{"id":2839,"date":"2009-12-23T01:41:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T18:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2010-08-05T05:22:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T22:22:20","slug":"ranch-sorting-and-team-penning-rule-changes-take-effect-january-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/ranch-sorting-and-team-penning-rule-changes-take-effect-january-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranch Sorting and Team Penning Rule Changes Take Effect January 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/aqha_logo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3708\" title=\"aqha_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/aqha_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a>The American Quarter Horse Journal, December 21, 2009 \u2013 <\/em>New American Quarter Horse competition rules will be in effect with the New Year. Several rule changes involve team penning and ranch sorting, two of AQHA\u2019s most popular classes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cAt AQHA, nothing is more paramount than ensuring the welfare of the American Quarter Horse during competition,\u201d said Don Treadway Jr., AQHA executive vice president. \u201cFor more than 40 years, AQHA\u2019s welfare and competition policies have been set in place to protect the horse, and for the past year we have spent a lot of time reviewing and fine-tuning those policies within AQHA\u2019s own rules and in discussions with all of our alliance partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Horses competing in team penning and ranch sorting may continue to be ridden with a snaffle bit or hackamore no matter the age of the horse. Riders using a snaffle bit or hackamore in team penning or ranch sorting may use two hands on the reins. Beginning January 1, 2010, a curb bit may be used on any horse regardless of age in team penning and ranch sorting, but when using a curb bit, the horse must be ridden one-handed. This rule change can be found in the AQHA Official Handbook as Rule 455 (a) (10) for team penning and Rule 456 (q) for ranch sorting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Language has been added throughout the 2010 handbook to make clear AQHA\u2019s commitment to the welfare of American Quarter Horses. Excessive use of a whip, rope, crop, bat or reins anywhere on the horse will result in a no time for team penning and ranch sorting competitors at AQHA-sanctioned events. This new rule applies to other classes as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These and other rule changes can be found in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/list.aqha.net\/t\/45399\/1858987\/2210\/0\/\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">AQHA Handbook of Rules and\u00a0Regulations<\/span><\/a> posted at\u00a0<em>aqha.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"P38\" style=\"text-align: left; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000;\">AQHA news and information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information on\u00a0<em>The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal<\/em> or\u00a0<em>America\u2019s Horse<\/em>, visit\u00a0<a id=\"a27\" href=\"http:\/\/list.aqha.net\/t\/45399\/1858987\/69\/0\/\"><em>www.aqha.com\/magazines<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Quarter Horse Journal, December 21, 2009 \u2013 New American Quarter Horse competition rules will be in effect with the New Year. Several rule changes involve team penning and ranch sorting, two of AQHA\u2019s most popular classes. \u201cAt AQHA, nothing is more paramount than ensuring the welfare of the American Quarter Horse during competition,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/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-2839","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\/2839","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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}