All About the AQHA Novice Championships
2012 AQHA Novice Championship Shows
The AQHA Western Novice Championship Show will be held October 5-7, 2012, at the South Point Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and the AQHA Eastern Novice Championship Show is October 5-7, 2012, at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Classes Offered in 2012
Novice amateur and Novice youth competitors may qualify for the Novice championships in the following classes:
- Halter: yearling, two-year-old, three-year-old, aged and performance halter geldings and mares
- Showmanship
- Western Horsemanship
- Hunt Seat Equitation
- Western Pleasure
- Hunter Under Saddle
- Trail
- Western Riding
- Reining
- Barrel Racing
- Pole Bending
- Stake Race
Ways to Qualify
Several opportunities exist for Novice competitors to qualify for the Novice Championship Show.
- A top-10 placing at an AQHA regional championship show in one of the above-listed Novice classes
- To show at 20 AQHA shows throughout the year throughout the national qualifying period of May 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012
- Ohio In-State Qualifying:
- Qualifying Period: Saturday and Sunday shows only of the Southern Ohio Quarter Horse Association-sponsored Winter Circuit in March through June 30 inclusive.
- The point system for selection of exhibitors to the Novice championship shows will be 30 points maximum awarded to each class.
- Points will be awarded on the basis of one point for each horse the exhibitor defeats plus one point for the exhibitor up to nine places.
- The person’s best 10 shows in the qualifying period will count, subject to the requirements of placing in a minimum of three shows and accumulating at least 10 points in the qualifying period.
- In the case of all ties involving exhibitors for the Novice Cchampionship Shows, calculate additional shows beyond 10, one at a time until the tie is broken.
- If a tie still exists with respect to a particular class, the age factor will determine the representative, first by show age, and then, if necessary, by actual calendar age, with the older exhibitor to be chosen.
- OQHA will submit the top-three point earning exhibitors in each of the qualifying novice classes to AQHA by August 1, 2012.
- If any of the top-three point earning exhibitors is nationally or regionally qualified, the next exhibitor in the state point standings that has met all requirements would be eligible.
- Exhibitors must be in good standing with OQHA.
- Exhibitors must reside in Ohio.
- Points will be on a one-horse, one-exhibitor basis.
For more information, visit www.aqha.com.
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