WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES FOR THE SWEEPSTAKES PROGRAM?
• Encourage the breeding, increase the value and stimulate the marketability of Arabian, Half-Arabian and Anglo-Arabian horses for all levels of competition. • Increase interest and participation in the Sweepstakes Program, from those who compete at the local level to those striving to breed a national champion. • Create an all-inclusive Breeders Incentive that delivers direct and continuing returns to participating breeders giving owners an incentive to nominate all horses into the Breeders Sweepstakes Program. • Reward Sweepstakes participants at our highest level of competitions. • Ensure funds for future payouts and long-term viability. • Make the program easily adjustable to best serve the needs of the participants. • Design a program that will pay out approximately $10.00 per point to exhibitors enrolled in the Points Program. • Encourage the AHA Board to return all Sweepstakes Trust Fund interest that exceeds the program costs to the Program by 2010.
• New program is simple • Increase the level of participation in the program as well as create an incentive to increase breeding and showing participation • Encourage the breeding, increase the value and stimulate the marketability of Arabian, Half-Arabian and Anglo-Arabian horses for all levels of competition • Increase interest and participation in the Sweepstakes Program, from those who compete at the local level to those striving to breed a National Champion • Reward breeders, who are at the core of our industry • Ensure funds for future payouts and long-term viability Q. WHY HAVE THE AMATEUR CLASSES BEEN ELIMINATED FROM ALLOCATED PAYOUT? A. The Sweepstakes Commission has revamped the program to return it to its original intent, a breeding program, and reward the breeders who are the core of our industry. The dollar amounts offered in each category are significant enough to be the incentive breeders need to nominate their foals. It is definitely the intent of the Arabian Breeders S
