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Suspect in soring case is arrested

The T-G has confirmed that Barney Davis, 38, is now being held in Chattanooga for an alleged "supervised release violation from an earlier charge," according to Paul Salayko, a deputy U.S. marshal who handles public affairs.

A source told the T-G Davis was allegedly training horses which violated the conditions of his release.

He had been free on a $20,000 unsecured bond since the original indictments were handed down. But as part of the conditions of his release, Davis was to "avoid contact with horses owned by other people," which included refraining from training said horses.

He also was to arrange to have the horses he did not own to be cared for by someone else, but he could care and feed his own animals, court documents in the case said.

A press release from the Department of Justice stated that Davis was ordered detained by U.S. Magistrate Judge Bill Carter after he voluntarily surrendered his pre-trial bond. A revocation hearing has been rescheduled for Aug. 11 and his trial is currently set for Oct. 18.

Earlier this week, a Sealed Petition and Order was entered on the electronic filing system for the U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Tennessee, but the documents were not accessible to the public. However, shortly thereafter, the T-G began to receive unconfirmed reports of Davis' arrest.

Davis, along with other suspects, was indicted by a federal grand jury in March for allegedly soring horses and falsifying entry forms and other related paperwork. In April he was also charged with 13 counts of wire fraud, one count of wire fraud conspiracy and 12 counts of money laundering.

The indictment alleges that from 2002 to October 2010, Davis, and others conspired to sore the horses and falsify documents. The purpose of the alleged conspiracy was to sore horses without being detected by the USDA and Designated Qualified Persons (DQP) so that additional customers would pay Davis to board and train their horses at his barn.

DQPs are inspectors who check horses competing in shows for evidence of soring.

He allegedly entered spotted saddle horses he was paid to train at the SSHBEA Fall Show in Shelbyville.

The indictment also alleges that an endorsed winnings check from SSHBEA was deposited into Davis' bank account.

Mac Motes, president of the Spotted Saddle Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors Association (SSHBEA) said that Davis was not a member of their association and that they have no affiliation with him. Also Davis is not a member of the Walking Horse Trainers' Association.

How To Saddle A Horse – How To Fasten A Western Saddle – Cowgirl Blog

This might be one of the more obvious posts on this blog, leaving some of my readers wondering about my credibility as a cowgirl, if I have to explain something so elementary. But one of my goals with my writing is to provide a resource for beginner horse lovers, and we all start at the same square one, so in this post I’m filling in one of those first blanks: how to saddle a horse properly. If you’ve never done it before, it’s not something you want to guess about, as saddling the wrong way can result in a bad accident and possible injuries. These step by step photos will show you what to do and what not to do when you’re wanting to learn how to put a saddle on a horse.

Our model here is my good old Quarter Horse Rudy, whom I grew up with. He is twenty-three years old now, but still looking good and ever his sweet old self. While some of these instructions may seem over-simplified, I do want to cover everything in order to provide the best education I can for someone who has never saddled a horse before. First of all, you want to start with a clean horse. That may go without saying, but horses naturally collect mud, hay, burrs, and other strange things in their coats, and throwing a saddle on top of a sandburr can cause a big wreck. I admit to tossing saddles on unbrushed horses a few times in my life, but I always at least run my arm across the horse’s back to check for anything ouchy, and always under the belly right behind the forelegs where the cinch will fit. That’s probably the most uncomfortable place for dirt on a horse, because a tight cinch will rub and irritate the horse if there’s mud or anything matted in the horse’s hair there. So check the horse over at the very least, and it’s much more kind to give him a thorough grooming before you saddle up.

Next, put the saddle pad on and position it properly. The saddle blanket we put on Rudy here looks a little forward at the moment, but when you get the saddle up there too, it inevitably will slide back. So start with it at least covering the horse’s withers (the bump at the front of the horse’s back) and you should look at the horse’s front leg to line it up—you want the front of the saddle pad to be ahead of where the cinch will fit, and the cinch fits right behind the horse’s front legs. So place your saddle pad just like this—a typical beginner’s mistake is to put it way too far back.

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