The first world grand champion named in 1939 was a flat-shod horse called Strolling Jim, whose graceful natural gait made walking horses famous long before the ugly "big lick" became a disgraceful ...

Flat-foot walk. The Tennessee Walking Horse can reach 4 to 8 miles per hour while performing this fast, square gait. The flat foot walk has four beats, as each hoof touches the ground separately.

All other show divisions of the Tennessee walking horse are untouched. The bill also increases penalties for soring violations. For 15 years, Friends of Sound Horses has searched for solutions to ...

In Shelbyville, Tenn., the Tennessee walking horse is an icon and a way of life. For 10 nights in August, thousands of fans cheer from their box seats as well-manicured horses prance around a dirt ...

The reason fewer Tennessee walking horses will grace the fields of Rockland Farm near Westminster this year has to do with farm owner Andrew J. Shaw waking up one morning in 1989 with blurred ...