The Horse that Wouldn't Trot
A Life with Tennessee WalkingHorses: Lessons Learned and Memories Shared
By Rose Miller
 
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Rose Miller shares a powerful story of human and equine interaction which transcends the usual relationship of human and animal bond. The Horse That Wouldn’t Trot closely relates a spiritual dimension that existed between her and her beloved Tennessee Walking Horses. Rose has dealt with much pain as a horse owner, mom, and friend. Yet each setback is forwarded by a new human or equine acquaintance and the will to share and love an amazing life. This book is a well written reflection of a real person’s life that is both revealing and inspirational. A horse lovers must read.  

~ Dr. Dave Whitaker, Director of the Horse Program at Middle Tennessee State University ~

WELCOME!

   

                                                                  2009 Rose and Praise Hallelujah 21 years old

In my childhood I lived on a farm in northern Pennsylvania adjacent to the Tioga National Forest. Dad and Mom were schoolteachers, but my sister, Linda, and I had a menagerie of animals to love including a pet Jersey cow, Buttercup who thought she was a dog, or maybe a person, our prize rooster, Tut Tut who wore baby clothes and rode in a doll carriage, and finally Smokey and Sugarfoot, our beloved horses.

I went to grade school in a one room country school and high school in Westfield, PA, where Dad and Mom taught about 20 miles from our hill top farm. When I was 18, I attended one year at National Chiropractic College in Chicago with my fiancé. I liked the schooling, but hated the city of Chicago with a passion. It was no place for this country girl!

I married Hal when I was 19 and we moved to Indiana. Hal was from a Kansas farmstead and soon we moved to a small twenty acre farm near Middlebury, Indiana. We brought Buttercup from Pennsylvania for our milk cow, had some chickens, added 2 children, Sharon and Roger to our family and all was delightful until a tornado swiped all away except for our human family. I was devastated and buried my tremendous, deep seated love for God’s animal creatures. In a nutshell, I couldn’t fathom loosing them again. Hal heard no more about farms and animals.

But apparently God had a plan for my life which would encompass many animals, especially horses, my special love. When Sharon was 10 years old, she was adamant she had to have a horse. We got one and thus the story begins anew. Moving to a 50 acre farm near Goshen, Indiana, I started breeding Half-Arabian horses, and when I found I couldn’t ride their spirited trots, Tennessee Walking Horses.

In this new world I became a Tennessee Walking Horse horse breeder, trainer, show competitor, and judge. Thirty-three years later I retired and began writing about my horse life. I began as an innocent and pretty ignorant horse lover but later became a top competitor in my field. I have written horse stories and articles for The Voice, NWHA News, and Sound Advice—Tennessee Walking Horse publications.

I wrote my book primarily to entertain with Tennessee Walking Horse stories as there are horse lovers galore and I had an abundance of true equine anecdotes, but as The Horse That Wouldn’t Trot developed, I discovered I had a real message to share. Tennessee Walking Horses, especially the “Big-Lick show horse are subject to a training method called soring. It has been a deep rooted and long lived method that is actually animal abuse.

Soring is so cruel that in 1970, the US Congress passed the Horse Protection Act, giving the USDA authority to inspect horses in transport to and at Tennessee Walking Horse shows, sales and exhibitions for signs of soring, and prosecute individuals found in violation of the Act. However, enforcement of state and federal anti-soring laws has proven difficult, allowing the practice to persist on a widespread basis.         

Educating more of the horse loving public to this blatant disregard for the Tennessee Walking Horse, and prevailing upon them to take action such as writing their congressmen to fund more money for USDA pre-show inspections, contribute to “Sound” horse groups such as NWHA www.nwha.com and FOSH www.fosh.info , which promotes and affiliates horse shows with zero tolerance for soring, and just spreading the word about the inhumane training methods of this beautiful and gentle horse, can help put an end to soring.

Please enjoy these true stories about my amazing Tennessee Walking Horses!

Sincerely,

Rose Miller

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Praise Hallelujah by Prides Hallelujah  ---------------->

        1988 to ....

1990 Two Year Old Pleasure World Champion

1993 International  Amateur Three Gait Plantation Grand Champion

1995 International Amateur Owned and Trained Plantation Grand Champion

2003 NWHA Futurity High Point Stallion

 

 

 

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                                       1980 to 2004                

                1986 TWHBEA Adult Trail High Point Champion

               1986 TWHBEA Adult Versatility Champion

                1987 TWHBEA Adult Over Fences High Point                  

                1988 TWHBEA Adult Supreme Versatility Champion

 

 

                                        

 

 

 

                                   

 

 

 

                                 Delight's Headman by Sun's Delight D------->      

                             1970 to 1998

                                                          New Acre Farm   Goshen, Indiana

                                               

-All truth passes through three stages, first it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.   Arthur Schopenhauser (1788-1860)

 

 

 

 

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