FEI reining

[spotnnotfarm]

@TheHunterKid90

Just to clarify…in addition to 3 year old futurities, we now also have 4 year old, red shirt classes for 4 year olds not shown as 3 year olds.
Derbies are 4,5 AND 6 and now many shows are including 7 year olds in their derbies. Casey Deary was just commenting that he’s only showing two 3 year olds here in OKC because the owners have been really great at understanding that their 3 year olds could be bad ass 4 year olds and also do derbies til 7 so they aren’t even showing at the big futurity.
After they age out of Derbies, their are 7 up or Maturity events. And all these classes are in addition to all the category 1 ancillary classes and affiliate classes offered and 99.9% of shows which are classified according to horse earnings or rider earnings.
Your typical reining is not a 3 year old event (although that’s our highlighted event) it’s a bunch of middle age non pros with their older horses having fun and enjoying themselves. The average NRHA member is a 45 year old non pro female who makes about 90,000. It’s not millionaires with 250,000 futurity horses.

Agree…I was addressing a comment on premiere events. Thank you for adding to it.

[TPO]

Deleted, not worth it

[Palm_Beach]

@Bluey

I would not be so quick to assume that all kinds of associations and registries don’t have plenty of all manners of data and information and have conducted studies.
We may not know about them without being members and getting releases from them and some of that may be considered proprietary information and not released to the public.

Looking from the outside and assuming what is there or not and being critical of how they are conducting business can be far off the mark.

Usually studies get published somewhere, and most associations don’t have the financial capacity to fund studies.

[Bluey]

@Palm Beach

Usually studies get published somewhere, and most associations don’t have the financial capacity to fund studies.

I know JC has funded some:

https://www.grayson-jockeyclub.org

So has the AQHA:

https://www.aqha.com/2016-2017-equine-research-grants

https://aqhfoundation.smapply.io/pro…search_grants/

[bugsynskeeter]

There is a lack of large, premier events for horses aged 8 & up. With the Derby years being increased to 4-7 (previous 4-6), this will help increase that market. While there are no premier events for aged horses (WEG is only every 4 years and there is no reining in the Olympics), there is a large market for older horses in youth, non pro, and rookie/green events. We don’t throw them out just cause they get older. Many “aged out” horses are also moving into the ranch riding.

[Bluey]

@bugsynskeeter

There is a lack of large, premier events for horses aged 8 & up. With the Derby years being increased to 4-7 (previous 4-6), this will help increase that market. While there are no premier events for aged horses (WEG is only every 4 years and there is no reining in the Olympics), there is a large market for older horses in youth, non pro, and rookie/green events. We don’t throw them out just cause they get older. Many “aged out” horses are also moving into the ranch riding.

Don’t forget High Point from regional associations.

Many show in the regular classes at different levels to win those awards and trophies.
There older horses shine.

[RainWeasley]

@bugsynskeeter

There is a lack of large, premier events for horses aged 8 & up. With the Derby years being increased to 4-7 (previous 4-6), this will help increase that market. While there are no premier events for aged horses (WEG is only every 4 years and there is no reining in the Olympics), there is a large market for older horses in youth, non pro, and rookie/green events. We don’t throw them out just cause they get older. Many “aged out” horses are also moving into the ranch riding.

I was reading this and was like, who said reining is in the Olympics? Then realized I did :lol: whoops, that was a brain fart, I edited that little bit out.

[bugsynskeeter]

@RainWeasley

I was reading this and was like, who said reining is in the Olympics? Then realized I did :lol: whoops, that was a brain fart, I edited that little bit out.

I think someone else mentioned it also.