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Calendar No. 606
91ST CONGRESS SENATE REPORT
1st Session I No. 91-609
THE HORSE PROTECTION ACT OF 1969
DECEMBER 15, 1969.-Ordered to be printed
M[r. MAGNUSON, from the Committee on Commerce,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2543]
The Committee on Commerce, to which was referred the bill (S.
2543) to protect interstate and foreign commerce by prohibiting the
movement in such commerce of horses which are sored, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
with amendments and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 2543, the Horse Protection Act of 1969, is designed to end the
inhumane practice of deliberately making sore the feet of Tennessee
walking horses in order to alter their natural gait. It would do so by
prohibiting the shipment of any horse in commerce, for showing or
exhibition, which a person has reason to believe is sored; by making
unlawful the exhibiting of a sored horse in any horse show or ex-
hibition in which that horse or any other horse was moved in com-
merce; and by prohibiting the holding of any horse show in which a
sored horse is exhibited if any of the horses in that show w ere moved
in commerce.
NEED
The Tennessee w'ilking horse is a magnificent animal, distinguished
by its proud, high skipping gait or walk. As a class Tennessee
walkers have become exceedingly popular and now number approxi-
mately 25,000.
The horse's distinctive walk may be achieved through patient,
careful training and is the result of both the trainers' skill and the
horse's natural breeding. Unfortunately, however, it was discovered
about 20 years ago that the walk could also be created artifically.
If the front feet of the horse were deliberately made sore, the intense
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