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DescriptionXray-USDA.gif	English: X-Ray image of a "performance package" on a Tennessee Walking Horse, showing shoe, "stacks"- the multiple pads, multiple extra nails placed in pads to add weight and possibly pressure (known as "pressure soring" and band across hoof to hold it all on.
Date	19 March 2013, 07:59:43
Source	USDA http://www.chattanoogan.com/2012/7/28/231181/Roy-Exum-Horse-Abuse-Just-Dial-911.aspx and http://atwork.avma.org/2011/11/09/progress-on-soring-and-kudos-to-usda/
Author	United States Department of Agriculture

Source viewed: http://atwork.avma.org/2011/11/09/progress-on-soring-and-kudos-to-usda/

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