Purpose:
To promote the breeding of quality Morgan horses in
Alberta. The futurity is designed to
encourage Morgan Breeders and owners to select their
animals with the intention of producing top quality
conformation, and therefore, top performance horses.
The advertising done by the futurity will recognize and
bring merit to winning young horses and their
bloodstock.
Eligibility:
All horses registered with CMHA, AMHA, or BMHS,
owned or leased by members in good standing of the
AMHC can become eligible for the futurity. Proof of
registration by the time of the yearling class is
required.
Nomination of Parents:
Stallions and mares shall be nominated by January
15th of the current year. Fees are payable on
nomination, and are non-refundable.
Fees:
Fees for stallions will be $50.00. Fees for mares
will be $10.00. The fees for the parents apply for
the weanling year only. Fees to nominate weanlings,
yearlings, two-year olds, and three-year olds will
be $25.00. Payment is due February 15th of the show
year. Weanling owners can pay the stallion and mare
nominations if refused by the owners. In order to
show in the yearling division, the foal must have
been nominated in the weanling year. The same
applies to each older age group as well. If the
horse is sold, the new owner can continue
eligibility in the futurity.
If an owner has paid the dam and weanling fees, and
no foal is produced that year, the dam and weanling
fees can be carried over to the next year.
Penalty Fee: If the sire, dam, and weanling were
properly nominated in the weanling year, a missed
year can be paid for at double (2X) the normal fee.
Incentives:
$100.00 will be paid to the nominator of the sire of
the first place weanling winner, and $50.00 to the
nominator of the dam of the first place weanling
winner. These incentives are paid by the AMHC, thus
keeping the entire nomination fees paid, as payback
to the Futurity classes.
Committee:
The Futurity shall be run by a standing committee of
the AMHC to be appointed at the semi-annual meeting
of the AMHC.
Divisions:
There will be 4 divisions, being weanling, yearling,
two-year old, and three-year old. Weanlings,
yearlings, and two-year olds are to be shown
in-hand, embracing the current EC rules for
presentation of these age groups. Three-year olds
are to be shown either English pleasure or western
pleasure, using current EC rules.
There will be four years of showing, being:
1) weanlings, any sex, in-hand
2) yearlings, any sex, in-hand & yearlings, any sex,
in-hand suitable to be a western/sport horse
3) two-year olds, any sex, in-hand & two-year olds,
any sex, in-hand suitable to be a western/sport
horse
4) three-year olds, any sex, under saddle
There is no cross entering between In-hand classes
and Suitable to be In-hand classes.
Current EC rules to be used.
Vet certificates will be handled as per the rules in
the prize list of the AMHC show.
Sponsorships:
The committee is to be responsible for acquiring
sponsorships for ribbons and prizes.
Forms:
The entry fees for the Futurity classes at the AMHS
will be done on a separate form, payable to the
Futurity, sent to the Entry secretary. The Futurity
will pay the Show the regular class fee. The Show
will be responsible for the Judge, facility and
ribbons (As per the Annual General Meeting Minutes
of February 21, 2004). Post entries will be at
double the show entry fee. Closing date for the
AMHC show will apply.
Prizes:
Prizes will be made up of nomination fees,
donations, and funds received from fund raising
activities. The total of all monies received from
the stallion, mare and weanling nominations will
each year create a new four-year Futurity Prize
Fund, which will exist for four years. Total
received to have 10% removed for office,
administration fees. The remaining 90% shall be
divided in half, one half shall be paid to the
weanlings on a sliding scale, determined by the
number of horses in the class. The remaining half
is to be held in investment for future year’s
classes. Each year, 50% of the reinvested amount
will be paid to the next year’s class, and 50%
reinvested. Nomination fees plus an entry fee of
$25.00 per class will be added to this amount.
Final distribution to made in the three-year olds
division. Ribbons to be awarded to 8th place. If
there is a class with 25 or more horses entered, the
class will be split by gender. The total prize
money will be split 50/50 to each class.
The prize money for the yearling & two year old In
Hand classes will be pro-rated as per the number of
entries in each class.
Pay-out of classes:
| Entries | Distribution |
| 1 | 1st 100% |
| 2 | 1st 60%, 2nd 40% |
| 3 | 1st 50%, 2nd 30%, 3rd 20% |
| 4-8 | 1st 40%, 2nd 30%, 3rd 20%, 4th 10% |
| 9-12 | 1st 35%, 2nd 26%, 3rd 16%, 4th 11%, 5th 7%, 6th, 5% |
| 13-16 | 1st 30%, 2nd 23%, 3rd 14%, 4th 12%, 5th 10%, 6th 8%, 7th 3% |
| 17+ | 1st 29%, 2nd 21%, 3rd 13%, 4th 11%, 5th 9%, 6th 8%, 7th 6%, 8th 3% |