{"id":2645,"date":"2009-10-06T00:31:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2009-10-06T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T04:08:06","slug":"it-pays-to-be-part-of-the-american-quarter-horse-incentive-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/it-pays-to-be-part-of-the-american-quarter-horse-incentive-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"It Pays To Be Part of the American Quarter Horse Incentive Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Quarter Horse Journal, October 5, 2009<\/em> \u2013 Invest. Perform. Earn. It\u2019s that simple when it comes to participating in the AQHA Incentive Fund.\u00a0

In a nutshell, the Incentive Fund was created as a way to reward and encourage AQHA members for showing their American Quarter Horses. If you nominate your American Quarter Horse stallion to the AQHA Incentive Fund by October 31, 2009, you\u2019ll be eligible to win a John Deere trimmer.

Stallions are enrolled on an annual basis for each breeding season, making their offspring eligible to be enrolled as well. The available money in the Incentive Fund is divided by the number of points earned by the enrolled horses in the open and amateur divisions of AQHA competition throughout the year, making each point worth a certain amount of money. The point value is then multiplied by the number of points earned by the horse to determine the accumulated amount for the year.

The 2008 show season saw a record-high in total points \u2013 147,864 \u2013 earned by nominated horses, which is 10,066 more points than in 2007. The point value in 2008 was $22.35, which resulted in a 2008 payout of $3,305,489.51.

\u201cI tell all of my customers that if they\u2019re raising horses that will compete in AQHA shows, they\u2019ve got to enroll them in the AQHA Incentive Fund. A majority of buyers won\u2019t even look at show horses that aren\u2019t in the Incentive Fund. That\u2019s how important it is to the industry,\u201d said Mike Jennings of Professional Auction Services in Leesburg, Virginia.

The earnings for each horse are split between the current owner when points were earned, the stallion\u2019s nominator the year of the foal\u2019s conception and the foal\u2019s nominator in an 80-10-10 percent split. Currently, there are 351,587 horses enrolled in the fund, and $63,016,263.69 has been paid out since the first checks were written in 1986.

If your stallion is enrolled in the Incentive Fund, you\u2019ll receive the following benefits:
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Use of the AQHA Incentive Fund logo on all of your advertising
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10 percent of all money earned by your stallion\u2019s foals
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Premium advertising options on\u00a0www.aqha.com<\/em><\/a> for your stallion
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Added exposure for your business online
\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An investment that pays off

Stallions available for breeding must be nominated to the AQHA Incentive Fund Program by November 30, prior to the breeding season the nomination is for, in order to make foals conceived during that year eligible for participation in the program.

Learn more about the Incentive Fund at\u00a0www.aqha.com\/showing\/awards\/incentivefund<\/em><\/a> or call (806) 376-4811. It\u2019s the longest-running and most affordable way to earn money in the show arena!

Read about one horse \u2013 Harley D Zip \u2013 that has benefited from the AQHA Incentive Fund, by checking out \u201cRevving Up the Returns\u201d in the April 2009 issue of The American Quarter Horse Journal.

AQHA news and information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information on\u00a0The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal<\/em> or\u00a0America\u2019s Horse<\/em>, visit\u00a0www.aqha.com\/magazines<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Quarter Horse Journal, October 5, 2009 \u2013 Invest. Perform. Earn. It\u2019s that simple when it comes to participating in the AQHA Incentive Fund.\u00a0In a nutshell, the Incentive Fund was created as a way to reward and encourage AQHA members for showing their American Quarter Horses. If you nominate your American Quarter Horse stallion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqha","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2648,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}