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Reining Trainers
6M ago
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Reining Trainers
7M ago
Rollkur is alive and well in the training practices of Reining Horses in 2023 – while the rest of the equine world are working to have it banned.
These photos are from 2023 100xReining Classic ($3m of prize money) in Tulsa OK, and Run for the Million 2023 in Las Vegas 2023.
Referred to as horse abuse by scientific studies, its rampant in the education of reining horses.
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Reining Trainers
1y ago
No other western sport has rules of secrecy like the NRHA has in their medications and welfare policy to be implemented from 2023 and beyond.
The decision-makers reviewing violations of rules for medications and welfare:
AQHA – The Executive Committee – published members
American Quarter Horse Association
NRCHA – The Executive Committee – published members
National Reined Cow Horse Association
NCHA – The Medication Control Committee – published members
National Cutting Horse Association
NRHA – A secret group of people, and if a person becomes known to the membership as on the Co ..read more
Reining Trainers
1y ago
In a Formal Letter to the NRHA – The American Association of Equine Practitioners warns of the dangers of using Sedivet for horse and rider and its analgesic effect of the drug is performance enhancing. Read the full letter below.
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Reining Trainers
1y ago
With the announcement of the new NRHA drug rule revisions, we have been hard at work with people hitting the telephones to find out how board members voted in “SediGate”. The provision to inject horses with a sedative 30 minutes prior to an event during warm-up times.
In the open letter to all members, NRHA President Rick Clark, advised it required a supermajority of 67% vote to pass the new drug rules and penalties; therefore requiring 12 votes minimum. The president can only vote in a tie-breaker, so he is excluded. People can only vote once.
Clark goes on to write “Like the industry, the bo ..read more
Reining Trainers
1y ago
With the recent ruling allowing the use of an off-label sedative 30 minutes, prior to competition by the NRHA (National Reining Horse Association) members are calling into question the conduct of the Board of Directors.
For years, the NRHA has promoted and charged competitors for drug testing but there is little to no evidence of test results, fines or consistency of testing. Many members state they have been showing for years and have never been tested. Others state they have seen testers for a few hours on the first day of a 4-5 day show only. Typically testing horses in the lower ranked cla ..read more
Reining Trainers
1y ago
The equine world is in shock at the release of the new NRHA (National Reining Horse Association) drug rules published in their rule book in August 2022, allowing administrating of Sedivet 30 minutes prior to competition.
A time when horses in being ridden in what is referred to as the ‘warm-up’ pen. Warming up consists of continual loping, sliding, fencing (running horse at walls) spinning, backing and when the animal does not respond as desired by the rider, hauling on horses heads, spurring, sawing mouths and other ‘training’ techniques adopted by reining trainers and competitors.
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Reining Trainers
1y ago
A decade on and no real changes in drug regulation: the western industries are worse now.
Reprinted from Barrel Horse News in November, 2012.
Some horses are bred to run long distances fast; some bloodlines are famous for the inherent burst of quick speed they pass on. Some horses are bred for their ability to bury their haunches in the ground and turn. Some are bred for their fluid movements. In an industry that has grown more specialized than ever before, one thing remains true of all horses — performance horses included, and that is all members of the equine species are in some way shape or ..read more
Reining Trainers
1y ago
A well-known equine veterinarian has written to the NRHA for intervention authority where animal welfare concerns are seen in the show pen. In an openly published letter the vet wants rule changes for the requirement of veterinarians on site to conduct examinations where concerns are seen in relation to animal welfare such as reining horses shown drugged, and other welfare violations following the observation of the distressed horse competing recently at a major show. Scroll down to read the letter.
With prize pools in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, the questions need to be asked:
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Reining Trainers
2y ago
The horse walks into the show pen visibly distressed, and suffering and not a sole at this NRHA event did anything to help him, even though they spread marketing everywhere about Respect the Horse.
Expected to show as a top athlete in a physically demanding performance, his distress is obvious at the event and recorded on video.
Not the gate marshal, the show manager, the stewards, the judges, the scribes, the owner, the trainer/rider, other competitors, or a single person in the crowd. They just watched as he suffered and then screamed in elation at him, being made to spin fast whilst pissing ..read more