of show dogs.
Of course we are told it's only the "unscrupulous" who do these kinds of things.
And who tells us this? The people who go to horse and dog shows themselves, and who stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the abusers, and who have spent years, if not decades in silence.
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