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Futurity Rules
The governing body of this futurity shall be: The Chairperson, The Treasurer, The Secretary and 2 members of the Red River Horse Breeder's board. A Futurity is a program designed to promote the young horse. It provides classes for weanlings through 3 year olds. It is a show based on a breeding program, with select sires, designed to promote and encourage the horse breeder/owner to breed the best quality horses possible by selecting stallions that compliment their mares. A program like this helps boost the market and increase the breeders' incentives for raising quality horses. It gives the breeder/owner a chance to compare their breeding choices with others. This futurity is named the Red River Valley International Select Sire Futurity. 1. Select sires are Appaloosas and Quarter Horses whose service has been donated, accepted and successfully auctioned through the RRVISSF stallion service auction each fall. It is a progressive silent auction held during the futurity show in conjunction with the Great Midwest Horse Show. The services sold are for the following year breeding season. April 1 is the deadline for donating a service. 2. Eligibility - all offspring, sired by select sires, as defined in 1, will be eligible for the futurity in their respective age and breed classes. All offspring must be registered and eligible to show in their respective breed associations. Appaloosa weanlings may show with NC papers. NOTE - solid horses with registration papers and performance permits will be eligible to show, regardless of being an outcross. Performance Permits eliminate the CPO papers. Registration papers are required for all horses shown in the futurity. 3. The date of the futurity will be announced by March 1 of each prospective year. It is held in the Fall. 4. Nomination fees are due by December 31st of the birth year of the foal, unless being shown as a weanling. If shown as a weanling, the 1st entry fee and Nomination fee are due June 1st. When the weanling nomination is paid, no other payments are needed until the year the horse is shown. Remaining entry fee is due August 1st. Any payments not postmarked by the due date will be assessed $1 per day late fee. If late fees are not paid, entry will not be allowed to show. No entries will be taken after August 15th. 5. An additional penalty will be added for horses not nominated in the year foaled. $100 for yearlings, $200 for 2 year olds and $300 for 3 year olds. This is in addition to the entry fees if shown. Click here for Nomination form.
6. Nomination, Entry Fees and Deadlines: Weanling nomination fee: $25 due June 1 of year foaled if shown. If not shown, fee is due anytime prior to Dec. 31st of year foaled. Weanling entry fee: $40 due June 1st of year foaled Second Payment: $50 due Aug. 1st of year foaled Yearling entry fee: $40 due June 1 of yearling year per class entered Second payment: $50 due Aug. 1 of yearling year per class entered 2 year old entry fee $40 due June 1 of 2 year old year per class entered Second payment: $50 due Aug. 1 of 2 year old year per class entered 3 year old entry fee $40 due June 1 of 3 year old year per class entered Second payment $50 due Aug. 1 of 3 year old year per class entered 7. No entries taken after August 15th. NO EXCEPTIONS!! 8. FUTURITY CLASSES: Weanling halter - colts and fillies Yearling halter - colts, fillies, geldings and longe line 2 year old halter - stallions, mares, and geldings 2 year old snaffle bit western pleasure 2 year old snaffle bit hunter under saddle Reining 3 year old snaffle bit western pleasure 3 year old snaffle bit hunter under saddle Reining 9. Weanling classes will be split if 16 or more nominations are paid per class. Class split will be determined based on number of horses at the show and entered to be exhibited. We will pay to 6 places, but place through 10 to calculate points towards the "Superhorse" award.
10. All late fees, nominations and entry fees in a split weanling class will be combined and divided equally unless it is an uneven split, then it will be divided accordingly. 11. All fees collected will be returned to the winning participants less an office charge not to exceed 25% of all fees collected. The six top places will be paid. 12. 10% of all futurity payback will be deducted from the exhibitors check and returned to the stallion (sire) owner. Stallion owner to be defined as that owner who donated the service that resulted in the offspring winning the payback. 13. Money will be added to the purse for all classes from the proceeds of the stallion service auction as it is available each year.
14. Added purse is divided by total paid up entries, as of August 15, with equal amounts added for each paid up entry. 15. Penalty money will go into the purse of the classes entered. If no classes are entered it will be split into the classes offered for that age group. 16. The prize money in any tied placing, will be added together and divided equally. 17. In any class that may not have 6 entrants, that portion of the purse for that class beyond the number exhibited will be distributed among those showing by the following payback table.
18. No refunds of nominations or entry fees. 19. Each breed will show in their own respective breed classes. 20. Drug testing is an option of the Futurity Committee. 21. Each class will be shown 1 time under 3 judges. When the judges cards are in, the horses will be lined up according to each judges' placing. The combined score of all 3 judges will determine the final placing. Decisions of the judges will be final. Any act of discourtesy to a judge or any official of the show on any part of the owner, rider, trainer, or groom will immediately disqualify any horse or horses with which they are associated and entry fees forfeited.
22. Each judge will alternate classes as a tie breaker judge. The tie breaker judges' scorecard will be used to break ties in each class for awards only. The prize money in the tied places will be added together and divided equally. 23. If an entry fails to appear for their class on time, the entry fee shall be forfeited. If there is a tack change, the announcer or gate person must be notified. That exhibitor will have 5 minutes, starting when the last of the other horses are in the arena. 24. The Futurity Committee reserves and retains the absolute right to determine and fully decide any issues that may arise, including any points not covered by rules of the futurity, and to make any corrections or alterations or determinations as it, in it's absolute discretion, may deem appropriate and necessary. 25. This futurity has a program called the Select Sire Futurity Super Horse Award. Points are tabulated separately for QH and App with 1 award given for each breed. A horse must show as a 3 year old to win the Super Horse Award, but doesn't need to show every year. Points will be awarded as follows: 10 pts for 1st, 9 pts for 2nd, 8 pts for 3rd, 7 pts for 4th, etc. This point system will be used no matter how many are shown in the class. The winner of each breed will receive a trophy saddle.
26. Of there are any ties for the Super Horse Award, they will be broken by the horse that has shown in the most classes in the futurity program from weanlings through their 3 year old year. 27. Sale of a nominated horse - In the event a horse nominated for this futurity is sold or transferred, the futurity nomination will remain with the horse. Information on the eligibility to this futurity is the responsibility of the seller. Class Rules HALTER CLASSES
YEARLING LONGE LINE
SNAFFLE BIT WESTERN PLEASURE SNAFFLE BIT HUNTER UNDER SADDLE - ENGLISH Reining
These rules dated 02/03/2007 supersede all previous published rules of the Red River Valley International Select Sire Futurity and may be altered as necessary by the sponsoring organization, the Red River Horse Breeders Association, Inc.
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