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Trainers' Show makes move (12/22/11)
The first big Tennessee Walking Horse show of 2012 won't be held in Shelbyville as in years past. A conference call was held earlier this week by the board of directors of the Walking Horse Trainers' Association (WHTA) to prepare for the upcoming 2012 National Trainers' Show in White Pine, in Jefferson County, which is in east Tennessee...

TWH groups form unity committee (12/15/11)
Four groups representing the Tennessee Walking Horse Industry have selected members of a new "unity committee" that is to focus on the future of the business. Two weeks ago, the boards of directors of four industry groups -- the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association (TWHBEA), Walking Horse Owners' Association (WHOA), Walking Horse Trainers' Association (WHTA) and The Celebration -- met and agreed to form the committee to discuss issues related to the future of the breed in the show ring, as well as unification within the performance horse division.. ...

TWH groups team up to fight change (12/01/11)
A "Unity Committee" will be formed to discuss issues related to the future of the Tennessee Walking Horse in the show ring and also to discuss unification within the performance horse division. However, the group objected to any reduction of pads and action devices for walking horses, also opposing proposed mandatory penalties by the Department of Agriculture (USDA)...

Horse groups close ranks (11/29/11)
The Tennessee Walking Horse industry will meet Wednesday to appoint a committee to look at "the welfare and future" of animals in the show ring. A recently passed appropriations bill includes a large increase in federal funding for enforcement of the Horse Protection Act, used to combat the practice of soring...

Trainers Show finalists repeat Celebration spots (03/22/11)
It was almost like the last class of the 2010 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration revisited. When Star, a crowd favorite whose registered name is actually Moody Star, was called as the stakes winner of the 43rd annual National Trainers Show Saturday night, the crowd went wild...

Fun for funds (03/17/11)
By the time this weekend is over, some walking horse trainers will have a rainbow of ribbons on their stall doors. Some trainers will have trophies, or new horses or new clients. But by the time Wednesday night was over -- some of them had pie on their faces...

WHTA suspends Peebles' license (01/07/11)
The Walking Horse Trainers' Association has suspended the license of a trainer who has been accused of sex crimes against three minors. The WHTA announced Thursday the action against Dick Peebles, who was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of sexual battery, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor by electronic means and solicitation of a minor...

Meadows likes opening night turnout at Trainers Show (03/18/10)
Only a few classes into the 42nd annual Walking Horse Trainers' Association show, there were already several hundred spectators. "I'm very pleased with the turnout," said Dr. Doyle Meadows, CEO of the Celebration as well as the head of SHOW, the horse industry organization that sanctions the Trainers' Show...

Season's local kickoff begins Wednesday (03/16/10)
It's traditionally the first big show of the horse show season -- the first chance fans get to see if their favorites are coming back this year and what the new crop of colts and fillies look like. Last year, however, the Walking Horse Trainers Association's annual show wasn't the kickoff for the season...

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