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how horses lose looks and locks to vandalism
00:00 am 6/28/05
George Hesselberg Wisconsin State Journal
The tail of Hemp, a 5-year-old black and white paint/ pinto horse, after vandals cut most of it Saturday night.
The tail of Hemp, a 5-year-old black and white paint/ pinto horse, after vandals cut most of it Saturday night.
It takes a specialist to vandalize a horse.
For one, a horse is a moving target.
Two, you cannot sneak up on a horse, as you can with a building, or even, carefully, a cow.
Three, it's a particularly mean thing to do, and that's what Christa Lockwood and her mother, Brenda, were especially angry and sad about Monday.
Overnight Saturday, someone stole into the Lockwoods' paddocks outside of DeForest and hacked off the mane and tail of one horse, and the tail of another.
The vandalism occurred at a crucial time, the beginning of the summer horse show circuit. For Christa Lockwood, 17, this was to be a key summer of 4-H club and open shows for her prize-winning horse, Hamp, a 5-year-old quarter horse she has raised from a colt. For Brenda Lockwood, this was to be the summer of showing her horse, Ebb, a newly acquired rare Arabian pinto, alongside her daughter on the circuit.
The appearance of a horse, including the condition and presentation - braiding, for example - of the horse's mane and tail counts in judging the animal in certain show classes. A show horse doesn't get a haircut, it gets "treated." A horse judge knows the difference and sets standards for both horse and horse owner.
00:00 am 6/28/05
George Hesselberg Wisconsin State Journal
The tail of Hemp, a 5-year-old black and white paint/ pinto horse, after vandals cut most of it Saturday night.
The tail of Hemp, a 5-year-old black and white paint/ pinto horse, after vandals cut most of it Saturday night.
It takes a specialist to vandalize a horse.
For one, a horse is a moving target.
Two, you cannot sneak up on a horse, as you can with a building, or even, carefully, a cow.
Three, it's a particularly mean thing to do, and that's what Christa Lockwood and her mother, Brenda, were especially angry and sad about Monday.
Overnight Saturday, someone stole into the Lockwoods' paddocks outside of DeForest and hacked off the mane and tail of one horse, and the tail of another.
The vandalism occurred at a crucial time, the beginning of the summer horse show circuit. For Christa Lockwood, 17, this was to be a key summer of 4-H club and open shows for her prize-winning horse, Hamp, a 5-year-old quarter horse she has raised from a colt. For Brenda Lockwood, this was to be the summer of showing her horse, Ebb, a newly acquired rare Arabian pinto, alongside her daughter on the circuit.
The appearance of a horse, including the condition and presentation - braiding, for example - of the horse's mane and tail counts in judging the animal in certain show classes. A show horse doesn't get a haircut, it gets "treated." A horse judge knows the difference and sets standards for both horse and horse owner.
