# Horse Protection Amendments
> **Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** · Final rule. · Published 2024-05-08 · Effective 2025-02-01 · 89 FR 39194
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-09469
- **Category:** plant-animal-health
- **Sub-agency:** Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 39194
- **CFR reference:** 9 CFR 11
- **Publication date:** 2024-05-08
- **Effective date:** 2025-02-01
- **USDA docket:** Docket No. APHIS-2022-0004
## Abstract

We are amending the horse protection regulations to provide that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will screen, train, and authorize qualified persons for appointment by the management of any horse show, horse exhibition, or horse sale or auction to detect and diagnose soring at such events for the purposes of enforcing the Horse Protection Act. These and other regulatory amendments will strengthen the Agency's efforts to protect horses from the cruel and inhumane practice of soring as the Act requires and by so doing eliminate unfair competition.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/08/2024-09469/horse-protection-amendments)
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