"Members of the Kentucky Walking Horse Association have ousted from their board a controversial former president and vice president who stepped down after the state breeders' incentive fund began scrutinizing the organization last fall," reports Janet Patton of the Lexington Herald-Leader. There is concern that funds may have been given to breeders who had violated the Horse Protection Act.
Earl Rogers Jr., former president of the KWHA, and Gary Oliver, former vice president, deny that any money from the breeders' incentive fund went to violators of the act, "but the Herald-Leader and state investigations found 12 to 15 payments to violators, prompting a new Racing Commission regulation to explicitly prohibit such payments in the future," writes Patton, in the latest of a series of stories she has done on the subject. (Read more)
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