Columbia Spring Jubilee adds class-We have Class Sheet!
Columbia Spring Jubilee adds class
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
The Columbia Spring Jubilee, scheduled for May 30–June 1, has added a class to their original schedule. Class 8A will be Weanlings.
2024 FUN SHOW CLASS SCHEDULE
TWH Family mourns Gene Jordan
Gene D. Jordan, age 91 of Murfreesboro, Tennessee passed away peacefully, May 11, 2024 at the farm he was born and raised on. Gene graduated from Walter Hill High School and then farmed with his Father and later worked as a Master Farrier for thirty-eight years in the Tennessee Walking Horse Industry.
He was a member of the Jerusalem Cumberland Presbyterian Church and led the singing there and at Powells Chapel Baptist for fifty years. His infectious smile and sense of humor brought joy and laughter to everyone he encountered.
Gene is survived by his High School sweetheart, Lailia Nell Jones Jordan to whom he was married for 72 years; son Belvie Gene (Tamberlyn) Jordan; daughter Sheryl Lee (Dean) Pittard; sister Lanna Jordan Barrett; grandchildren Elizabeth (Josiah) Shoemaker; Ellie Jordan; and great grandson, Emerson James Shoemaker and Lionel Gene, due to be born November, 2024. He was preceded in death by his parents, John Short Jordan and Alberta McKee Jordan; brother, Roger Belvie Jordan; and granddaughter, Emilee Genell Jordan.
Visitation will be on Tuesday, May 14, from 4-7 PM and Wednesday May 15, 10-11 AM. Chapel Services will be Wednesday, May 15 at 11 AM with Brent Wills officiating at Jennings and Ayers Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery with family serving as pallbearers.
The family would like to recognize and thank Amedisys Hospice for their excellent and loving care of Gene during the last thirteen months. Along with caregivers, Carrie Grantwhite and Fred Wilder who played a vital role in enhancing Gene’s quality of life and unwavering support to family members.
Please leave online condolences for the family at www.jenningsandayers.com Jennings and Ayer Funeral Home, 820 South Church Street, Murfreesboro, TN. 37130. 615-893-2422
New APHIS Rule effective Feb 1st 2025
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2024 – In an effort to end horse soring at Tennessee Walking Horse shows, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing strengthened Horse Protection Act regulations. Soring is a cruel and inhumane practice where some owners and trainers chemically or physically irritate or burn horses to provide an accentuated gait that gives them an unfair advantage in walking horse competitions and fraudulent purchase prices at horse shows.
Walking horses are known for their naturally high gait, but to be more successful in competitions some owners and trainers use cruel methods to exaggerate a horse’s gait. These inhumane methods may cause the horse to suffer physical pain, distress, inflammation, or lameness while walking and moving.
“For far too long, some within the Tennessee Walking Horse industry have sored and abused their horses, despite the industry’s inspection process and our own enforcement efforts,” said Jenny Lester-Moffitt, Under Secretary for USDA Marking and Regulatory Programs. “This abuse must stop. Eliminating this cruel practice will help protect horses competing in these shows and level the playing field for the industry. The independent inspection process should strengthen the competition at these shows and benefit the many owners and trainers who do right by their animals.”
The stronger regulations include:
Eliminating industry self-regulation and the role of industry-backed Designated Qualified Persons as inspectors at horse shows, exhibitions, sales, and auctions. Only APHIS inspectors and independent non-APHIS-employed horse protection inspectors screened, trained, and authorized by APHIS will have inspection authority.
Prohibiting any device, method, practice, or substance applied to a horse that can cause or is associated with soring.
Prohibiting on Tennessee Walking or racking horses all action devices and non-therapeutic pads, artificial toe extensions, and wedges, as well as all substances on the extremities above the hoof, including lubricants.
Removing the scar rule from the regulations and replacing it with a more accurate description of visible dermatological changes indicative of soring.
Amending recordkeeping and reporting requirements for management at covered events to better enforce the HPA.
In 2017, APHIS withdrew the initial Horse Protection Act final rule from public inspection per a memorandum issued by the Executive Office of the President. Following a lawsuit based on that action, the agency withdrew the 2017 rule on October 30, 2023, and published a new proposed rule, receiving 8,787 comments. The new rule builds upon information we have learned since the 2017 rule was drafted. Notably, it incorporates lessons and science-based recommendations from the 2021 National Academies of Science review of the inspection program.
The Horse Protection Act is a Federal law that prohibits sored horses from participating in shows, exhibitions, sales or auctions. The Horse Protection Act also prohibits the transportation of sored horses to or from any of these events.
A copy of this rule may be viewed today, and the rule will be published in the Federal Register in the coming weeks. This rule will be effective February 1, 2025.
LIVE FROM RHBAA SPRING CELEBRATION SATURDAY
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LIVE FROM RHBAA SPRING CELEBRATION
The Celebration Fun Show picks Bradshaw, Hilley and Scrivner to judge
Celebration makes plans for Spring Fun Show; Announces Judges
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Bradshaw has been a regular at Celebration events having marked the cards at The Celebration six times. His most recent assignment was in 2022. Bradshaw also judged the Spring Fun Show in 2022 and has judged most every major show in the industry during his career.
Hilley will be judging the Spring Fun Show for the first time however he has also previously judged The Celebration. Hilley marked the cards at The Celebration in 2018 and 2020. Hilley has been in center ring at some major venues since his last Celebration role. He has judged the National Trainers’ Show, Pulaski, Columbia Spring Jubilee and Money Tree among others since 2020.
Scrivner will be considered the rookie of the panel as he will be the only one that has not previously judged The Celebration. But Scrivner is no rookie and has worked for The Celebration previously at the 2020 Spring Fun Show. His resume includes judging the National Trainers’ Show, North Carolina Championships, Columbia Spring Jubilee and Alabama Jubilee.
The Spring Fun Show will feature 72 classes across the three evening performances with an addition of two crowd favorite Pick Your Partner classes to help raise money for the legal fun. Each performance starts at 6:00PM, and the class sheet can be found here.
The Celebration will also have a sponsor party in center ring of Celebration Arena on Wednesday night. Information on sponsorship opportunities can be found here. For more information visit www.TWHNC.com or call The Celebration office at 931-684-5915.
Christmas In July selects Byard, Bobo and Zahnd to judge
Judges For Christmas In July
Thursday, April 11, 2024
The Christmas In July Show will be held July 2-4, 2024 at the Bedford County Agricultural Center in Shelbyville, TN.
This year the show is pleased to announce they have selected Chris Bobo of Shelbyville; Dean Byard of Nashville and Chris Zahnd of Jonesborough, Tennessee to handle marking the cards for the three day show. This year’s show will also be affiliated with S.H.O.W. HIO with a class sheet containing 65 classes of both walking, racking, performance and pleasure.
One special addition to this year’s event is that $500 will go to the trainer who shows the most horses.
Guests at this event will be able to enter online at www.entermywalkinghorse.com.
For more details on exciting upcoming event please contact Carol Missildine at 919-437-6597.