The Tennessee Walking Horse is a famous American breed of gaited horse. This horse glides smoothly across the ground when it performs its distinctive “running walk” and other gaits. These motions make ...

The marvelous Tennessee Walking Horse breed is being held hostage by a small group of wealthy, politically connected individuals who are using undue influence to maintain the "Big Lick" animal cruelty ...

Undercover video footage released in 2012 documented cruel treatment of horses in the Tennessee walking horse industry. It showed the use of painful chemicals on horses’ front legs to force them to ...

Monty Roberts is a world-renowned horse trainer and bestselling author of "The Man Who Listens to Horses," and Marty Irby is the executive director of Animal Wellness Action in Washington, D.C., and a ...

Last month the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration crowned its World Grand Champion is Shelbyville. The show is unusual because it has inspectors from the U.S. Department of Agriculture – a ...

Benjamin Tydings Smith is the grandson of the late U.S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings, father of the Horse Protection Act. In 1970, U.S. Sen. Howard Baker, Jr., R-Tenn., joined with my grandfather, Sen.

The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration (TWHNC), sometimes known as the Celebration, is the largest horse show for the Tennessee Walking Horse breed, and has been held annually in or near ...

Marty Irby is the Executive Director at Animal Wellness Action in Washington, D.C., and a Past President of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ & Exhibitors’ Association in Lewisburg. When U.S. Sens ...

There is a new effort underway to save Tennessee walking horses from soring - and to save the Tennessee Walking Horse and its industry. The effort is new compromise legislation that seeks to protect ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - It’s all in the way they walk that will bring World Champion, and a Longview man and his nine-year-old son, have ridden their way to those awards. The Tennessee Walking Horse ...

This story is about Rock-a-Bye Lady, a Tennessee Walking Horse I’ve known about for years, but never saw perform. A half-century after her untimely death, this magnificent creature has been inducted ...